"He kissed me. He threw me a proposition. I went to see where Parker is because I knew that it was him that took her. He said he would tell me if I kissed him. I refused. He grabbed me and kissed me on the way out. Parker was the only reason that I was there."

Searching his face, staring into him so very deeply that Stryker almost felt unnerved, he got the impression that Jamie was rooting through him, as though questioning everything he saw as to whether it was the truth.

"Did you get her?" he asked at last.

"No. He said that I had to kiss him...