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“Simon Lawrence Chase.”
Dee’s fingers tightened around the phone when Grace began. So she ran background checks on all her potential lovers, what was wrong with that? A woman had to be safe. These days, you never knew what you were dragging home.
“Age thirty-four.”
Really? It’d been so hard to judge his age, he could have been younger or?—
“Born in New Orleans, he left when he decided to be all he could be.”
Military? With that long hair? Hmmm. “He’s not still serving.” Dee was definite on that.
“No. Looks like he went Merc for a while,” Grace said.
Merc. Mercenary. Yeah, she could see that. A brief hesitation, then she asked the most important question, “Any sign he’s more than human?”
“Negative.”
Her shoulders relaxed. She’d had a demon lover once or twice. They weren’t anything to complain about, for sure, they’d been phenomenal in the sack, but a human?—
I can control him.
“There’s…something else, though, Dee. Something you should know.”
Fantastic. Always something to spoil her party. “What is it?”
“The records show his parents were killed a few years back. It went down as a B and E gone bad, but…”
“But you’re telling me it wasn’t a breaking and entering? It was more?” Often was.
“Jewelry was snatched, the TVs and a computer were missing, and the parents—Janice and Ned Chase—had their throats slit.”
A slit throat. The easiest way to cover a vamp attack.
“I made a call to a coroner I know down in New Orleans.” One of the reasons Grace was so good at Intel—the woman had connections everywhere. “Seems there wasn’t enough blood at the scene to match the severity of the wounds.”
Because the parasites had drained them dry. Huh. No wonder the guy knew so much about vampires.
Personal experience.
Just like me. “Thanks, Grace. I owe you.”
Silence, then very softly, “No, you don’t.”
The call ended and Dee clenched the phone tight. He’d passed the screening, and his past was as screwed up as her own.
She swallowed. He was safe.
Or as safe as a lover could be for her.
Her fingers tapped quickly on her phone as she made the next call. There was no hesitation this time. No stupid voice whispering in her mind, no?—
“Dee.”
Just that, her name. Breathed with need as he answered. With the same lust that was tightening her nipples and making her sex clench.
Oh, boy. Her own breath came out in a hard rush. Course he would have known she was calling. In this techno crazy age, he probably already knew as much about her as she did about him.
“Where are you?” he asked, a dark demand.
