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“Let her go, damn you!” Erin sank her own claws into his side and twisted.
He howled in fury and pain, and he tossed Dee into the air. When she came down, Dee hit the ground with a thud, and she didn’t get up.
Dee!
His head turned, just a few inches, and Harper met Erin’s stare. His brown eyes were muddy, so dark, and the grin on his face chilled her. “Always knew you liked the blood. Just like me.”
“I’m nothing like you!” She jumped back, putting some frantic space between them. She could really have used Jude right then! When Dee had called for backup, she’d called Night Watch and Antonio. Not Jude and Zane. Dee had thought they were in the middle of their trap. Thought they were catching the stalker.
But he’d come for her, instead.
Harper raised a hand to his side. His fingers touched the blood that pulsed and flowed so hotly. “Wanted to do this...in human form.”
Her claws were up, ready. “Do what?”Hot Harper? Lance Harper?His name blasted through her head over and over again. She’d been in his courtroom so many times, been so close to him, and never suspected.
He’d tried to rape her. He’d killed. Tortured.
The judge?
She shook her head. No, no, this didn’t make a bit of sense.
He watched her with those dark eyes, and his blood splattered on to the ground. He didn’t seem to notice or even to care. “You disappointed me, mate.”
Mate.“I’mnotyour mate.”
The judge blinked at that response, looking vaguely surprised. “Well, of course, you are. I recognized you the first moment you stepped into my courtroom.” His smile had faded completely. “I divorced my third wife for you.”
Divorced my third wife.Erin guessed she was lucky he hadn’t killed the woman. “There’s no way you could have known from one look that I was your mate.”Keep him talking.Backup would arrive soon. Had to. Just how many bullets would he be able to take and keep standing? Because when Antonio arrived, she knew he’d unload on the judge.
“I knew the second I caught your scent that you were mine.”
Bullshit. She hoped. Her eyes narrowed. “So what? You decided to make my lifehellbecause you liked the way I smelled?”
He jumped toward her. Harper closed the distance in less than a second.Stronger than me. Faster than me.Dammit!
His fingers wrapped around her arms, and she felt the sting of his claws. His breath—freaking minty breath—blew in her face. “I gave youeverythingyou wanted. I punished the fools who hurt you or got in your way. I made sure your life was perfect.”
Insane.There was a reason for the whispers about wolves being psychotic. Some of them really were. “Youkilled.You murdered Donald Trent!”
The claws dug deeper. “Because you wanted him stopped.” His teeth snapped together and a frown pulled his brows low, as if he truly didn’t understand. “If I’d found him guilty in court, he would have been out in what? Two, three years?” He grunted. “Not good enough for you. You wanted more—so I gave you more! I stopped him, permanently.”
“You buried him in the woods behind his kids’ house!”
The right side of his mouth lifted. “Thought it was fitting.”
No, it was insane.
“I just had to go and watch the cops dig him up. So fucking perfect.”
Erin could only stare at him. Why hadn’t she seen the madness before? Why hadn’t the cops? All the other lawyers?
The insanity had hid so well behind his black robes.
His gaze swept over her face. “When you walked in that first day, I thought you were the most perfect thing I’d ever seen. Just likeher,that same fire burning inside.” He jerked Erin closer. “I knew when I saw you then, Iknewwhy fate had put that bastard in Theresa’s path so many years before.”
What?Her heart iced. “H-how do you know my mother’s name?” The mother who lay dying just a few feet away. She’d risked her life to save Erin from this bastard.
