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Erin shook her head. They were starting to attract attention. The other cops who’d arrived on the scene were eyeing them with outright curiosity, and, once the news about Bobby’s blood leaked—and it would leak—she’d be kissing her new life goodbye.
And she’d barely had time to unpack.
He’d found her too fast. Or maybe he’d never lost her. Goose bumps rose on her arms.
Antonio’s eyes tightened to slits. “I want to know everything about this bastard, you got me?”
“Fucking ease up, Tony.”Jude’s hands fisted. “Don’t push this now. We’ll both come to the station, but not now.”
Not when they had such an eager audience.
Antonio gave a grim nod and spun on his heel, calling out to the uniforms, “Rake the scene! Every damn inch.”
After a beat of time, Jude turned to face her. “More secrets, huh, sweetheart?”
Her heart almost broke, but her chin lifted. “We can’t be sure that jerk after me had anything to do with Lee’s accident.” But her instincts said he did. “Lee’s a defense attorney. Victims, criminals—they can all get pissed at him.”
“Pissed enough to try killing him?”
Maybe.
Or maybe her Romeo was out there, grinning his ass off. “Let’s get out of here.” She couldn’t stand out there with the cops and the wreckage any longer. She marched away, or tried to in the muck and mud, not waiting for him.
“Erin! Erin, shit!” The rustle of his clothes and the slog of his footsteps sounded behind her. He grabbed her arm. “Wait.”
His hold jerked her toward him and Erin glared up at his face. “Not now, hunter.”
“Yeah, you keep saying that.” His nose nearly brushed against hers as he brought his face in close. “Newsflash, sweetheart, the bastard after youkilleda man. This isn’t some game!”
“Ineverthought it was!”
“I’m gonna bring him down, but everything you know about him, every single thing that has happened to you because of him—I have to know.”
Erin exhaled on a hard breath and knew there was no choice. “Okay.”
How would he look at her, she wondered, when he learned the truth?
At least I had one night with Jude.
One wild night.
* * *
Just how many secrets was the woman keeping?
Jude sat at his desk, eyes on the computer screen before him, but not really seeing the damned thing.Erin.
The woman was fire in his hands. The hottest, sexiest thing in bed he’d ever seen. And she was dangerous. So dangerous. Because she’d been lying to him.
Erin had a freaking twisted killer on her trail. One the cops couldn’t catch or stop, so yeah, maybe she had a reason for the skittishness he saw when he looked into her eyes.
But there was more. Heknewit.
“So, stayed at the girlfriend’s last night, huh?” Zane asked as he strode into Jude’s office. He always made himself right at home. Boundaries didn’t exist so much for Zane.
Jude grunted and rubbed a hand over his bleary eyes. He’d stayed at the crash site, keeping an eye on the uniforms and the crime scene guys, and sure enough, they’d found black paint on the side of Lee Givens’s car.
He’d been forced off the road. No doubt in Jude’s mind. But was the attack tied to Erin?
