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Then she screamed.

Mason burst through the door expecting to see an intruder in the room the way Jo was screaming. An ax murderer, even. But she was sitting up in bed, the covers clutched to her, pointing across the room.

He looked that way and only saw her phone lying on the floor. What the hell was it doing over there, and why was she screaming?

He could hear Keith squawking on the other end of his phone, but he ignored him for the moment and picked up Jo’s phone instead, reading the last message.

What the ever-loving fuck?

When he read the last text, his vision went red. Literally red.

Murderous rage.

It was the only emotion that came close to what he was feeling. Instead of smashing her phone, he powered it down. He had a suspicion the hacker was using her camera to watch her.

And it fucking pissed him off. A person’s phone went everywhere with them. Hell, his ended up on the bathroom sink when he showered, as he assumed hers did. Which meant the bastard might have watched as she stood in her underwear brushing her teeth or any number of indecent times. He wanted to scream, but he couldn’t do that.

Josephine was terrified.

He gave Keith Dimitri’s address and told him to get his ass over there. Then he tossed his phone on the bottom of the bed and crawled into bed with his girl, pulling her to him. She was shaking.

“Mason, he…he knew…”

“Shh, baby, I know. I’m going to fix this.”

“It came in after I was under the blanket.”

He cradled her to him like a baby. “It’s okay. We’re gonna find him.”

His phone started ringing, and he leaned down to answer it.

“Tell me.”

Kade cleared his throat. “Ray is nowhere to be found. His parents haven’t seen him. He is supposed to be working on a construction job in upstate New York, but the foreman says he quit. Weeks ago.”

“Shit.”

“That’s what I said.”

“Did you guys ever run that background check on him?”

“No. Once she broke up with Ray, I didn’t think it was important. I have my best man working on it now. If there’s anything, we’ll find it.”

“I’m at Dimitri’s place. Jackson has a man outside, and Keith’s on his way over. We’ll meet you at the office in the morning.”

“See you then,brat.”

Kade hung up, and Mason set his phone to the side but thought better of it. He turned the volume all the way down then threw part of the blanket over it. If the fucker was in Jo’s phone, then he might be in Mason’s. Ray better hope to God he didn’t find him before the cops did.

“You’re safe, baby. He can’t get near you.”

“But how did he know where I was, Mason?” Her blue eyes were blown wide with fear, and it hit Mason square in the chest.

“He’s in your phone. I think he’s using the camera, but we won’t know until we hook it up to a computer and run some tests. I turned it off for now.”

“How is that even possible?”

“There’s a lot of shit possible with technology most people don’t even know about.”

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