He turned to Cooper, who was watching him with a knowing smirk. “I’m going to kill her myself,” he told him. “Details, Balan, now.”
I jumped at his barked command and then raced to tell him. “It was a letter and three pictures of me sleeping in my bed at home.”
“What did the letter say?” Cooper asked. “Where was it posted from?”
“Um . . .” My mind was blank. “Um . . . it had no postmark. It said . . .” I paused. “It said . . .”
“You forgot what your stalker wrote to you?” Onyx asked me with a flat tone.
“I did,” I admitted. “Running!” I exclaimed loudly. “It said the weak ran, and I was weak and I hadn’t run far enough. Or something like that.”
“Where is it?” Onyx asked through clenched teeth.
“In the drawer of my desk.”
His mobile was in his hand. “Where are you?” He turned his back on me. “No, detour.” He paused. “My office. The vampire has evidence in her desk drawer. Cooper needs it.” He hung up and turned to Cooper. “Explain.”
“The feed was fine. I have it on constantly, nothing but housekeeping and one maintenance guy, but he’s banging the maid that was here this afternoon,” his eye flicked to mine, “before she changed your sheets. Don’t worry, she brought them out afterward,” he added with a wink. “Vampire was back in her room around nine, nothing else happened, the alarm went off at one-seventeen, which it would as soon as someone touched the camera, and then the feed went dark.”
“How long before you noticed and we were here?” Onyx said as he moved to stand at the window.
“Twenty-four minutes.”
“Too long,” Onyx muttered as he checked his phone. “You called me at one thirty-four,” he said. “You were here seven minutes later; she could have already been bleeding out.”
“You were together?” I asked them both.
“I got here first,” Onyx said, but he didn’t look at me.
“How’d you get in?” I asked him.
“I used my key.”
I swallowed and looked at Cooper, whose face was blank, so I returned my attention to Onyx. “What key?”
“The key that reception duplicated for me when I asked for one to this room the first day you checked in.” His dead stare cut through me.
“You can get into my room?” I asked as I looked between them both. “Both of you?”
“Charlie too,” Cooper added. Whether he was being helpful or a dick, I wasn’t sure. I opted for the latter.
“I don’t think I like that,” I said as I rubbed my hands over my legs.
“I don’t think I give a fuck,” Onyx bit out. “I told you not to stay here, but you didn’t listen, so I need to make sure that I can get to you when you need me.”
“All of you?” I asked him angrily. “And you don’t deem it necessary to tell me? My God, Onyx, I have a guy breaking into my home and fucking with my head, but you don’t think the small detail of you and your merry band of fucking psychos having the key to my hotel room is adetailyou need toshare?”
“I’m going to go,” Cooper said as he stood. “And check my camera,” he added. “I’ll be back for the rest of what I need,” he then added to Onyx.
My attention stayed fixed on the Devil in front of me. I watched him nod acknowledgment to Cooper, and he waited until the door to the suite closed behind his friend.
“You asked for my help,” he began as he gave me his full attention. “I told you that we would take care of this, and then after seeing me on my bed in my home, you became a coward, and you left. Fooling yourself into thinking you could do this yourself, when we both know you left my house that morning because you don’t want to think about what could happen if you stayed under my roof.”
“Are you serious?” I asked him in disbelief. “You think I left your house because I want tosleepwith you?”
“Yes.”
“You are out-of-your-mind, batshit, fucking deranged,” I yelled at him.
