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Erin growled at hiotten a pretty up close look at the captain, and cauy was a bit of a prick He was secretive, he didn’t share his case files with the rest of the PD, and the guy was given to disappearing for long periods of time Hardly upfront police behavior
Erin had no idea how the h the ranks
He must’ve had some serious connections somewhere or else he’d knohere some bodies were buried Maybe he’d helped to bury those bodies
"Your men have to be cleared" Her voice was sharp The captain knew this, and he still had Grant and the others less than ten feet away fro?"
His dark eyes narrowed "I don’t need you to tell me how to do o ith this story Wild "Four cops One dead perp You do the " Okay, so she sounded like a bitch Screw the polite chitchat The man knew better
Bobby Burroas dead--not just dead--slaughtered Aw, hell
Young’s handso he was a pretty boy with those elegant planes and hollows on his face--tightened No sign of his flashing diht back
"We didn’t do it" Fro about the guy fro, from the first mouy
Now this
"We’re going to have to prove that," she said Not going to be easy
Another flash of light
Erin licked her lips and knehat she had to do "Excuse et close to that body She spun and headed for the perp Um, victim now Her steps slowed as she approached the body "Give me a minute, Mark," she said to the crime scene analyst, and he moved back
Less than a foot away, she stopped She didn’t touch Bobby or the bars, no as she going to risk contaaze scanned every inch of hi careful attention to the wounds and--
Shit
Her heart slammed into her chest
Those weren’t knife wounds No, she knew the shape of those wounds
Intimately
Those slices had been made by claws She’d seen marks like that too many times in the past
Her nostrils twitched and she stared at Bobby’s bloody form
The cops there--the captain, the three uys
No shifters
But a shifter had been here He’d killed
And she knew there was a shifter close by, one who didn’t mind a little blood and who sure had a hard-on for Bobby
Jude
Her steps were very precise as she turned and left the holding area Once she was clear, her fingers knotted into fists, and she stor back to face the hunter
Jude stretched his legs out, letting the heels of his boots press into the old floor He didn’t glance at his watch, but he figured Erin had been with the body about eight minutes or so now and--
Click Click Click
The sound of fast-approaching high heels
He glanced up
And saw Erin bearing down on hi?
She stalked right up to him, put her hands on the hips he’d like to touch and demanded, "What did you do?"
Whoa Jude stood up, slowly, aware that he towered over her slender figure and using that to his advantage "I think you’ve got the wrong idea here, sweetheart"
"I aer into his chest "You think I don’t knohat got a hold of that bastard?"
Her voice was fierce, but pitched low enough that only he would be able to hear her "I recognize the work of clahen I see
’erowl than anything else He cleared his throat, tried again It was hard to speak nor his nose, and with the beast roaring "I told you, if I wanted him dead, he wouldn’t have made it out of that swamp"
"You knehat I’d find in that cell" A pause, just for a beat of time "How’d you know, hunter? Because you’d been the one to send Bobby to hell? Just had to put a sreet the devil with?"
He grabbed her hand, tired of her fingernail digging into his chest "I didn’t do it, sweetheart I’ve got an alibi I was at Night Watch and at least four other agents can attest to that" Good thing, too He rotated his shoulders No e
"How did you know? " Gritted fro to look a bit sharper than before
He al about a dead body and if they hadn’t been surrounded by cops
"I’ve got a friend in the department He called me" Because he owed me and because the sly bastard knew he’d need my help Just like she would
Erin just didn’t want to admit it yet
"What Friend?"
"A, you can’t expect me to--"
"What Friend!" Her voice wasn’t soft anylanced their way "Tellyou’re--"
"It wassouthern voice said
Erin’s head whipped to the left and her mouth dropped open as she stared at Antonio "Bullshit"
He s his perfectly capped, too-white teeth The teeth looked even whiter next to his caraotten courtesy of his very lovely Mexican mother "’Fraid so, Ms Jerome ’Fraid so"
"Why?"
"Because I’m not quite as clueless as you seem to think I am" His voice was low but fierce "And one look at that body told me the cops in that room weren’t suspects" He jerked his thumb toward Jude "But one of his kind sure as hell was"
She froze Then, it was as if a veil fell over her face Erin’s expression cleared, until only a false mask remained "His kind?
What’s that supposed to ood If she hadn’t just been snarling at hiht her confused act