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Where was he going? She picked up the pace so that
she could make out something he was telling the other person on the
phone, but there was too much noise around them for her to make out
anything.
    To her surprise, he went around the
corner of the building, which left them alone for the moment. She
glanced behind her, wondering if it was best to keep following him.
Perhaps she should go back to Hampton. Now, that was something she
never thought she’d willingly consider. Going back to her irritable
boss so she could feel safe!
    “ It’s taken care of,” Devon
said into his cell phone. “Don’t send anymore.”
    Anymore? She turned her attention back
to him.
    He hung up on his current call and
started to dial another number when he noticed her. He jerked and
quickly shut the phone. “What are you doing here?”
    She couldn’t tell if he was alarmed or
angry but finally decided he was probably both. Crossing her arms
to hide her slight trembling, she said, “You’re behind this
explosion, aren’t you? There is no terrorist attack. You set this
up.”
    He stared at her for a moment, his
face unreadable.
    The only thing that held her in place
was her anger over the needless destruction and suffering that he
caused. “You’ve done this before, haven’t you?” Stupid. What was
she thinking by confronting him like this? He obviously had
important connections, and here she was invoking his wrath. But
something in her had snapped, making her unable to stop. “Well?
What else have been false terror attacks?”
    He calmly placed the phone into the
breast pocket of his suit jacket. “I don’t know what you’re talking
about.”
    “ Don’t play dumb.” Her
pulse raced with adrenaline. Stupid. She was stupid! This man was
dangerous. She just knew it. That was the only reason why a demon
lurked around him. And yet, losing her sister and having her entire
world tossed upside down was taking its toll on her nerves. She
couldn’t stop. Even if he pulled out a gun right now and threatened
to kill her, she couldn’t stop. “Do you know where those people
disappeared to? Was that another ploy to get the people to unite
for this coming one world government?”
    He took a step toward her, and she
instinctively backed up. He grabbed her arm and shot her a warning
look. “I advise you to tread carefully. You think you know what
you’re dealing with but you don’t. This goes much deeper than you
can imagine.”
    “ You bastards took my
sister from me. I have nothing to lose.” And she didn’t. She had
nothing to live for. Nothing to give up. No reason to
exist.
    “ No. We didn’t. We don’t
know what caused that.”
    She shook her head as her eyes filled
with tears. She’d wanted him to admit it. But he didn’t. “You’re
lying,” she insisted, even though it was ridiculous. She wanted him
to be lying. She wanted to be able to get to her sister and bring
her home.
    He shook his head. “That wasn’t part
of the plan, but it doesn’t matter because it’s done. Look, do you
want to live or not?”
    She hesitated to answer. After how
close she came to dying just now... If that bomb had been further
down the mall... Was she prepared for death?
    He sighed. “If you want to survive,
you have to play by their rules.”
    Shooting him a sharp look, she asked,
“Whose rules?”
    Before she knew what was happening, he
pressed her up against the side of the mall and kissed her.
Stunned, she didn’t push him away. How could she? She didn’t have
time to think.
    He wasn’t demanding in the kiss,
though he was insistent that the kiss happen. His hands settled on
her hips, and that was when she thought to push him away. His mouth
left hers and traveled the length of her jaw and down her neck. Her
heart raced, even as she figured that she should be able to push
him away once she caught her breath.
    He brought his lips to her ear. “We’re
being watched. There are cameras everywhere. Listening devices.
You’re being