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"Did you recognize him?" the detective asked

"Yes, he was the man who tried to force e I assu I had infor Danny Massaro, the man I intended to serve a warrant on"

Alicia took a deep breath So far, so good Everything she’d said was the absolute truth

Detective Simpson scribbled some notes, then looked up at her "How could you see him so clearly? The rooht How did you know him?"

She’d seen him because she was a wolf She would have sworn, if she didn’t know any better, that her heart had stopped beating But with her silence, her trying to come up with an explanation, the way her body heated with panicked concern, she worried she was signing these men’s death warrants or fates as olves if she didn’t coave a little nonchalant shrug, never taking her eyes off the detective, not wanting to see how Darien and the others were reacting or what the other detective was doing Watching her? Watching them? She knew that if she saw their expressions, she’d fall apartnow

"I assumed it was him from his build and the way he walked When he was at the restaurant, he reruntled bear I suppose, in retrospect, I didn’t really know for sure who he was until I felt his pulse after I shot him Once I’d seen him up close, I realized it was hined annoyance "I forgot where I left off"

She wondered if that had been a ploy on the detective’s part to disconcert her Or if he was used to asking questions when they popped into hisher the question She just wished she hadn’t ain, she supposed that e in his notebook and said, "You said you heard him jerk the shower curtain aside in the bathroom"

"Oh Yes When he realized I wasn’t in the bathroom, he returned to the bedroom That’s when he saw un and fired I responded by firing three tiht, I was able to pinpoint hiun and sank to the floor I worried others ht be with him because the men usually travel in pairs, so I ran to lock the door, then checked his pulse to see if he was still alive He wasn’t

"I dressed" She’d been naked She couldn’t tell the detective that Wouldn’t he wonder why? She faltered "I own and into jeans and a sweatshirt"

Now she sounded damned suspicious He could have assuetting rattled Calm down, she told herself She sed hard, her throat dry as a drought in summer Now she wished she’d had some water to drink But if she asked for any, she’d sound like she was getting nervous because she was guilty of a cri her eye and everyone else’s She wished she was free to go also

"Go on, Miss Greiston," the detective prompted

"I went to call the police, but when I punched in the number and held the receiver to my ear, I discovered the phone line was dead My cell phone battery had run down so I was charging it and hoped it would work I was able to use it to call 9-1-1 But then another et in He tried the doorknob, found it locked, and then began kicking the door in"

This was the hard part How had she gotten past two ar herself killed? The one had undoubtedly leftwildly into the sky But she hadn’t had her gun with her Not when she’d been tearing out of there as a wolf And she’d left the gun behind, along with her cell phone and purse and everything How could she have ed to escape them as a woman without any weapons?

"So only one other man was there?" the detective asked, pen and brows raised

If there was only one other, the detective ured she had slipped past him and then he fired at her butmen? But what if there had been eyewitnesses? Oh,lot?

"Miss Greiston?"

She jerked her head up to look at hi in the dark The one went to check on the guy I’d… killed, while the other hurried into the bathroo for me At least I presume I dashed outside So and never looked back"

Tolass of water and handed it to her

"Thank you," sheher she was doing fine "Thank you," she said again and took a s of the cold water

"Did you have a dog with you in the roo aze