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Sakura appeared beside Adam and, without fear, curled fingers over his claws. Adam huffed, and she patted his head. He ducked away but stayed alert. The man stared at him wide-eyed and licking dry lips.
“Go ahead,” she prompted.
The man’s gaze never left Adam’s. “I don’t know who she was but—”
“She?” Sakura interrupted.
“Si, a woman. She said she would pay us good money to get rid of you two.” He pointed to Sakura, but when he started to point to Adam, Adam growled, and the man bit his finger as if that would undo the insult. “You and your boyfriend.”
“What makes you so sure you had the right target?”
The man dug in the back of his ratty jeans pocket and removed crinkled paper. Sakura unfolded it. She studied the sheet and then held it in line with Adam’s vision.
“He even understand?” A nod at Adam.
“Of course.”
Sakura refolded the sheet with a picture of herself and Adam, a print-off of a scanned photo, one he knew Sakura kept in her drawer at home. She had never told him about it, but he had stumbled onto it while searching for a sex toy he had brought over for her previously. At the time, the picture confirmed his suspicions of her feelings for him, and he had never told her about seeing it. Whoever entered her house must have known how to disarm the alarm. He knew for a fact her dad had the code.
“So how did this woman contact you? In person?”
“No.”
“Phone? Email?”
The man rubbed the back of his head, hesitant. “A friend of mine did some work for her about five years ago. I guess she still had his number. He said she suddenly called and wanted to hire a couple of guys for a job. We were it.”
“F-five years ago?” Sakura sagged into Adam’s side, and he easily supported her weight. “A woman. What was her name? Give me something!”
He shook his head. “I swear, man. I don’t know nothing else.”
“Your friend, then.”
The head kept swinging side to side. “No way. I can’t roll over on him. You’re going to have to kill me.”
Sakura blinked at him. “Are you sure about that?”
He shut his eyes, bracing himself. “Yeah.”
“One last question,” Sakura whispered. “What kind of job did your friend do or hired someone else to do for this woman five years ago?”
“Dumped a body. Muerto.”
“Dead,” Sakura repeated. “A woman’s body?”
“No, a man.”
Adam flattened his prey and took his life in one bite.
* * * *
“I could have beaten more out of him,” Sakura said as she drove.
“I was hungry,” Adam said.
She screwed up her pretty nose at him in the rearview mirror. He scooted down a little lower on the seat as not to alarm anyone who might happen to glance over and spot a naked man riding around in public. “You didn’t eat him, Adam.”
“I meant I’d only eaten a couple buns. The bear wanted to kill something. I couldn’t stop him.”
