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Her scar.
How had she forgotten? Shit, shit! How had she forgotten that?
She should have turned off the light.
Shifters can see in the dark.She knew that!
His fingers rubbed lightly over the raised flesh just below her left breast.
A claw mark.
Jude withdrew from her, a long, slow glide, and Erin had to bite back the plea for him to stay, to thrust deep again.
Again.
The passion was gone, at least for him. He was looking at her now with intense eyes and a hard face. Looking at her like she was a victim, dammit. Not a woman. Before, she’d been a woman with him. Now?—
Erin spun away from him. She ripped what was left of the sheet loose as she moved, using it to cover her body.
How could I have forgotten? I see the thing every day.
“Who marked you?” Fury there, boiling beneath the surface of his voice.
She rose from the bed, careful not to move too fast. Didn’t want it to look like she was running. Even if she was.
Erin clenched her thighs, feeling a quiver in her sex.So good.But good things didn’t last long in her life.
At least Jude hadn’t gone running from her, even when she’d used her claws and teeth.
“Who fucking marked you?”
She turned back to face him.
Jude jumped from the bed, naked and damn sexy still, and grabbed her arms. The sheet slipped to the floor.
“That bastard did it, didn’t he? You said you’d never seen him, you said he hadn’t got close to you!”
Time for some truth. “I lied.”
At first, the wound had bled like a bitch. She’d left a trail of her blood on the street when she’d fled. But, lucky for her, she could heal without shifting. So her skin had mended, well,as close to mending as it could, and though her bleeding had stopped by the time she’d reached safety, she’d been left with his mark on her body. The wound had been too deep and long to heal perfectly.
“What happened?”
From wild sex back to business. Not the way she would have liked to spend the afterglow moments. Erin swallowed. “Not tonight, Jude, okay? I don’t want to talk about this now.” Not while her body still vibrated with the pleasure he’d given her. Not while she could still taste him.
Not while she could almost feel him inside.
She didn’t want to go back to that other night right then.
Not now.
He stared down at her, a muscle flexing along his jaw.
“Not tonight,” she repeated.
Silence. Then, when her heart was squeezing because she didn’t want to go back there, he gave a grim nod. “But wewilltalk about it, Erin. I’m working this case for you. I need to know everything that’s happened.”
She licked her lips. “Tomorrow, okay? Tomorrow.”
