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Chapter 49

Carl cackled. “Jealous?”

“Yeah, maybe.” Garry shrugged. “Okay, probably. I like this guy—” he rested one hand on Wylie’s thigh, “—even if he is being idiotic right now.”

Covering Garry’s hand with his own, Wylie asked, “Do you have a better idea?”

“I wish to hell I did. Even with Kingman’s setting up watches on the homes of all the killer’s potential victims, all the bastard has to do is grab one of them when they have to go to work, or shopping, or whatever. By the time someone reports them missing it’ll be too late.”

“Exactly. What I’m planning should refocus him on me. He’s not going to take the chance that the whole thing isn’t drunken bravado because I’m looking for attention.”

“He has a point, Garry,” Carl said. “I have a question, though. How does this silent alarm thing work?”

“When an entrance is breached, the system will send a message to whatever phones I’ve programmed into it,” Wylie replied. “In this case it’ll be mine and Kingman’s.”