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"Lee!" He didn’t ," Jude said "But I don’t know for how ers curled over the side of the door, and he yanked

The door broke loose and fell to the ground

Erin crawled inside the car "Lee! It’s okay Help’s co!" Still alive Finally, she’d reached soave a ain Voices floated to her The EMTs They were running down the ravine now, having the saet him out They’d be able to save hi

Because his shirt was drenched with blood

Too ash that went too deep

She sed "You’ll be all right" Lie

His eyes opened "T-To to stay calm "Lee, who--"

"L-love y-you, s-son…" His eyes fell closed His breath came out in a soft rush

"Lee? Lee!"

"His heart’s stopped!" Jude’s snarl He stepped back and yelled, "Get your asses over here, now! He needs help!"

"Lee?" Her whisper

Then Jude’s arms were around her and he hauled her back A woman in a blue EMT uniform pushed by her, followed i

Wasn’t breathing

Too late

Again

Story of her life

And Lee’s death

Erin watched the swirl of red lights fade away The EMTs had gotten Lee’s heart started again, but they’d been grim about his chances for survival

"How the hell did you two even knoas down there?" Antonio’s fierce voice He’d arrived on the scene less than ten o

Erin shook her head The ambulance had vanished around a curve "We…saw the car ere passing through"

She’d called 911 on her cell phone Antonio wouldn’t be able to prove her story wasn’t legit Provided, of course, that Jude backed her up

Antonio grunted "Uh-huh What, the two of you decided to go for an earlylike that," Judeto tell Antonio about her dreaonna die, Erin? You know, right? You can see everything

When aonna die? She’d been a freak shohen she lived with her mother’s people

The voices from her past needed to learn how to shut the hell up someti roads Recipe for fucking disaster, especially with the rains we had"

Erin stiffened No, no, that wasn’t right

Flawed

Her father had been able to see all sorts of deaths Those easy passings that came in sleep Those tearful last moments surrounded by family and friends

Not her

Erin only saw the brutal deaths Those caused by the hand of another Blood-soaked

Murders

"I think you better check the scene" Not an accident No way Not if she’d dreaaze snapped to her "What do you know, Jeroht, and Erin knew she was, there would be signs Skid marks on the road Paint fro

Lee had been forced off the road Left to die

Not an accident Not some bad slip of fate

Deliberate Cold

The man had enemies, everyone knew that But Antonio would have to find out just who hated the lawyer enough to kill him

Antonio raised one dark eyebrow "Ruue Went yesterday"

Erin tensed Word traveled too fast in this town "We’re lawyers That’s we do Argue "

"Umm…"

Noas that supposed to mean?

"Just strikes me as odd First the perp you’re after winds up slashed and s, and now the attorney who pissed you off in court is barely breathing"

Her own breath caught "You think I’m involved in this?"

"She ith ht"

Antonio’s eyes widened, just a bit But the guy didn’t look intiaze darted over her

"Like that, huh? Hunter, you work fast"

Her face flamed "You’re an asshole, Antonio"

He lifted a brow "Got to question things,the report that landed on ot the call about this accident"

Jude stepped toward him "The blood froht"

She glanced back and forth between the two ood She didn’t need the fist knotting in her gut to tell her that Daed to Bobby Burrows"

Her eyes closed

"Nohy the hell would the stalker--you said you had a stalker after you--kill old Bobby and leave his blood dripping onto your pretty hardwood floors?"

"Because he’s a sick freak!" And he was giving Bobby to h of his presents to know his routine If someone pissed her off, if someone hurt her, he stepped in

I keep you safe, when you don’t even know it

Bile rose in her throat She had argued with Lee Antonio had that part right Had the stalker asshole been there, watching?

And she hadn’t even known it?

And, oh, hell, had he gone after Lee, too? Because of her?

"Has to be a reason the guy killed Bobby," Antonio continued "This shit’s never random"

No, it wasn’t She opened her eyes to find the captain watching her

Weighing her