Never Tell by Selena Montgomery

Author:Selena Montgomery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Gabriel set his bag on the single table in the room and surveyed the space. Years of hunting through these files made delegation easy. “I’ll pull the files on the murders we have. Take March,” he instructed, pointing at a wide horizontal cabinet four stacks deep. “Look for the missing murder victims. The files contain police reports, photos of evidence, and miscellaneous information. Because most of it is on computer now, they use these files as backup only.” He met her eyes for the first time. “You did good with Lindy. Thank you.” Then he walked over to his cabinet and began to read.

Erin exhaled, not ready to answer questions about what she’d revealed in the bullpen. Instead, she pulled her assigned drawer open and began thumbing through the maroon folders. Thirty minutes later, she was no closer to finding their answers. Frustrated, she asked, “Can’t we get access to their computer system? This is archaic.”

“This is as good as it gets. Sylvie’s taking a huge risk letting us come down here.”

“Why? She doesn’t believe me.”

“Not yet,” he acknowledged. “Which is why we have to work down here. The captain doesn’t buy the story, either, and she’s under orders not to be cooperative.”

“Why is she taking the chance of getting caught?” The idea of such a sacrifice seemed alien to Erin. “What changed?”

Gabriel’s sly grin, which she was fast learning to distrust, cut through the badly lit space. “You have to know how to sell a story, darling,” he drawled. “And I do.”

Erin snapped the folder shut and moved on to the next cabinet.

Swigging from the can of Coke resting atop the black steel, Gabriel studied Erin. She worked hard. In seconds, she skimmed reports and moved ahead. He might have suspected she wasn’t really reading, but for the tiny wrinkle that appeared on the smooth forehead when something struck her as odd. Then the quick, lustrous eyes would narrow in concentration.

While he watched, she propped a negligent hip on the conference table, which dominated the center of the cramped, airless room. Black pants bagged at the waist and revealed a strip of creamy skin. Angling for better light, she flipped through the pages of the police report, and the black cotton top rode higher as the waistband dipped lower. The slow striptease of inches of flesh mesmerized Gabriel like he was a randy kid. Passion flared in silver heat, so blistering, it would have shocked Erin had she turned.

When she absently yanked the shirt down, he grasped slickly at control and forced his attention to the report in his hands. Hands that were not quite steady. Desire hummed over his skin, punched his gut, scrambled his brain whenever he was within arm’s length of her.

Not since his return to New Orleans had a woman called to him, blood to blood. Whether she liked it or not, fate intended Erin Abbott to be his.

Soon, he decided, as hunger coiled tight and treacherous. It will be soon.

“Oh, no.” Erin dropped the blue-tabbed file to the table between them and buried her face in her hands.

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