Dead Reaper Walking by Mina Carter

Author:Mina Carter [Carter, Mina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal / Urban Fantasy Romance
Publisher: Blue Hedgehog Press
Published: 2014-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Troy couldn’t believe he and Laney had gone at it in the toilet stall, of all places. But it had been worth it. His legs didn’t work properly as he made his way back into the café.

“Andrews decided to go with a sandwich at his desk then?” he asked when he didn’t see the big sergeant anywhere, and slumped into his seat. John looked up, his eyes narrowing. Troy had tried to return his appearance to normal after the wild ride, but John…he had more years on the job than Troy, and an eye for detail an anally-retentive OCD sufferer would envy. There was no way he hadn’t figured out what they’d been up to.

“If you didn’t find another Werewolf in the toilets, then really I don’t want to know.”

His dry tone made Troy smile. He didn’t care if John knew what they’d been up to, he felt too damn good. As fast and furious as their interlude had been, he’d felt something else buried beneath the heat. A connection he’d never felt with anyone. A soul deep link that scared and fascinated him. If that wasn’t enough to rock a guy’s world, the tenderness at the end of what should have been a fast and dirty fuck had blown him away.

“Believe me then, you really don’t want to know.” He took a sip from his coffee, then grimaced. Cold. He couldn’t stand cold coffee. Worst thing on Earth. After demons and celery. He hated celery with a passion.

John’s cell rang as Laney emerged from the hall. Like Troy, she had tidied herself up, but on her… fuck, she looked well-loved and sexy. So much so, he wanted to march her right back into the restroom for round two.

“Yeah… got it.” John clicked the cell off and stood at the same moment Laney reached the table. “C’mon, we got a call. Kidnapping. Sulfur found at the scene, so it looks like a para case.”

As one, he and John glanced at Laney. Her eyes slid off focus for a second before she shook her head. He let go a sigh of relief. A nod meant lifelines were active and she had to go reap. Lifelines…yeah, right. Death-lines more like.

“No reap. Just lots of lines one bad decision away from it.”

Troy arched an eyebrow as they walked toward the door. “One bad decision?”

She paused, a hand on the door frame, to look over her shoulder.

“Well, that’s kinda the default state for humanity. At any moment you guys can decide to do something dumb. One wrong step, one wrong turn and you get hit by a bus.” She smacked her open palms together. “Boom!”

“So, they’re like…all milling about in your head?” It sounded like him on the internet, with so many browser windows open that he didn’t know which way was up. “How do you stop it from driving you insane?”

She stopped. Winked. “Who said I was sane?”

He squinted in the sudden sunlight as they walked out of the bar and turned left toward the car.

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