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“Yeah, that’s something I look for in a man.”
Liam frowned. “Really?”
“Sarcasm,” Marty said. “Try to keep up.”
Kris had forgotten just how annoying her brother could be.
“Now get out,” Marty continued.
“No.”
“Kris, tell him I won’t hurt you.”
“He won’t hurt me,” she repeated.
“Dinnae be so sure.” Liam pulled a paper from his pocket and handed it to her.
Kris glanced at the sheet, which appeared to be a random list of dates and places. “What’s this?”
Liam, still staring at Marty as if he expected her brother to break into song and dance, or perhaps just break his nose, lifted his chin. “Ask him.”
Kris handed the list to Marty, who took it, read it, and frowned. “You had me investigated?” Strangely, his voice sounded more impressed than angry.
Liam dipped his chin in assent.
“Why?” Kris asked.
“Ye didnae think it odd he just showed up? After all this time he suddenly wants to bond—in a foreign country no less—with the sister he abandoned.”
“I did not—,” Marty began.
“Ye did. Ye say ye had yer reasons, and we will get to those, but ye left her, and ye didnae come back, and it pains her. So I wondered what brought ye here, and why now? Now, when we have a wee problem of our own.”
Click. Kris could have sworn she actually heard the puzzle piece slip into place in her mind. “I need that list back.”
Marty handed it over.
“What is it?” Liam asked.
“Hold on.” Kris booted up her computer, accessed her e-mail, and downloaded what Edward had sent her.
The lists matched.
CHAPTER 22
Kris opened what she now thought of as the gun drawer, picked up the weapon, and pointed it at Marty. “Liam, move away from him.”
Kris was shocked that she could point a gun that was no doubt loaded with silver bullets at her brother, who just might be a shape-shifter, and neither her voice nor her hands shook.
Liam came to stand at her side. “Are ye daft?”
“You’re the one who investigated him.”
“I didnae find a shooting offense.”
“I did.” She decided to leave Edward out of it. “The places Marty’s traveled match a list of places where there have been murders that appear to be the work of a local legend.”
Her brother’s lips curved. “Loup-garou outside of Paris. Hyena shifter in Ethiopia. Giant in Tasmania.”
