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had placed him on a diet, but he broke it almost daily.
    She had two hours before she had to report to the police station and refused to arrive earlier than that.
    “That sounds good as long as we don’t return to the earlier conversation.” She looked each one of her friends in the eyes.
    They nodded.
    “Okay, let’s get out of here.”
    Megan rose and put on her blue scarf, white beanie hat and heavy, white down jacket. She’d lived in Baltimore four years and hadn’t acclimated to the weather as people said she would. Her friends teased her about how heavily she bundled up to go outside on what they called “nice days”. She couldn’t believe the light coats they wore. When it came to the weather, she was still the girl from the South where it was rarely this cold.
    * * * * *
    After returning from lunch, they met the new journalist. It was none other than her ex-friend, Merissa Attenborough. Kristen wouldn’t have known this was the woman who had helped break Megan’s heart. The heart that now pounded out of control. How was she to work with a woman she despised?
    Plus, the home-wrecker had taken Kevin’s spot. Nausea assailed her as she closed another door on accepting what had happened to her brother.
    Avoiding her new colleague, she walked to her desk, settled in and checked her voicemail. Of course there was another call from Marcus. He wouldn’t give up. She didn’t know how many times she had to tell him it was over. And now Merissa would be near. Did he know?
    “Hello, baby.” She hated it when he called her baby, and she’d told him that while they were together. Yet he’d still called her that, and she’d never said a thing after the first time. That should’ve been a clue he didn’t truly care for her.
    “I had to call. Your article today reminded me about Kevin. I’m sorry, baby. I know how close you were. I liked him.”
    She tightened her grip on the telephone receiver. Her brother hadn’t liked Marcus. Now Megan wished she had listened to Kevin.
    “I know you don’t believe I still love you, but I do. I care about what happens to you. Please quit what you’re doing. Even I know how dangerous this group is. I don’t want to see you follow in Kevin’s footsteps. I want a chance to make things up to you.”
    He sighed. “I know how you are about a story, and that’s why I worry,” he paused. “Think about it. Bye, baby.”
    She held the receiver to her ear a moment longer, not listening to the recording of instructions to save or delete the message.
    “Something wrong?” Kelly startled her. She stood beside Megan’s desk with a look of concern covering her face.
    Megan pressed the proper button to delete the message. “No.”
    “It was him again. Wasn’t it?” Kelly whispered.
    Megan nodded slightly and then turned to her computer to check her email and press releases. He wasn’t worth her thinking about.
    Midway through her search she stopped. It had happened again. Her investigative mind told her while these happened infrequently and at different locations, they were all connected.
    She turned to her friends. “Did you hear about the prison break in Chicago today?”
    Megan knew what her next investigation would be. She’d get to the bottom of these escapes, no matter what it took.

CHAPTER FOUR
    The frown her mother warned her would cause permanent wrinkles formed on Megan’s face. Outside the large glass windows of the newspaper office, the snow fell light and misty, the small snowflakes creating a veil of white. One inch had already accumulated and three more were expected that night, which would leave the perfect playground for children in the morning.
    There would be sledding, building snowmen and snowball fights.
    Her heart ached for Kevin. He’d thrown the first snowball at her after she’d arrived in Baltimore where she’d seen her first snow.
    The moment she stepped outside, a gust of the cold, biting wind slammed into her with such intensity it stole her