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Because in him I saw a reflection of myself-a reflection of the killer Jack wantednot to becoht this damn attraction as hard as I could I didn’t need a constant reht behowa full read of his thoughts We et that proof
Which is the reason, he said softly, that I ain, and a slight smile teased one corner of his mouth It didn’t reach his eyes Didn’t warht
Good I paused Does thishome?
I said it in a hopeful kind of way, and his saze, the night suddenly didn’t seeoing to give up this attraction very easily
No, Kye said, it means you’re stuck with me until we discover just what this woman is up to
Darn
Its so nice to feel wanted
Oh, he anted all right It was just lucky the moon heat was over and I had soood given he could probably smell
Though he seeood job of it
I should be arresting your ass, I muttered You’ve been warned off this case several times already
You could try if you want to, but it’ll cause a bit of a ruckus, and our target justfollowed
Which is why I’ your ass That and the fact I was just too bone tired to th I’d probably need to haul his cute rear end into the Directorate
He s We walked another block and crossed over Bourke Street Laughter and voices joined the bass-heavy beat, and the scent of alcohol and huht air
"I liked your perforuess he figured us actually having some conversation did look a little better than utter silence should our target happen to look over her shoulder "Even for a olf, you moved extraordinarily well"
I raised an eyebrow "You were there?"
I was
"Disguised, obviously"
"Obviously You didn’t spot me"
"Hard to spot someone if they’ve erased their scent and donned a colanced at nize you Your look and slanced past you several tiular look better, by the way"
"Then I’d better keep this one," I said dryly "You planning to be there toht?"
"Of course" Telepathically, he added, Now that I know she has an accomplice, it is my duty to track her down and hill them both
And if he did, I would arrest hiht be "If I spot you toht, I’ll treat you a lap dance"
"I wouldn’t"
I raised an eyebrow again "Why not? We both know you’d enjoy it"
"That is the problem" I am not here to enjoy myself
Of course he wasn’t He was here to track down and kill Just like me A shiver rolled across my skin and I rubbed entle, like offer me his coat Quinn would have
As we neared Flinders Lane, Hanna suddenly swung in our direction, looking left and right before running across She didn’t even look our way as she ran past us, lance at her watch
"Must have an appoint ure waited A slender woman as all of sixteen or seventeen
Fuck
I stopped, and just as I did, Hanna looked around Kye reacted before I could, his speed alainst the wall and began kissing ry and filled with everything he hadn’t been showing, and I reacted as fiercely as I would have had the fullco else in ainstwith it sound, and I beca
I broke away, then said, Listen
I am He kissed my neck, my ear, then wrapped his ar that was as close as two people could get without being naked
"But what does the job entail?" the younger wo with a vaht" Hanna’s voice sounded a lot tinnier than it had before Maybe she earing sohtly on Kye’s shoulder so I could get a better look at Hanna’s target Like the other women who’d been found dead, this one was slender in build Unlike the others, she had large breasts and a wine-colored birth down her neck
The younger wo with one bloodsucker for one night? That see catch?"
"The catch is you have to come to Meinhardt’s to meet him"
"Isn’t that a strip joint?"
"A men’s club is the tere, "and you won’t be expected to strip for anyone except s and I think you would be to his tastes"
"So I have to do hio home with him"
"And then what?" There was still doubt evident in her tones, but even I could see the glint of anticipation in her eyes Though not, I suspected, for the sex, but rather for the cash "I just leave in the rand in your hand, yes And that’sto the eht have been talking about, but I knew for sure the young woman would never live to do it
The slender woue, then said, "Make it twelve, and I’m yours"