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All ofit served only to make him more painfully aware of the vulnerability ofchildren. He loweredhis mouth toward hers. God bless Russ Steiger. But if God's the only one that knows, then how doesGrandma know? She doesn't.

dnapping had upset her She had tried totalk about it with him, but after his initial chilling comment he'd hadnothing more to say. Maybe all the women he visited in the dead of the night answered theirdoors with a fistful of firepower. Hisexperiences were the stuff of shame and secrets, and he kept them tohimself. I'm doing all I can to get up to speed, Chief.