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James’s lips twitched, but Gideon leaned into his personal space, earning another warning look His hand was already below Gideon’s line of sight, and while he was sure the man had a baton or Taser under there to calive a shit "Has anyone checked on her?"
"Her private rooround level," James said flatly "There are no s or other access points that wouldn’t go pastthe cats?"
"That’s the alley outside the kitchen The staff would have noticed if she didn’t coht crowd You’ve had what, a billion people co attention to whether or not she cah to break "Check on her Get a visual Where’s that alleyway?" Jaetting his dick in a twist at Gideon’s attempt to order hi his words seriously, though his gaze reets you out of my face, it’s on the east side, in the back, behind the Duo check her rooet anywhere with the stalker routine She’ll eat you for lunch She doesn’t intifor you" He strode back out the front doors, checked the gun in the sauntlets loaded ooden arrows as he cut past the corner and into the darkness on the east side No matter what demons had rattled hi with the shadows He knehere his weapons were, was ready to use them in a blink Faster than a blink even, his intuition on full alert and sharp as a blade
Despite that, he hoped he rong, that he was crazy paranoid and she was fine She was going to be in her bed, as Ja robe that showed off all those curves,menace who needed to be committed And that would be just fine
As he slid deeper into the alley, his heart rate increased Laura had been killed in an alley Her pale yellow dress had been soaked with blood, the gold chain with his senior high school ring wrapped tight on her throat to keep it out of the way of the va idea had been old-fashioned, yeah, but she’d been like that So had he She’d even liked wearing his varsity jacket
Guess the two of them would have made more sense in the fifties When what scared people were Co a lonely, empty existence because you threhat you loved, didn’t protect her when she needed protecting
Fuck it Focus
He saw the line of Dumpsters, the service door to the kitchen He re over every object, identifying it, searching for
There was no wind in the alley to carry his scent, but if they’d heard hi, they could haveup his neck But it wasn’t soauntlet already in position to fire The arrow sliced through the air high, his arm knocked upward His body was spun around and slammed face forward into the brick A relentless hand cla the arm
"I am not here as your eneht sound A whisper in the night that sent chills up the spine and one When he shoved away fro was there Except the voice, now co from above
"She is here" With those words, the whisper beca from the fire escape above him It landed on the Dumpster and then made the jump into the debris behind it, practically faster than he could follow, and in total, eerie silence
Gideon’s feet were in motion, his heart in his throat When he skidded around the Dumpster, past and present meshed, and he reeled, disorientedNo
So ?
After seeing her earlier in the latex and sexy silk, the siown embroidered with blue flowers at theA blood-soaked ribbon caught in her hair suggested she’d had it tied back,ridiculous, cliché bunny slippers One was still half on her foot The other was upside down, a few feet away, the pale pink now marbleized broith dried blood
He focused on the clothes, because he couldn’t yet handle seeing the reaze to the host who’d spoken in his ear tilted his head up in a quick jerk, an anilittering dark eyes and close-cropped dark hair Fangs glistening as the vampire bared them in a snarl In a coil of unleashed power, he leaped
Gideon cursed and activated his other gauntlet, but the va for its force It whipped him around, let him see the vampire land on what he’d flushed fro He had a trickle of blood at the corner of hisorder to be in on the entertains, because what Gideon saw on the ground had been a group effort<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>