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Competing for Love Chapter 38 - Interrogating Cliff
Cliff was sweating profusely, sitting in the interrogation room waiting for the detective. He knew he shouldn't have trusted Jon from the beginning. Now he was going to go down in flames while that rat bastard got away. He decided he would be as truthful with the police as possible. Honestly, he didn't know much, and Jon had clearly left him in the dark on purpose. When the detective in the grey suit came in, Cliff's pulse was beating so fast he thought he was going to have a heart attack. Dennis sat down across from Cliff and looked at him with fury in his eyes. "You've already been read your Miranda rights and declined an attorney. So now, why don't you tell me what you and Jon had planned for Natalia." Dennis saw the man across from him swallow nervously. "I...uh...we...uh...we planned to pay her back for how she did each of us wrong," Cliff said as though it made perfect sense. Although now that he was sitting handcuffed in a chair, he was beginning to realize how r
Competing for Love Chapter 39 - Angry Woman
"I guess he thought that would scare me. If anything, it makes me angry that this young woman died because of his misconstrued beliefs. You need to stop him before he kills anyone else." Natalia looked at Dennis. He couldn't believe she wasn't crying and acting terrified that Jon might get her next. "We're doing everything we can. I was hoping to get more information out of Cliff, but it seems like Jon was using him as a pawn. I don't want you going out for anything. If you have doctor appointments, make them come here. Let as few people in as possible. I don't know if he has any others he's using, but he already got to Linnette and Cliff. We need to consider everyone around you a suspect." Dennis looked toward Dorian, who was on the computer, and Hayden let out a small laugh. "You don't need to worry about Dorian. He's like the Peter Pan of the cyber world. He is one of the few people I trust with my and Natalia's lives." Hayden was looking toward his cousin, who l
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Jon had pretended to go toward the kitchen but snuck out a side door. He was angry. He'd been so close to Natalia, and his rage had almost gotten the better of him when he saw her sitting in Hayden's arms. She had never been like that with him. He never understood when people said you could feel how much two people love each other, but he now understood after being in their presence for a few minutes. He may be unable to feel anything himself, but their love for one another was so strong it almost choked him. He walked across the street and sat at an outdoor table at a small restaurant. Even if Jon had been unable to touch them, their food had already been poisoned. Nothing too intense, just enough to make them sick. He wanted to get them out of the hotel where they would be more vulnerable. As he waited, he began getting nervous. Did he use too much? Were they lying up there dead? After about thirty minutes, he was getting worried that he had accidentally overdosed h
Competing for Love Chapter 41 - FBI Help
Natalia, Hayden, and Dorian ate their dinner in silence. They were all lost in their thoughts about how close Jon had gotten to them, with no one realizing it. Hayden had called Dennis and told him what had happened. He also told him what Dorian had found on the cameras. By the time Dennis had alerted the officers in the lobby, Jon was long gone. At least they now knew how he was able to hide so openly. Natalia felt ashamed that she had once loved him and thought he had loved her. She was angry at herself for shedding one tear over how he had hurt her. Hayden was angry at everyone, including himself. Jon could still get into the hotel and their room with all the security they had set up. He looked at Natalia and saw the worry on her pretty face. He took her hand, and she looked up at him. "It won't happen again." He said to her seriously. She instantly knew what he was talking about and nodded. "At least now we know he's wearing masks to hide his identity. Do you think Denn
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Andy got to Dennis' within thirty minutes. The detective had everything set up in one of the conference rooms. He had two dry-erase boards covered with pictures. One had photos of the murders, and the other had the pictures taken from Hayden and Natalia's home. "Wow, this guy is sick. He's a cocky son of a bitch because he doesn't even care if people know who he is." Andy studied the murder pictures, and a few things were clear. He was murdering women who looked like Natalia. He enjoyed the dismemberment of the bodies, and he was escalating. "Are Natalia and Hayden in protective custody?" He asked, looking at the pictures of them in their apartment. Andy had seen the video of Natalia being hit by the car and was amazed she was still alive. "They are staying in a penthouse at a hotel. We have officers there, and they have their own security. However, with those precautions in place, Jon was able to get into their hotel room. He wore a prosthetic mask that looked like
Competing for Love Chapter 43 - Jon's Kill Location
When Natalia was sound asleep, Hayden slid out of bed and went to the other room to talk to Dorian. He knew his cousin would still be up. When he was working on something important, he got very little sleep. He looked up when Hayden sat next to him. "I thought you went to bed?" Dorian asked him. "I did, but I wanted to talk to you. Do you think you and your men can find Jon's current location? I will pay you whatever you need to find and get rid of him. I'm done playing his games. He's terrifying Natalia, and she's already been through enough." Hayden spoke quietly in case Natalia woke up. "I've been trying to find him, but I can get some of my men to help. Don't worry about the money. We want to get this man off the street so he can stop terrorizing these women." Dorian went to his chat screen and typed a message. "Men, it's time for hunting." "They'll know what that means and start working even harder, digging in the depths of the internet to find him. He had to have left a
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"What did you find?" Hayden asked as he pushed Natalia over to the couch. "My men and I spent the entire night looking over the videos of Jon killing the women. We found a piece of mail on the floor, but we couldn't quite make out the address. So we came up with a list of possibilities based on what we could see. I had them check each one. This one is the only one that looks like a hit." Dorian turned the laptop toward them and flipped through the pictures. Natalia gave him a sympathetic smile. "I'm sorry you had to watch those videos all night. It couldn't have been easy." She said, and Dorian shook his head. "No, it wasn't, but hopefully, it will help us in stopping him from murdering anyone else," Dorian answered her with a slight smile. "I don't want to say anything to Dennis. If we can get him ourselves, let's do that. I'm done playing with him." Hayden looked at Natalia, and she was staring at him with concern. "Do you think it's a good idea to take this into
Competing for Love Chapter 45 - So Close
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Sofia was so sure that she was going to cause a scene that she crossed her arms and leaned back with a smirk. However, she saw Hayden and Natalia look at each other before they started laughing. "You thought that was going to be breaking news that caused Hayden to suddenly want you or something? First of all, I know Hayden has never spent all night with anyone besides me. Even if you did sleep together, I'm sure it was a one-and-done like every other woman he'd been with before me. You were obviously not good because he doesn't even remember you. So if you thought this would cause some type of conflict between us, you're mistaken. Hayden and I both have pasts, and we're not jealous of them. Unlike you, we look to the future." Natalia had a fire in her eyes, causing Sofia's face to turn red as though she'd been slapped. It was then that she realized Hayden was on the phone. "Hi Paul, this is Hayden Sumner. I need to talk with you regarding Sofia Spurling." Sofia felt sick as she
Competing for Love Chapter 68 - Sofia's Jealousy
Sofia looked between Hayden and Natalia wanting to bring up the fact that she was with him first. She wanted to break their happiness and have it for herself. However, the longer she waited, the more her nerve started to fade. Seeing how Hayden was with Natalia, she knew talking about their few minutes of sex that obviously meant nothing to him wouldn't matter to either of them. "What did you want to say?" Questioned Natalia with a small smile. "I just wanted to say that I am going to do everything I can to have Jon sentenced to death. He has killed too many people to skate by, with life in prison. I want his head on a platter." Sofia spoke with conviction as she pulled out a pad of paper from her briefcase. She was still going to get around reminding Hayden of who she was, but she decided it would be best done in private. Maybe he would see her out when she was leaving. Natalia looked at Sofia, not believing she was being completely honest. It felt as though she had
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