Lover Wolf: Shifter Falls, Book 2 by Green Amy

Author:Green, Amy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Five Doors Creative
Published: 2016-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

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The sheriff of Grange County, Heath realized, was smart and distressingly competent. Her weakness was that she was human.

So incredibly, stubbornly human.

“Listen,” he explained again. He was sitting behind the small, messy desk in his office, while she was in the chair. “I had Scott Kraemer’s neck in my hands in that alley. Don’t you think, if I wanted him dead, I would have done it then?”

“You weren’t angry then,” she pointed out. “You were surprised, and you didn’t know what he’d done.”

Heath blinked at her. “I’d seen him grabbing her. Trust me, I was very angry.”

She actually looked down at her notebook, where she’d been taking notes during this conversation. Her hair was dark, the braid silky. The braid intrigued him. He could see that she was an attractive woman—though it was only an idle observation, since he had no desire for any woman except Tessa—but the braid was an interesting detail. Heath was a devoted, lifelong observer of women, of what they wore and what they did and what they liked, and braids were a relatively rare way for a grown woman to wear her hair. It suggested a girlish side, maybe a little of the bohemian beneath her buttoned-up exterior.

Again, intriguing. Not in a sexual way, of course. The good sheriff was giving off not the slightest scent of sexual attraction to him—she was giving off a mix of nervousness and distress he couldn’t quite put his finger on, though it wasn’t exactly fear. Besides, his thoughts kept straying to the way Tessa’s breasts had felt against his chest when he’d kissed her, the way her tongue had tasted, and he found himself increasingly impatient to get out of this interview, go somewhere private, and strip every inch of clothing off of her before doing what he’d wanted to do for months.

Sheriff Walker looked up at him again, and his view of the braid disappeared. “Look,” she said. “I’m not stupid.”

“No,” he replied. “You’re not.”

She blinked at that, because humans were never so blunt. They wasted time with words they didn’t mean. “I know it’s unlikely that you left this bar to go track down Scott Kraemer just so you could kill him.”

“Like I said,” he replied. “Tessa was unconscious. I wasn’t sure what drug he’d given her, whether she would be okay, whether she would wake up. I called the doctor and stayed by her bedside, watching her. I wasn’t about to leave her alone for hours.” Just the thought outraged him—there was no power on earth that would have moved him from Tessa’s bedside during those hours—but he tamped it down. He was supposed to be delaying the sheriff, not losing his temper at her.

“I know,” she said. “And we haven’t found a witness in the bar downstairs who saw you leaving. Though we’re mighty short on witnesses at all so far,” she added, glaring at him from beneath her dark, pretty brows. “Everyone is amazingly close-mouthed in Shifter Falls.”

“Is that so?” Heath leaned back in his chair.

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