Surprise surprise, Levon thought as Jaime came from behind Jim with an outstretched hand. Nice to meet you, Levon, Jaime said with a wink. They shook ...ands. You too, Jaime muttered. I think you too will work out great, Jim said, and with that, he walked away. Jaime looked down the hall to see that Jim was out of view, and grabbed Levon hard and kissed him passionately. Nice to meet you, stud, he whispered seductively. You new around here? Although Levon had returned the kiss, he suddenly felt. They’d promised to look for him, but no one was taking that seriously.More worryingly, Jawarski and Carter weren’t having any luck either. They were able to track his last movements after he talked to Amanda and said he was on his way. They’d gotten surveillance video from the business that showed Josh pulling up to a pump and walking off camera. The car sat there for almost twenty minutes, with Josh never returning to put gas in the car.In one top corner of the video, you could see what looked. Ned McDougal, County Mayor Karl Willis, and so many others had perished in the KKK bombing attack. Haynes had only survived, oddly enough, because he had accidentally left his cell phone at the county courthouse and went back to retrieve it. Was it an accident, though, he wondered, or Providence of some kind. Now he had to run the county largely by himself, in a caretaker role, until new commissioners and a new county mayor were elected and sworn into office.This was when Haynes heard a knock. The thought was the only thing he had left, a hollow little prayerringing in his mind he clung onto as the numbness of despair claimedeverything else. He had started it so many years ago, after his first"hunt". It hadn't left him since. But now, it was so quiet, so weak.Like the last flickering of a dying flame.I am a predator. I have hunted for twelve years. My girls are my prey.I am a predator.I cannot be prey.As his little prayer went out, Allen lowered his head to the table andwished for a.