03 - You Only Live Nine Times by E A Price

Author:E A Price
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-07-12T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Shep gave them a hostile glare, beetling his bushy eyebrows.

“More missing bodies, Shep?” purred Isis, in a deceptively laconic way. Her eyes were hooded, and her lustrous lips curled into a smirk, but he could see the sharpness in her eyes. She was watching him as closely as a… well, as a tigress would watch her prey.

The patrol cops, not the brightest sparks, had tried questioning Shep already about the break in, but Shep had taken offence at their questions, apparently believing that they were accusing him of being in cahoots with the grave robbers. The patrol cops denied it, but Raf wouldn’t put it past them. Now they were trying to get him to open up. While other investigators might have tried coaxing him, even flattering his ego, Isis had decided to annoy the truth out of him. When it came to opening a door, she was more of a battering ram than a key. A skilled battering ram, he had to admit. And damn if it wasn’t fun to watch her work. He was used to dealing with cops – ornery, arrogant cops – and had plenty of practice at being the reasonable, amenable good cop, while pretending that their dumb behavior didn’t piss the hell out of him. But with Isis it was different. He could watch her be deliriously wicked all night long with a stupid grin on his face. Course, very little of his blood was still in his head whenever she was around, and he lost all reason whenever she arched a perfectly sculpted eyebrow in derision.

“A missing body,” he corrected, eliciting a snort from Isis. “And it’s not my fault!” His bulbous nose twitched violently.

“More intruders? You seem to be getting nightly visits.”

Shep’s eyes flashed with anger, and Raf wondered if he was going to shift into his animal. It wouldn’t exactly help him. No mole could be anywhere near as terrifying as a female tiger. “I’m a groundskeeper, not a fucking security guard!” He fixed Raf with black eyes. “Where the fuck were the cops while all these people were breaking into my cemetery? Lazy fuckwits! And besides, that vampire never causes any damage.”

“Vampire?” spat Isis, her own eyes blazed yellow, whether, in interest or fury, Raf couldn’t tell, but he suspected both.

The mole scowled and stopped talking. Isis, now that she had wrested something useful rounded on Shep. Technically, she didn’t change physically. But she stood up a little straighter, her shoulders squared, and a deep growl escaped her lips. With barely any movement, she seemed so much bigger, so much more dangerous, and so much more dominant than the snarky female who had been tormenting Shep a few moments ago.

Raf was amazed to see the quarrelsome mole shifter shrink and almost whimper while refusing to meet her eyes. What was wrong with the guy? Could he not see how hot she was like this?

Shep flinched as she spoke, even though her voice came out as more of a caress than anything else.

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