Wickedly Dangerous by Deborah Blake

Author:Deborah Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

THE MOON POKED its head out from behind a cloud and leered at them as they crouched outside a window at the rear of Peter Callahan’s office. It was somewhere around two in the morning and the neighborhood was silent, all its law-abiding citizens tucked safely into their beds.

“I don’t understand why the Riders aren’t doing this,” Liam hissed in Baba’s ear.

She suppressed an involuntary shudder when his warm breath caressed her neck, and told herself it was just nerves. Except, of course, that she didn’t get nerves.

“They’re the brawn, not the brains,” she whispered back. “They wouldn’t know what to look for. And can you see Alexei tiptoeing around inside? We’d be better off sending Chudo-Yudo. Or a parade of elephants in army boots.”

She gave the sheriff a sidelong look. He’d changed into civilian clothes; dark jeans and dark long-sleeved tee shirt, which had the unfortunate effect of making him even more attractive than usual. One lock of dark-blond hair had fallen into his eyes again, and she had to resist the impulse to brush it away. Focus, Baba. Focus.

“A better question,” she added, “might be “why are you here?” I was just kidding when I suggested you take up a life of crime, you know.”

“I know,” he said shortly, examining the wires he could see lining the windowsill.

“You’re the sheriff,” she persisted. “You’re supposed to uphold the law, not break it. You should have stayed home. Or at least back at the Airstream.”

He shrugged minutely, the barest ripple of muscles along his broad back. “I know this area and the people a lot better than you do. There’s not much point in breaking in to look at information if you don’t have the knowledge to make sense of what you’re seeing.”

“But still—” It was bad enough that most of the folks she’d befriended in her short time here now thought she was some kind of evil witch. She didn’t want to destroy Liam’s career too.

Liam swiveled on his heels, turning so he could look her in the eye. For a moment, their faces were so close, she thought he might kiss her.

But instead he said, “Baba, they’re going to fire me at the end of the month anyway if I can’t find out who’s doing this. So I don’t have much to lose. Besides, finding those kids is more important than anything else. If this is the only way to accomplish that goal, then I’m in.”

Baba’s heart skipped a beat. “They what?” For a moment, a red fog obscured the building in front of them, and she wanted to find Clive Matthews and beat him into a pulp for threatening the thing Liam held most dear. She took a deep breath. “They’re fools, then.” Amber eyes met hazel ones. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

Liam raised an eyebrow, barely visible in the diffuse light from the distant streetlamps and the moon overhead. “I didn’t think you’d care.”

She bit her lip. She didn’t care. Of course she didn’t care. It had nothing to do with her.

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