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awful, he’s still my husband.”
    “It’s clear that you need to go to the police.”
    “No! Peter said if I did there would be consequences.”
    “Don’t you think you’re being a little overdramatic? He probably is married and just doesn’t want his wife getting wind of this—he might lose his boat, or maybecustody of his son. He’s just trying to scare you into doing his dirty work for him.”
    “Maybe. I don’t know. He does scare me.”
    Gina wiped a hand over her face, afraid that her sister had really gotten in over her head this time. “Does he know where you live? That you’ve been staying here?”
    “No, I don’t think so. I always go to meet him—he doesn’t leave the boat for too long. He said it was because of Ricki. He knows I have a sister, but I never told him anything specific, I swear. He’s never been here.”
    “Thank God for small favors. You and I have different last names, so hopefully he wouldn’t make a connection. Just don’t go see him anymore. Cut any communication off.”
    “I don’t think that will work. I have to get those pictures. He gave me until tomorrow, when I am supposed to see him again. And now you don’t have them,” she cried. “We have to try. We have to try to get them.”
    Gina recognized the genuine panic in Tracy’s voice, and took a deep breath. If what her sister was saying was true, then there was only one way to get those pictures back. Gina took another deep breath, hardly able to believe she was even considering what she was about to say.
    “Okay, here’s the thing. Mason and I, uh, we kinda hooked up last night.”
    “What?” Tracy shrieked and her eyes went wide.
    “He caught me in his office when I was looking for the pictures. I had to find some way to explain being there, and before you know it, one thing led to another.”
    Tracy’s eyes went wide. “Wow. Well, you did look great in that costume.”
    “Whatever. He invited me back for a…date tonight. He doesn’t know who I am, and of course I wasn’t going to go.”
    Tracy was smart, especially when it came to her sense of self-preservation, and made the leap that Gina had already made. “But if you go, you might be able to grab the pictures! It’s perfect!”
    Gina had vowed to herself not to run to Tracy’s rescue anymore, but she wasn’t sure this was the best time for tough love, not when Tracy had an apparently dangerous man physically threatening her for the photos. If she was going to be able to look herself in the mirror, though, she couldn’t sleep with Mason just to steal from him. Mata Hari she definitely was not. Maybe there were options.
    “I could talk to Mason, tell him the problem. He’s a smart guy, a lawyer, he might know a way to help,” Gina suggested.
    Tracy shook her head. “No way. He’s definitely a by-the-book kind of guy. He’d probably have you arrested, even though you did sleep with him. Which I can’t believe, by the way. Mason seems too uptight to have sex with anyone, though he is hunky, in his own corporate kind of way. I want details on that ,” Tracy said, distracted from her troubles for a moment.
    “Forget it.”
    “But—”
    “Listen, I’ll try to get the pictures, but I’m not sleeping with him to do it. I’ll just lead him on a little, or something, and try to get back into that office.”
    “Do you want to slip him something?”
    “What?”
    “You know, a sleeping pill or something. So you can search the place?”
    Gina looked at her sister, appalled. “No! Are you crazy? I’m not going to drug the poor man.”
    “Believe me, Mason is far from poor.”
    Gina sighed heavily, sitting down and dropping her face into her hands, overwhelmed. “This is such a mess. How could you have gotten involved with a man like this?”
    Tracy closed the space, surprising Gina with a tight hug. “I know. I’m sorry. I never should have dragged you into it, but I was so desperate. If we can just get these pictures to Peter,