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And she’d burned him alive.
He heard the soft tap of her footsteps behind him.Without looking back at her, he asked, “Why did you agree to come here with me?”
“Because you know killers.”
His shoulders stiffened.
“You profile them all the time.That’s yourthing,right?Getting into the minds of modern-day monsters?”
“Yes.”Soft.“My thing.”
“You were wrong about my brother.”
He didn’t argue with her.Baby, don’t you wish I had proof that I was wrong?Instead of arguing, he asked, “Do you think Iwantedto lock away the person you love most in the world?”
Silence.
So he had to turn toward her.
And when he did, Oliver discovered that she wasn’t watching him.Her gaze was on the fireplace.Or, rather, on the floor in front of the fireplace.They had wound up on the floor.Eventually.First, though, he’d fucked her standing up.
Red stained her cheeks.
“Forgetting is impossible.”A grim truth.Not that Oliver wanted to forget.Sex with Lark had been incredible.It had been the partafter—the part where he broke her heart—that was the part he wished he could forget.
Her stare jumped to him.
“I see you wherever I look.”Flat.“And I never wanted to lock up Lane.I had no choice.Every bit of evidence I found pointed to his guilt.If I had tipped you off about his arrest…” Impossible.He’d had a job to do.Rules to follow.As for Lark…
“You think I would have warned him.Told him to run.”She wrapped her arms around her stomach.
Yes, that was exactly what he thought.
“You are right,” she whispered.
His brows flew up.“Excuse me?”He took a step toward her.
“I would have told him to run…”
Well, damn.
“But I should have told him to fight, not run.And that’s what I’m telling him now.Fight.Because Lane is not guilty.I know it.And the reason I came with you?It’s already almost dawn.I didn’t need shelter.”
“You need rest.”She had to be dead on her feet.“You need—”
“You,” she finished.“You’re what I need.”
And the world stopped spinning.Was this a dream?If it was, then no one had better wake his ass up.He lunged for Lark.Oliver’s hands wrapped around her shoulders as he hauled her close.
Chapter Four
His eyes were hungry.His expression savage.And his hold?Tight.Hot.He pulled her toward him.Their bodies brushed and traitorous longing pulsed through Lark, but she still managed to say, “You.I need you to prove Lane is innocent.”
Oliver blinked.He didn’t let her go.
“You know killers.I’ve read as much about you and your past cases as I could.”He was actually damn good at his job.Scarily good.But in this instance, he was wrong.“The Ice Breakers are wonderful, and I am grateful to Memphis, but I came back here with you because I think you’re starting to see—youhaveto see—that someone else is out there, hunting.The real person responsible for those terrible attacks.”She swallowed because her throat felt so dry.“He was in the car with me.I know it was him.”It must have been.“And if I have his attention, if he’s going to come after me again, then I think having an FBI agent at my side is pretty important.Because I can defend myself, yes.”She’d taken classes in college and after.But basic self-defense didn’t compare to the kind of training that she knew a federal agent had experienced.“But you can do a lot more than just defend me.You can help me catch the bastard.”
Silence.
