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She caught his arm. “I told you, no one else is here.” Plump lips tightened. “The bastard delivered his message and ran.”
“Some message.” Not every day a woman got a love letter in blood.
Her fingers tightened around him. “I need your help.”
“You need the cops. What the hell? You’ve got some psycho ex-lover stalking you—” With freaking blood.
“Not my lover.” She shook her head. “Never that.”
“Call. The. Cops.”
“Some jobs aren’t meant for the cops.”
“And some are, sweetheart. You’re an ADA—you know this shit.” She should. But he’d worked with victims before, and he knew that even the professionals would forget the rules when the deadly games became personal. “Erin, when someone breaks into your house and leaves?—”
“He’sOther.”
He’d figured that. Well, eitherOtheror seriously fucked up human.
In this case, it looked like the bastard was one seriously fucked upOther.
“The cops can still track him,” Jude argued.
“No one can track him. The bastard’s too good at hiding.” She exhaled, and, for a moment, he thought he saw...calculation in her gaze.
He tensed.
Be careful with the ladies, Jude. You can’t always trust a pretty face.His grandfather’s warning. Given right before his senior prom, the night Susie Jo Hill had left him on the dance floor to make out with the quarterback.
He’d pounded the quarterback and come away with the scar on his lip, courtesy of a big-ass class ring and a lucky punch. Then he’d left a furious Susie Jo shouting on her doorstep.
Erin was no Susie Jo. She was something much, much more dangerous.
Her hand fell away from him and damn if he didn’t miss her touch. Not. Good.
“I’ve got a stalker, Jude. A guy who has been trailing me and making my life hell for the last year.” Her eyes held his.
A stab of pain in his palms made him realize that his claws were out. He unfisted his hands and the claws sprang to their full length.
Erin didn’t so much as blink.
“I came here to get away from him,” she said. Her shoulders were straight, her chin up, but she still looked vulnerable.
And that made him want to roar with fury.
“Hescares me. I’ve caught his scent before. This isn’t the first time he’s come inside my home. He’s a shifter, I know that much.”
A shifter.Like me.No wonder the lady hadn’t been so wild about gettin’ down and dirty with him.
“I-I don’t know where he got the blood.” She glanced over her shoulder at the painted wall and shuddered. “What if he hurt someone? What if...”
Oh, the odds were good that he had indeed hurt someone. “We’ve got to bring Antonio in on this.” That much blood, yeah, someone had beenhurt.“It’s human blood.”
Her gaze darted back to his. “I know.” Whispered. And she looked like she was going to be sick right then. Her hand rose to her mouth as she paled.
“Erin...”
She shook her head, sending silky locks tossing back and forth. After a moment, her hand dropped. “He thinks he’s giving me a present, don’t you see? A gift. But I’m—I’m not like him.”You.Her eyes said it, even if her mouth didn’t. “The blood sickens me.”
