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Derek slapped him on the shoulder and Steve winced from the blow he’d taken there but didn’t say anything. “We all can be idiots when it comes to the women we care about.”

Steve heard a muttered “Amen” out of Andrea.

“Andrea, will you take some food and water in to them? Make sure Rosalyn is okay? I don’t want to disrupt their progress by going in there myself.”

“Sure. That’s a good idea. I’m sure she’ll appreciate your thoughtfulness, Steve.”

He shook his head. “No, don’t say it’s from me. Just make sure she has what she needs.”

Steve wasn’t sure Rosalyn was ever going to want to talk to him again after how he’d treated her. All he could do now was catch the psycho trying to harm them both.

Steve would do whatever it took to keep Rosalyn and their baby safe. And would pray she would give him another chance.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

They believed her. She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened, but Rosalyn knew Agents Hatton and Han believed her.

The gorgeous blonde who’d first approached her in the offices before Steve stopped her came into the room. She had a tray of food—some soup and crackers—and water and coffee.

“We thought you might want something to eat. And Steve mentioned you like coffee.”

“Steve sent you in here with food and drink? I thought he wanted me thrown under the jail.”

The woman set the tray down in front of Rosalyn, then went to stand beside Brandon’s chair. He hooked a casual arm around her hips. What a striking couple those two made.

She smiled gently at Rosalyn. “Sometimes it’s difficult to see things that are right in front of you when there are feelings involved. I’m sure that’s true for Steve.”

“I think Steve made it quite obvious he has no feelings for me when he arrested me a few hours ago.”

The woman smiled. “Sometimes men are a little bit slower in recognizing their own feelings.” The woman looked over at Brandon and a moment of tenderness passed between them. Obviously at some point Brandon had been a little slow in recognizing his feelings for the woman. Although obviously not anymore.

“I’m Andrea Gordon, by the way.” Andrea looked back up at Rosalyn. “And just for the record, you are not under arrest. You’re free to leave at any time, although we would very much like you to stay so we can continue working on the case with you.”

“Does Steve Drackett know I’m free to go?”

Andrea nodded. “He’s the one who gave the word.”

Rosalyn didn’t know what to make of that, so she just started eating her food.

The other three agents began looking at the papers on the table.

“Steve found two transmitters on Rosalyn’s personal effects. One was on a sweater, one on her bag,” Jon said and turned his attention to her. “He found those after the fire at the hotel, right?”

Rosalyn nodded. “While we were at the hospital, I think.”

“And you went immediately to the superstore and changed out of everything?”

“Yes, the only thing I took with me out of that store that I had brought in was this notebook.” She pointed at the one on the table.

Jon looked through it. “It’s highly unlikely that there’s any sort of transmitter in here, but let’s get it scanned just in case.” He walked out of the room with it.

Brandon sat back in his chair, taking a cracker Rosalyn offered him from her tray. “Let’s say he got the transmitters on you at the very beginning. That he broke into your house and put one on every piece of clothing you had. That would be excessive and expensive, but this is obviously no garden-variety stalker we’re dealing with here.”

“That’s how he followed you for the first six months. He knew where you were and could show up there,” Andrea continued.

Jon walked back into the room. “Derek’s going to take the notebook over to Molly in the lab.”

“We’re trying to figure out the transmitter pattern,” Brandon told him. “I’m running with the possibility that he put trackers on everything she owned at the beginning.”

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