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from this place. No place for a woman here right now.”
    Zak was dropped off at the front of the address Amy gave him, and he walked into the Building One lobby, after being buzzed inside by the guard behind the desk. He texted her that he had arrived.
    “I’m here to see Amy Dobson. She’s expecting me.”
    Before the guard could call up to her apartment, the back door opened, and Amy came running out. Her light brown hair was down, trailing after her. She wore faded blue jeans that hugged her impossibly thin hips, and an oversized white sweatshirt hung off one shoulder. Her fresh face sparked all kinds of good things, kicking his heart into gear as he felt adrenalin spread all over his body. Clearly, that familiar chemistry was there again. Big time.
    He felt her crush into him, as his arms wrapped around her, squeezing and lifting her feet up off the floor. “So happy to see you’re okay, Amy,” he whispered.
    “Thank you so much for coming, Zak.”
    They parted and he could see from the redness in her eyes where she’d been crying. “You okay?”
    She slipped her arm around his waist as she waved to the guards and then took him through the doors to the hallway leading to the elevators. “Dad came last night and spent the night on my couch. He’s down at the station right now, getting some information. Supposed to call me later on. I’ve just been here, waiting.”
    The elevator doors opened. Zak drew her into his arms as the elevator rose. “You must have been scared to death. What did the police tell you last night?”
    “Not much of anything. Just that I should be available to them if they catch the guy. I’m apparently one of the only ones to get a good look at him. That’s my artist sketch they’re putting all over the news.”
    “Of course, you have to cooperate. I’m sure they know what they’re doing.”
    Zak followed, holding Amy’s hand as she led him to her front door. When he stepped through the tall doorway, he was stunned to see the panoramic view coming from her sliding glass door to the outside. The San Francisco Bay, the water, the Bay Bridge and glittering buildings nearby looked like a picture perfect post card of everything beautiful about the city.
    Amy walked up behind him, leaning into his back, wrapping her arms around his front. “You like?”
    “My God, Amy. It’s unbelievable. What a view. I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it before.”
    “Yeah. I thought it was special too.” She stood next to him, admiring the picture before them. She hadn’t let go of his hand.
    “I don’t blame you,” he said, turning toward her. “This is you. This is perfect for you here.”
    Her eyes smiled before her lips did. She stepped closer to him, putting her hands up to his neck as he laced his fingers at her lower back. “So good to see you again, Zak. Thank you so much for coming.”
    “Of course. Thanks for—” His lips were over hers so fast he wasn’t able to finish. The traveling, the frantic phone call from last night, all his training and all the events of yesterday pushed back into the woods of his mind. It was as if they began right where they’d left off before all the drama. Before the paths they’d taken. The life they’d started separately suddenly seemed to merge into one.
    He felt himself falling again down a slope he didn’t want to recover from.
    Amy’s cell phone went off. Then it rang a second time. Amy was still returning his kisses.
    “Sweetheart. Might be your Dad. The police.” Zak separated them and smiled. He kissed her nose.
    Amy ran to the phone. “Dad? What did you find out?”
    Zak watched the slow long look she gave him, starting from his eyes, his chin and then his chest, down below his beltline, to his shoes and then slowly back up again. She angled her head in the opposite direction with a satisfied smile.
    She was nodding. “So all that’s good, right?”
    Zak walked to the sliding glass door and out on the deck. Sirens