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Zeke nodded No one else had heard, either Just that it was over a girl
"I’ll head out then" Gene opened the door, slid fro Zeke alone to stare at the coroner’s initial report that was lying on the desk
Joe pu over a girl didn’tabout their deaths added up or pointed hiht direction to look for evidence All Zeke had was the fact that it was identical to a method the exterminator used He kneas, because his father had told hier When he, too, had been a part of the Freedoue
He rubbed at his jaw, sat back in his chair, and visualized the ain The TV remote and the half a bottle of beer But the television had been turned off
There had been no drugs in the house, though Joe and Jaiers to a little ht, he hadn’t even tried to coun in hishis brother
There were no signs of tears on his face or in his eyes There were no defensive wounds to indicate he had beenit
He closed his eyes and let the scene for off there
Soal, so turned off, the remote in the exact position it would have been if it had fallen from Jaime’s hand
There had been traces of marijuana in Jaime’s systele trackmore He’d shot up only once and killed his brother while under the drug’s influence
Zeke knew it hadn’t happened that way
His eyes opened, his lips co as he rose from the desk and jerked his hat from the desk where he’d tossed it
He wanted to see the scene again, reure this out The mobile home may have been blown to hell, but the ashes were still there, and Zeke could remember how it had been when he’d found the bodies
Joe had shot up only once Just that single tied to shoot him up and walk into that mobile home with him Once there, the unsub had shot Jaime, then killed Joe
Zeke left the office and headed fronoring the sharp pang of longing he felt at the sound of apast the sheriff’s departue Wild hellion curls weren’t flowing back fro, devil , he knew It was her afternoon at the restaurant, and if nothing else, Rogue was damned dependable in what she did
He was the inconsistent one He’d lusted after her for years and fought against it He’d kissed her, then pushed her away He ordered her not to bring another man between them, but he made damned certain he stayed as far away from her as possible And when that hadn’t worked he’d at least tried to give her pleasure and satisfaction before walking away again Staying away froht hio to her, not to take what he knew he could have, what she would willingly give him
Twenty-six She enty-six years old Slender, delicate Pixy wasn’t far off when describing her She barely topped his chest She was fragile She wasn’t strong-boned; she wasn’t ht blow her away, but still, she wasn’t skinny She was slender Rounded where a woile, he had to remind himself as he pulled himself into the official Tahoe emblazoned with the Pulaski County sheriff’s seal
He could fuck all night, hts He was so damned testosterone driven that there were times he cursed it When ra, Zeke still had the stamina he had had ten years before Hell, there were tiotten older
It was a Mayes ed All Mayesdick and lots of fire, his father had been known to tell anyone who cared to listen
It was definitely a Mayes trait, and one he wasn’t happy with at theto help his flesh get happy, then it ue both Neither of them needed the complications that would come from the relationship he feared would evolve
Because the fire wasn’t the only Mayes trait Zeke loved sex; he just ed to keep his lusts reined in and tried to turn the for coive thee to Shane’s mother had suffered beneath the desires that often torers or the needs that Zeke knew; he’d realized that with his wife before her death
He’d had to hide his needs because of her distaste of them After her death, he’d learned there were more women like her than he’d realized He was the odd one, the one that needed to put a handle on his unruly fantasies and needs
He hadn’t thought he was odd when he lived in LA, when the friends he’d made there had revealed their own darker desires He didn’t share his women What was his was his, but damn, he liked to push them sexually
He liked to play, to tereet and wild He loved seeing a lover with a black blindfold, his handcuffs circling her wrists, bare flesh between her thighs, sweet syrup glistening on feminine folds, and the heated flush of her flesh fro
Or better Ah, even better A pretty, shapely ass raised for hi as he invaded a tender, sensitive little rear
Perverted, his wife had called hie for days if he even tried to touch her there And God forbid he shouldher The insults she’d thrown at him over that one had been nearly as bad the ones that had coested she shave or wax her pussy
He was a hard lover It was a part of hi he’d sworn he wouldn’t deny himself after his wife’s death, only to learn thata woman who enjoyed the kinkier sex was easier said than done The women he’d had affairs with liked their ood But it was like having steak ht Sometimes, a man craved a little variety, a little spice to his ue was definitely spice All the more reason to stay the hell away froue stretched out on his bed, her pretty violet eyes hidden by a silk blindfold, her hands cuffed, her little rear lifted to him