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Kate stared out the window as Jack drove them away from Luz’s house and to the northwest part of Scottsdale, where his apartment was located. Her heart kept giving odd little nervous thumps, although she honestly didn’t know whether that was because of the dreadful news she’d just heard, or because Jack Sandoval was sitting only a foot or so away from her.
Which was really the dumbest damn thing to be focusing on. All this death, all these horrors, and yet her stupid brain kept obsessing over details like the fine outline of his profile, the strength of his hands as they gripped the steering wheel. Maybe it was only a way to distract herself…and Jack was pretty damn distracting. Kate thought it much better to fixate on the muscles under his dress shirt, rather than mentally go over th
