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Alec stopped walking, tugging her back toward hiel, I’m so sorry” He cupped her cheek with his hand, his dark brown eyes full of sympathy “She just vanished? Did she run away, or?”

Angelina shook her head “She went to America to model—she was so excited about it But from the ain”

Alec saw Angelina safely ho furiously He performed a quick electronic sweep as soon as he entered the privacy of his apartelina Mateja,” he said abruptly “Lieutenant Mateja Queen’s security detail”

“What about her?”

“She had a cousin who disappeared roughly eight years ago A cousin who supposedly went to the US to ain”

McKinnon cursed softly,has been going on for that long?”

“I don’t know, but I’ to find out Can you see what you can uncover on the cousin?”

“You got a name?”

“Nope I don’t even know if she has the saelina All I know is she was sixteen when she vanished, so she’d be around twenty-four now”

“I’m on it I’ll let you knohat I learn”

“Thanks And McKinnon?”

“Yeah?”

“I didn’t tell Angelina anything I could have puent, too savvy I didn’t want to raise her suspicions”

“As”

Alec bristled “What the hell does that mean?”

McKinnon laughed, not unkindly “Nothing Nothing at all”