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Ryan did hope Lynn would call and let him know how the interview with Jerry the groundskeeper went, but wasn’t surprised she hadn’t. He’d come on too strong. Between scaring her in the darkness then flirting with her while telling her about Tonya’s disappearance and his reason for being there, and them standing near the scene of a brutal murder, he really shouldn’t be surprised all he achieved in doing was making her wary of him. But he couldn’t help coming on too strong. Lynn was his one that got away.
If he left out the incident with the Croatian police this summer, it’d been a while since people mistrusted him as heavily as she seemed to by the end of their conversation. After over twenty years in the Army, and retiring with the rank of First Sergeant, he was used to people taking h
