Her Black Tiger by Marissa Dobson

Author:Marissa Dobson [Dobson, Marissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939978875
Publisher: Dobson Ink
Published: 2016-07-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Surrounded by the darkness, Brooklynn stretched out on the in bed with her heart slamming against her chest. She strained to hear any movement in the house. Carran’s words had her at ease but now she was apprehensive. Even if he was able to fix the trouble she seemed to be in with the local wolf pack, she wasn’t sure she could stay in the city. Once he left, there was no certainty that the wolves would stick to the agreement, and how could she trust the people she had to work with daily? A cop who couldn’t trust that their partner had their back was useless.

“Dad, I wanted to follow in your footsteps.” She fingered the Saint Michael pendant on her necklace. It had been her father’s and now she wore it. Her finger rubbed across the jagged edge, a wound left on the pendant from where the first bullet tore through him. Four bullets had stolen her father from her.

At eleven, she worked hard all summer doing odd jobs around the neighborhood to earn enough money to buy her father that pendant. It was in honor of his fifteenth year on the force. He never saw his sixteenth. The day of the funeral, her father’s partner took her aside and gave her the pendant. It was cleaned, leaving no traces of the blood that had spilled on it, but nothing could hide the ragged edges left by the bullet. She slipped it around her neck and with that she was given part of her father back.

From that day on, she wore the necklace. Her mother tried to forbid it, and her sister Abagail found the idea of wearing the necklace morbid, but Brooklynn never let that stop her. A criminal had taken her father, but she’d hold on to this last piece of him with her dying breath. She had always been a daddy’s girl and Abagail was just like her mother. They were different as night and day.

“Brooklynn?” Carran’s soft voice called to her from the doorway. “Are you still awake?”

“Everything okay?” She scooted up in bed and focused on the doorway.

“I wanted to talk to you for a moment.” He came farther into the room.

“First, I have a question.” She shifted and turned on the bedside lamp. “Earlier, how did you know where I was?”

“This.” He grabbed her jacket from the top of the dresser and reached into her pocket to pull out a small black square. “It’s a tracker.”

“What?” She stared at it, wide eyed and full of disbelieve. “You’ve got to be kidding. You tagged me!”

“It’s a long story, one I don’t have time to tell you now, but yes.” He tossed the jacket on the foot of the bed and came around to stand next to her. “I slipped it into your pocket at Reaper’s. You were in danger and I wanted to ensure you were safe.”

“That’s illegal.”

“When I get back, you can arrest me if you’d like.” He took her hand into his and sat down beside her.

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