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anything here either. All four of us went out at some time or another. There is no sign of him. I don’t know if that is scarier than if we knew he was around.” Lexi shivered and Noah went over and wrapped her in his arms.
    “We’ll get him, love. He can’t hide forever.” He kissed the top of her head.
    “Anyone have any ideas on what we should do next? Does anyone have any events they need to attend in the next month?” Jackson asked.
    Lexi walked over to the counter and picked up an invitation. “This just came in the mail today. It’s a Halloween fundraiser. It came for Noah and me, and since you all have been out there maybe it is time for us to make an appearance.”
    “Oh, hell no. No way in hell I’m letting my pregnant wife out there so some mad man can get to her. Next idea.”
    “Come on, Noah. You know I’ll be—”
    “Don’t you say fine. No. Not. Going. To. Happen.”
    “Fine.” Lexi just smiled when Noah growled at her. “Come on. We’ve got security all over the place, even if we can’t see them. If it would make you feel better, I could wear a tracking device.”
    “No.” Noah folded his arms across his chest.
    “Come on. It’s for a good cause.” She waved the invitation under his nose so he’d see the children.
    “Hey, you guys could always just show up for a little bit and then skip out,” Evie added.
    “See, even Evie thinks it’s a good idea. Come on. You’ve already made a large donation and they want to give you an award, so you need to go to make a speech.” Lexi leaned into him and batted her eyelashes at him. “Come on. It’ll be fun.”
    “Yeah, it’ll be fun wondering where psycho Jeremy is and worrying about you the whole time. No.”
    Kat cleared her throat and waited for everyone to look at her. “I think it’s a good idea.” She simply held up a hand to stop all the protests and waited until they were done before she continued. “Have you seen the old Hitchcock movie starring Cary Grant? To Catch a Thief ? In order to catch the person who was impersonating him, he went to a masquerade ball and once everyone knew he was there, he went up to the room and someone changed places with him. I could take Lexi’s place. That way you wouldn’t have to worry about her.”
    “And put yourself in danger. This would be a perfect opportunity for Jeremy to come out. We wouldn’t know which mask he was behind.” Jackson stood up and started to pace the room.
    “Exactly, and as I said, then we wouldn’t have to worry about Lexi.” Kat folded her arms across her chest.
    Noah stood up and squinted his eyes at Jackson. “So are you saying you’d rather have Lexi in danger than Kat?”
    Jackson shook his head. “Damn it. No, that is not what I meant. I don’t want any of them in danger.”
    “We all agreed we would do this in order to catch Jeremy. We can’t go back now,” Anthony stated.
    “I know we did.” Jackson shrugged, “This just seems like too big an opportunity for Jeremy to do something.”
    “We’re at the point when we need to do something big. He’s been hiding for too long. We’ve got to put an end to this once and for all,” Anthony said.
    “You’re right.” Jackson sat down heavily next to Lexi and put his arm around her. “Sorry Lex, you know I love you.”
    “I know jerk face. I love you, too.”
    Evie rolled her eyes, “Can we get back to business?”
    Jackson jumped up off the couch and grabbed her in a bear hug, “Oh, are we feeling a bit jealous?” He started giving her loud smacking kisses on the side of her face. “I love you, too.”
    “Blah! Stop, you ass wipe!” She tried to stomp on his foot.
    “Kids, could we please get back to business,” Anthony said dryly.
    “Yes, let’s.” With one last elbow into her brother’s stomach, she walked over and sat down next to Anthony. “So it’s decided. Kat will take Lexi’s place. You going to be okay with that, Noah?”
    “Yes, that will be fine.”
    “I’ll