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I loved you then the same as I love you now.” He took the risk, reaching for her. Framing her face, he hung on to her for dear life as though this was his last chance to make up for the past.

In truth, it was. Del Howe was dead. Tad Marrow was in custody. There was only Remi now. “You were more to me than the sheriff who hired me to work the investigation, just as you’re more to me than my chief deputy now. You’re everything I’m not, and everything I didn’t know I needed in my life. You’re confident, intelligent as hell, and more dangerous than anyone I’ve ever known because you don’t rely on anyone but yourself. Except when you’re getting ready to pass out from sheer exhaustion.”

Her gaze narrowed on his.

“My point is, I need you, Sheriff. I need you to keep me balanced when obsession for justice gets out of control. I need you to be the example I look up to when I’m too deep into a case,” he said. “I just need...you.”

Her smile filled the room and rocketed his pulse into overdrive, and suddenly the pain had lost its grip. Her gaze brightened as she stepped closer to him. She reached into her pants’ pocket and extracted something metallic and engraved. “Then I guess I can give you this.”

His badge? Confusion warped through him and he nearly gave in to the urge to back away if it hadn’t been for the addictive sensation of having her close. “I’m not a deputy anymore. You—”

“Didn’t have time to file the paperwork between learning the man I fell in love with had used me and trying to keep him from dying in the middle of the woods at the hands of a psychopath we’d created together.” She reached for his hand, turned it over and set the heavy metal in the center of his palm. Curling his fingers around the steel, Remi raised her gaze to his. “I didn’t leave Delaware because of you, Dylan. If anything, you were the one person who made my choice all the more difficult. But I couldn’t face staying in the same county I’d failed. And I didn’t want to drag you down with me.”

“I know.” He curled his fingers around the symbol that had done more than given them each careers. It had set them on an undeniable course as friends, teammates, partners, and he’d never take this bond between them for granted again. Her words slowly registered through the last remnants of sedative and pain medication he’d needed during surgery. “Wait. I’m the man you fell in love with, right? We’re not talking about Reed or Foster here.”

“Nothing gets past you, Deputy Cove.” She pressed her mouth to his, entangling her arms around his neck as though trying to make them one, and a backdraft of heat burned through the numbness clinging to his muscles. “You’re going to wish the painkillers lasted longer after we’re discharged from this place.”

He deepened the kiss, healing the hollow ache in his chest that’d widened since he’d left her in that safe house.

And this time, the darkness couldn’t grab hold.

This time, Remi had positioned herself between him and the void of guilt until he hardly recognized the man standing in front of her.

He’d made a mistake by not listening to Tad Marrow three years ago and failed to catch the killer responsible, but focusing on the past had been how he’d lost Remi in the first place. It was time to build the future. With the team. With her. “Believe me, Sheriff, I already do.”

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ISBN-13: 9781488072765

The Suspect

Copyright © 2021 by Natascha Jaffa

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“We’re onto him,” Jax said, grinning.

“There’s just one problem,” Keara told him.

“What? That we probably haven’t found everything?” There was one time gap big enough that they’d agreed there was probably at least one more connected crime. “I’m sure another one will surface eventually.”

“Not that,” Keara said. “Every single one of these cases is in a different jurisdiction. Hell, every case is in a different state.”

“Okay, but—”

“Jax, he set off this bomb in Luna, left behind this symbol. This pattern suggests he commits one crime and then leaves. He’s probably already gone.”

He stared back at her, his grin slowly fading.

Beside her, Patches whined and nudged her leg.

They’d found the criminal’s trail, but had it already gone cold here?

Boom!

A sound like thunder directly overhead exploded. Then the silence following the loud noise was replaced by screaming.

A special thanks to everyone at Harlequin for helping me bring my K-9 Alaska series to life, especially my editor, Denise Zaza, assistant editor Connolly Bottum for managing all the details and publicist Lisa Wray for