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As soon as she’d seen the cop car, she’d bolted inside and locked the door.
At the time, it’d made me suspicious, but now it was all making a sick sort of sense.
Reluctantly, I backed away until I was standing beside my boss.
“What happened to her?” I asked, helplessness prominent in my voice.
She rocked back and forth, but when the distance between me and her widened, her keening had dropped to small pitiful moans.
“From what I’ve gathered from my wife, she was the victim of a rapist who posed as a cop. Been that way ever since,” he said grimly.
My eyes closed in pain. “And she lived on the block with that fucking douchebag all this time?”
Cabe’sface swiveled towards me, and his jaw was clenched tight. “Yes. Why do you think I gave you that house in the first place?”
“I thought it was to get me in the same neighborhood as Varian?” I asked in surprise.
He smiled grimly. “Two birds. One stone. My wife also made me promise I’d put my best man on her. That was the only way she wasn’t telling her.”
I shook my head. “How could you not tell me this? How’d your wife find out?” I asked.
“I left my report on the kitchen table. Hell, I didn’t even know Channing was in that neighborhood until my wife started freaking out that a suspected rapist was living down the street from her best friend. I didn’t tell you for the same reason you didn’t run any backgrounds on her. You didn’t want to know, remember?” He asked with a raised brow.
I threw my hands in the air. “Yes, but I’ve gotten...close to her in the last four months. Had I known...”
Cabe interrupted me. “Had you known, you wouldn’t have done a thing different and you know it. You’re serving the warrant in a few hours, aren’t you?”
I nodded. “Yes, after he gets off from work I’ll be on the team to serve the warrant.”
“Cabe? Loki?” A soft, hesitant voice said from in front of us, pulling our eyes from one another to the woman, Channing, still huddled in on herself in the corner.
Her eyes looked wild as she took in the crew behind us collecting evidence, as well as the five cops gathered at the door to the room waiting for the okay to come in from the evidence techs.
“You okay, darlin’?” Cabe asked her.
For some odd reason, the question set my teeth to grinding. Rage started to swell in my chest at the Chief’s evident closeness to her. However, I tamped it down, knowing it had no place right now.
No one would benefit from my attitude right now, and I knew that. So I tamped it down, viciously stopping my snarl of outrage that was about to pour out of my throat.
Her eyes looked warily at me, then my badge; I knew when I wasn’t wanted.
Giving her a curt nod, I left, even though every cell in my body was telling me not to.
Chapter 5
I guarantee I will fill your life with copious amounts of sexual frustration.
-Life lesson
Channing
“What’s that sound?” My brother asked from his usual seat in the recliner.
I’d thought it was just the game he was playing that was making all that noise, but then he asked what the sound was, which made me get up and investigate.
Walking to the front window, I took a pull of my beer before flicking the blinds open with two fingers. What I found was our entire street engulfed in police officers, sheriffs, and even an ambulance and fire truck, about five houses back.
Surprisingly, all of it was centered on Varian Strong’s house, two houses down and across the street from my own.
