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Not that Tess was counting And she hadn’t forgotten about those wicked canines either
Moving cautiously around hi through his systeet a better look at his
Just a row of perfect pearly whites If he’d been sporting costume teeth when he attacked her, they’d been pretty das seemed to have vanished into thin air
A fact that made no sense at all
A quick visual scan of the area around her came up empty He hadn’t spat theining them
How else would he have been able to pop her throat open like a soda can? Tess brought her hand up to the bite wound in her neck The skin felt sertips No blood or stickiness, no trace of the holes he’d chewed into her jugular She probed the whole side of her neck with her fingers The area wasn’t even tender
"That’s iot up and hurried into the nearest exa her hair away from her neck, she walked up to a mounted paper-towel dispenser and peered at her reflection in the polished stainless steel The skin on her neck was clear, intact
Like the terrifying attack had never happened
"No way," she told her stricken expression "How can that be?"
Tess stepped back frohly confused
Notfor her life, feeling her blood being drained froer she’d found lying unconscious near the clinic’s back door
It had happened
So how on earth could her skin show zero trace of the assault?
Tess’s feet felt detached from her body as she walked back out of the examination room and toward the storerooed to disguise the wounds he’d inflicted on her, Tess intended to see hied
She came around the open doorway of the back room and drew up short
The puddle of river water and spilled blood her attacker had brought in with hie area of the linoleuht of it, but there was sout
The storerooorilla-size dose of anesthetic, yet he was soel?"
Tess spun around and screa her feet into ed past hi a thousand et her purse and her et the hell out
"We need to talk"
There he was again--standing right in front of her, blocking her path into her office
As though he’d si before and h now
With a yelp of alarm, Tess made a quick pivot and launched herself into the reception area She grabbed the desk phone and punched one of the speed-dial nu," she whispered under her breath, repeating the o away if she hoped for it hard enough
The call began to ring on the other end
Come on, come on, answer
"Put the phone down, fe with fear Her attacker race of a skilled predator He came closer Bared his teeth in a harsh smile
"Please Put it down Now"
Tess shook her head "Go to hell!"
The receiver flew out of her grasp of its own free will As it clattered onto the desk beside her, Tess heard Ben’s voice come on the line "Tess? Hello that you, babe? Jesus, it’s after three o’clock in theat the--" There was a loud snap behind her, like the telephone wire had been yanked from the wall jack by invisible hands Tess ju in her stomach in the silence that followed
"We have a serious problem Tess"
Oh, God
Noas pissed off, and he knew her naistered the fact that aside from her attacker’s impossible state of consciousness, he had also experienced a ried ash that marred his skin, all of his sundry scrapes and lacerations were healed His black fatigues were still torn and bloodstained fro anyunshot wound in his abdoh the shredded fabric of his black shirt, Tess saw only ssome kind of sick Halloween joke?
She didn’t think so, and she knew better than to let her guard doith this guy for so much as a second
"My boyfriend knows I’ht even have called the cops--"
"You have a mark on your hand"
"W-what?"
His voice had sounded accusatory, and now he pointed to her, indicating her right hand, which was tre up near her throat
"You’re a Breedht, you are mine"
His lip curled at the corner as he said it, like he found the words not at all to his taste Tess didn’t particularly like the sound of the the blood rush out of her head as he tracked her everyon here I don’t knohat happened to you tonight, or how you ended up in my clinic I sure don’t kno it is that you could be standing in front of h tranq to knock ten le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>