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She didn’t deny it. “You have some fine- looking goods, Sheriff. ” She laughed. “But it doesn’t answer my question. ”
“Just as you didn’t answer mine,” he pointed out.
She shrugged at that as she turned her head away for long moments. “Call it instinct,”
she finally said, turning back to look at him. “I knew you could satisfy me. Your turn. ”
Oh, there was more. She thought she was in love with him. Zeke could see it in her eyes.
He wondered how long it would take her to realize that love was no more than a carefully contrived deception.
But she wanted answers, and they were answers he knew would hurt her.
“You’re temptation,” he finally answered her. “Young, wild, sweet. Every dirty old man’s fantasy. ”
She seemed to flinch. “Oh, so I’m your midlife crisis? I wonder what that makes Janey to Alex. You are so full of crap, Zeke. ”
He snorted at that. “Alex doesn’t come with the same baggage I come with, Rogue,” he told her, shaking his head. “You’re young, and you’re innocent. ”
“And you want to tie me down and fuck my ass until I’m screaming for mercy,” she drawled. “You want me blindfolded, spanked, and insane from wanting you. You want to get nasty with me, Sheriff, and you’re terrified of losing all that perfect control of yours. ”
He snapped his teeth together, his hands clenched the steering wheel, and he fought to keep the vision of those acts out of his head. If he didn’t think about them, they wouldn’t torment him nearly as much.
She leaned closer. “You want to get rough and wild with me, Zeke. So bad it’s like a hunger. ”
“Are you finished yet?” He kept his expression hard, unemotional. He’d managed to keep his control for years now, he wasn’t going to let go now.
She stared back at him for long moments before something resembling resignation flashed in her eyes. “Yes, I’m finished now,” she finally said. “Don’t bother seeing me upstairs. I know the way. ” She reached for the door handle.
“Rogue. I didn’t take you out to fuck you tonight. I need to talk to you. ”
“We’ve been talking. ” Her eyes were filled with shadows now, with pain. “What more is there to say?”
“This investigation into the twins’ deaths, and their grandmother’s,” he stated. “I called Lisa this evening and convinced her to go stay with her aunt in Louisville. I want you to leave town for a while as well. Until I figure out what the hell is going on. Until it?
??s safe. ”
She was still, silent. Zeke stared back at her, watching as what he said sank into that quick little mind of hers.
“You think someone is killing Walkers?” she asked.
“I think Joe and Jaime were messing with the wrong girl,” he told her. “I believe their grandmother was killed because she might have known who that girl was. Joe and Jaime kept her a secret for the most part, but Grandmother Walker thought she might have known who the girl was. She told Lisa she was trying to contact me to tell me who it was, but she died before she could get ahold of me. You and Lisa were close to the twins. Someone could be afraid you might remember who the girl was as well. ”
Someone could kill her. Zeke hadn’t forgotten what it felt like six months ago, staring down at her unconscious form in a hospital bed after she had been attacked over something someone was afraid she knew. He couldn’t imagine it happening again, or worse, finding her dead.
“So you want me to leave town for my own good?” she questioned him carefully.
“Go home to Boston,” he told her. “You weren’t meant to put up with the bullshit you’ve put up with here. See what it feels like to be Caitlyn Walker again rather than the rebel Rogue. I have a feeling you might like it more than you think you will. ”
“So, you think I should just walk away? Just forget about my home, my bar, and my friends?”
“You’re home is a trashy little apartment over a bar full of thieves and drunks,” he ground out between clenched teeth. “Your friends consist of Janey Mackay and her family, and it took you years to let down your guard enough to accept them as friends. ”
“What about you?” she whispered. “We were friends once. ”
“We were never friends, Rogue,” he snapped. “I was the one man that didn’t stand up and beg for a treat whenever you were near. I was a challenge. Now we’ve both had our fun, it’s time to face reality. You’re in danger here. Fucking go home before it’s too late to realize where you belong and you’re dead. ”
Rogue stared back at him for long, silent moments. No tears filled her eyes, no pain creased her face. Bitterness flashed in her violet gaze though as she seemed to straighten her shoulders and stared back at him relentlessly.
