#0001 Knocked Out: PAVAD: FBI Case Files, #1
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Every unit of the FBI has those cases that just make an agent think, make them feel, and make them wonder why people treat others the way they do. PAVAD—the Prevention & Analysis of Violent Acts Division of the FBI—was no different.
This was one of those cases.
Members of the Complex Crimes Unit Team Three, one of the best FBI investigative teams in the nation, works to stop a stalker before he destroys one Texas family from within.
Gillian Birch is a successful children's book novelist and part-time librarian. She's never hurt anyone, never done anything to draw the attention of an obsessive madman. But what he's threatened to do to her terrifies her. She has no choice but to go to the police.
But can this team from the FBI stop the stalker before he gets to his intended target?
Team Three isn't so sure...
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Case File #0001 is the first in a series of mystery novellas featuring characters from the PAVAD: FBI Romantic Suspense series. These novellas feature complete suspense stories and can be read in any order.
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#0001 Knocked Out - Calle J. Brookes
Prologue
AL stumbled down the hall toward the room she shared with her partner. She hated hotels. They really, truly sucked. Especially when the hotel in question was dark, dirty, and run-down.
Not to mention in the middle of nowhere. Her partner was doing something Paige rarely did—sleeping—and Al had found herself far too restless to stick around the room listening to her best friend breathe.
Not when it had come too close to the opposite happening for Al’s comfort. They could have lost Paige so easily, and that was something she couldn’t seem to get out of her head.
She slipped back inside the room and made certain to lock the door and slide the room’s only chair beneath the handle. There had been one memorable case where she and Paige had been surprised in their room by a couple of drunken fools who’d followed them back to their hotel from the local precinct, of all things.
Paige had ended up clubbing one of them upside the head while Al had pulled her weapon on the two idiots. Not the highlight of that case.
But that case had been a weird one to begin with. So was this one, and Al wasn’t sure how she felt about things.
Paige had nearly gotten her clock cleaned, as Al’s husband was known to say. And Al had witnessed the entire thing and been helpless to stop it.
Paige wasn’t just her partner anymore. Or just her best friend. Paige had married her brother Mick less than a month ago. This was only their second case since Paige had returned from her honeymoon.
Al loved Paige; there was no doubt about it. But it had been even worse seeing her sister-in-law in danger this time. Because if anything happened to Paige, it would devastate Al’s brother. And he’d already lost one woman he’d loved in the past.
And Paige meant so much more to him.
Still, Paige had managed to protect herself. Somehow. And wasn’t that what mattered?
Al stepped over to Paige’s bed and looked down at her. She lifted her phone up and snapped a quick picture of the other woman with her mouth wide open and dark hair tangled around her head. Paige’s cheek rested on her left hand.
Where the wedding ring her brother had placed there gleamed.
It had been Al’s grandmother’s, and she couldn’t think of anyone more like that woman had been than Paige. It was fitting, wasn’t it, that Mick gave that ring to Paige?
She quickly texted the picture to the man in question. Mick headed up the PAVAD’s Internal Affairs division. Any and all cases involving injuries were reported to his division automatically. And, of course, his people ran to him the minute they learned Paige was involved. Why wouldn’t they?
Al felt a twinge of guilt. She should have been the one to call him and let him know the first chance she got. But it had taken hours to finish up at the crime scene, and they were just now getting settled in.
Hopefully, a pic would reassure him.
And maybe Al could finally grab some real sleep and forget what had happened. Somehow.
Someone knocked on the door softly, and Al hurriedly moved the chair before the knocker could wake Paige. She wasn’t surprised to see her team leader, Sebastian, standing in the hall.
Why wouldn’t he be? He was Paige’s brother-in-law, married to her sister. And he looked so much like Al’s husband her own heart hurt. Sometimes when she was missing Seth, looking at his identical brother definitely didn’t help.
So many connections on their team. It was a wonder Ed Dennis, leader of their directorate, even allowed them to remain together. How long would it last?
I figured I’d check on her before heading to my room for a few hours. We’ll head home first thing in the morning.
I don’t think the jerk did too much damage.
She was lucky. If he’d been a better shot…
I know. But he wasn’t.
Al looked over her shoulder one more time as the events leading up to this moment replayed in her head.
1
STALKING case. Let’s go!
Paige was one of the first ones to greet Al when Al walked into the PAVAD—Prevention & Analysis of Violent Acts Division—building three days after their last case had wound up unexpectedly. North Texas.
I just got here.
She took a quick look around for the rest of their team. Jaz and Hernandez were bickering near the elevators, nothing unusual there at all. It was actually reassuring after what the two of them had gone through at the hands of a previous enemy of Paige’s a few months ago. Jaz had come far too close to dying, and Al’s brother Mick had actually carried Saul Hernandez’s unconscious body to safety. The two partners had been extremely stilted and quiet with each other ever since. But not today. Today they were almost back to themselves.
Paige was probably responsible. She’d been out for three weeks, planning her wedding, getting married, then relaxing for two weeks with her husband in a Caribbean hut. Al definitely didn’t want to know all the details—not with the knowledge that the guy in that hut with her best friend was her older