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Checkmate

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Checkmate

Annmarie McKenna

Dedication

I’ve got to send this one out to my sister, my editor, whom I love and

should probably add her name to the front cover, and to everyone who

asked for Eli’s story and felt I’d done him wrong in Seeing Eye Mate .

Thanks!

Checkmate

Chapter One

“Well what have we got here?”

Nicole Raine Taylor hesitated a split second and whipped her gaze

toward the leering voice coming from her right. Her heart thumped once,

twice, before settling into a more normal rhythm. The group of three

young men hanging out by the open sliding door of a ratty van couldn’t

be talking to her.

Keep walking. Don’t stop. No sense in giving them a reason to talk to

her.

From the corner of her eye she saw the one who’d been leaning

against the car next to the van stand straighter. She twisted her keys in

her hand until they poked out between the clenched fingers of her fist.

Picking up the pace, Nikki hurried to the cherry red Jeep Wrangler

she’d bought six months earlier. It was parked not more than fifteen or

sixteen spots away. No problem.

“Where you goin’, pretty girl?”

Problem. Heavy footsteps sounded behind her along with a whistled

catcall. Damn it. If only she’d thought to grab her cell phone out of her

bag before leaving the Maxwell’s Department Store end of Scenic Rivers

Mall.

Stupid . Too damn stupid to live.

Shit. Not a good thought to have under the circumstances. She

swallowed back the fear threatening to choke her and walked faster. With

her free hand, Nikki reached into the bag swung over her shoulder and

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