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Jude took the check. Finally. She dropped her fingers, not wanting the skin on skin contact with him. Not then.
He folded the check and tucked it into the back pocket of his jeans. “Guess you just got yourself a bounty hunter.”
“And I guess you’ve got yourself one sick shifter to catch.”
He closed the distance between them, moving fast and catching her arms in a strong grip. And it was just like before. The heat of his touch swept through her, waking hungers she’d deliberately denied for so long.
Jude was sexual. From his knowing eyes, his curving, kiss-me lips, to the hard lines and muscles of his body.
Deep inside—in the dark, secret places of her soul that she fought to keep hidden—there was a part of her just like that. Wild. Hot.
Sexual.
“Why are you afraid of me?”
Not the question she’d expected, but one she could answer. “I know what you are. What sane woman wouldn’t be afraid of a man who becomes an animal?”
“Some women like a little bit of the animal in their men.”
“Not me.”Liar.
His eyes said the same thing.
“Do your job, Donovan. Catch the freak who cut up my prisoner?—”
“Like Bobby had been slashing his victims?”
Hit.Yes, there’d been no way to miss that significance.
“When word gets out about what really happened, some folks will say Bobby deserved what he got.” His fingers pressed into her arms. Erin wore a light, silk shirt—and even that seemed too hot for the humid Louisiana spring night. His touch burned through the blouse and seemed to singe her flesh.
“Some will say that,” she allowed. Okay, a hell of a lot would say that. “But his killer still has to be caught.” Stopped, because she had the feeling this could be just the beginning.
Her feelings about death weren’t often wrong. She was a lot like her dad that way. And, unfortunately, like her mother, too.
“What do you think? Did he deserve to be clawed to death?”
An image of Bobby’s ex-wife, Pat, flashed before her eyes. The doctors had put over one hundred and fifty stitches into her face. She’d been his most brutal attack.
Erin swallowed. “His punishment was for the court to decide.” She stepped back, but he didn’t let her go. “Uh, do you mind?”
“Yeah, I do.” His eyes glittered down at her. “If we’re gonna be working together, we need honesty between us.”
“We needyouto find the killer.”
“Oh, I will. Don’t worry about that. I always catch my prey.”
So the rumors claimed. The hunters from Night Watch were known throughout the U.S.
“You’re shivering, Erin.”
“No, no, I’m not.” She was.
“I make you nervous. I scare you.” A pause. His gaze dropped to her lips, lingered, then slowly rose back to meet her stare. “Is it because I know what you are?”
She wanted his mouth on hers. A foolish desire. Ridiculous. Not something the controlled woman wanted, but what the wild thing inside craved. “You don’t know anything about me.”
“Don’t I?”
