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Her circumstances, who she was…it all made a normal relationship nearly impossible. When security required her to disappear, the friendships could not continue. Contacts had to be broken.
    She would be glad when she was able to forget tonight. She turned off lights in the kitchen. At the security pad, she activated zones for the ground floor and headed upstairs. Dave would be home soon. She kept reminding herself of that as she grasped the handrail and climbed the stairs. This house was big without him present—way too big.
    Dave tightened his seat belt as the plane finally came out of the holding pattern and began its descent into O’Hare Airport. It had been a long flight, most of it spent waiting on the ground out East for the weather to finally clear. The plane settled out of its descent and touched down, the tires whining under the speed on the wet runway. Dave grimaced. The pilot had set down a little too fast. Dave preferred to be at the controls when he flew.
    He looked out over the runway sweeping by and could see across the tarmac to the buildings that housed the private jets. He should have taken the private jet; he would’ve made better time.
    No. As much as he would have enjoyed making the flight, he didn’t like to take the plane and leave Sara without a means of fast exit. When they had to yank her from a location, the ability to be in the air within twenty minutes made all the difference in the world.
    When the plane eventually came to a stop, Dave stood along with the other passengers in first class. He retrieved his briefcase from the overhead compartment. Sara was probably waiting up to hear about his trip. It was going to be at least another hour before he was home.
    He had news to tell her. He still wasn’t sure how he wanted to broach the subject. The FBI lab had generated a lead on the last package.
    The packages were a nasty reminder from the kidnapper stalking Sara. He liked to taunt, send mementos, reminding everyone he was still free. This time he may have made a mistake. Dave sincerely hoped so. He had spent a lifetime working to keep Sara safe while also trying to break the case.
    The man they were looking for had broken pattern and used a different kind of tape. The guess was a pretty simple one. He had run out of the previous roll. Still, the type of weave and number of threads in the packing tape were distinct. Dave already had agents doing the footwork with possible manufacturers.
    The odds of it shipping to only one locale were slim. But this was a game played on slim odds. With time, one of those slim leads would be gold. How did he break the news to Sara without getting her hopes raised too much?
    She’d buried her disappointment when leads went cold, but every time he’d raised her hopes and then they didn’t pan out, it hurt him as much as it did her.
    As Dave walked down the long terminal concourse to the baggage claim, he placed a call on his cellular phone to check messages. He would have been paged had anything urgent come up.
    His jaw tightened as he listened to Sara’s message. She had gone to have coffee with someone but left no name. Red flags went up. She wasn’t with someone they knew. He had to tamp down his aggravation as he placed the next call. Even with Travis along for security, she should have avoided the public place.
    His gut clenched when Travis reported she had waved him off tonight. It was fear now, not just anger. What was his sister doing? She knew better than this.
    Dave disconnected and placed the next call, his pace picking up. “Ben, is she home?”
    “Yes. Half an hour ago.”
    Dave let himself exhale. “Everything quiet?”
    “Just fine, boss. The security grid hasn’t even picked up that stray cat tonight.”
    Dave took the stairs rather than the escalator down to the baggage claim level, hurrying around other passengers. “I’ll be there in an hour.”
    “I’ll be expecting you,” Ben replied.
    Dave understood why Sara was fighting the