No ordinary Billionaire

CHAPTER 16

The two women came out the door hesitantly, Emily spot-

ting Grady almost immediately and throwing herself into

his arms. Randi was caught up by a uniformed police officer

and comforted as he spirited her away from the door.

Joe Landon stood next to Dante. He wiped his sweaty

brow as he said, "Thank God Two of them are safe. Hostage

negotiators and the SWAT team are en route now. It's going

to take another fifteen minutes or so. There's nobody local.

I can act as the negotiator, but the bastard doesn't seem to

want anything other than for us to back off. He's not mak-

ing any demands."

Emily pulled herself from Grady's fierce embrace and

grasped Dante's arm, still panicked. "She doesn't have fif-

teen minutes. He's going to rape her and then kill her with

a huge knife. He's not who you think. There's some Windy

City Carver raped and killed women in Chicago, and

then he killed more women while he was on the run. He's

not an engaged other or husband like we thought. He's a

[shychotic rapist and murderer. He's angry because Sarah

blew his cover when he tried to kill her after his son died.

He isn't just holding her hostage. He wants her to die."

The Windy City Carver? Impossible.

Hell, there wasn't a police officer in the country who

didn't know about the Carver. Still an unsolved mystery in

Chicago, the bastard had been responsible for the rape and

murder of over a dozen women in the past decade. "Are you

sure?" Dante asked Emily urgently, not wanting to believe

that Sarah was the prisoner of an insane sociopath like the

Carver. But strangely, gut instinct was screaming at him

that Emily was speaking the truth. There hadn't been a

Carver victim in Chicago for quite some time, and the inter-

vals between killings were usually pretty much the same.

Once he'd stopped killing or much longer than he usually

did, many had assumed that he'd died or fled.

"Yes, I'm sure," Emily sobbed. "When Sarah confronted

him, he admitted it. Dante, set herself up as bait, telling

John Thompson, he could rape and kill her easier if we were

let go. She knows she'll never get out of there alive. We have

to do something. She said to tell you that she'd keep him