World of the Lupi - 01 Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilks

Author:Eileen Wilks [Wilks, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781101090213
Publisher: Berkley Heat
Published: 2004-10-25T23:34:14+00:00

Lily stood. The wind whipped a strand of her hair across her cheek, and she turned her face into it. Clouds were piling up to the west, out to sea. Maybe they'd get some rain soon. The land could use it.

Slowly she pulled off her gloves. Normally she tidied up all the unwanted plants and grasses she'd removed. Today she glanced at the mess and didn't care. Let the wind clean it up.

She headed for her car. Her phone was there. She had a call to make. Then she had to go back to headquarters.

SIXTEEN

THEY never turned the lights off.

There were many things to hate about the metal hole they'd stuck him in, and some that weren't so bad. Rule didn't mind the lack of a bed. He couldn't stop moving, so a bunk would only have been in the way. The sanitary facilities were sparse but decent; both sink and toilet folded up into the wall. The walls themselves, though, insulated everything. Rule could barely sense the moon through all the steel, but he'd developed a tolerance for that. Humans used a lot of metal when they built cities. The silence was harder to bear—he couldn't hear a thing from outside his tiny cell.

But it was the unfaltering light that was making him crazy.

If he could have closed the darkness around him, he wouldn't have been able to see the walls. He could have fooled himself that they were farther away. Darkness wouldn't have kept him from pacing. He'd tried it for awhile with his eyes closed to see if that helped. It hadn't.

Things could have been worse. Because lupi healed so well, they made prime targets for a certain type of cop. Any damage wouldn't show for long. If someone did notice that the prisoner had a broken bone or two, it was easy to argue that he'd been unruly. It can take a lot of force to discourage an unruly lupus. And if some of the other cops suspected the truth, they didn't tell.

Rule understood that. The police were like a clan, though an ill-run one, in his opinion. So much was expected of them, yet they were denied the status their work merited. It was no wonder some of them went off track.

He'd been spared the indignity of being struck when he couldn't fight back, he reminded himself.

He would rather have been beaten.

Rule snarled at the metal wall and turned. Three steps one way, turn, three steps back. He'd been pacing since they locked him in here. Maybe in a day or two he'd tire himself out enough to sleep.

He'd used his one phone call to let Benedict know what had happened. His brother would arrange for a lawyer, and sooner or later they'd have to let that lawyer in to see him. Whether anyone else would be allowed to visit, he didn't know. He didn't know if anyone else would try.

His lip pulled back in disgust. No point in fooling himself; he wasn't worried about "anyone else" trying to see him.

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