All American Wolf by Adriana Hunter

Author:Adriana Hunter [Hunter, Adriana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00IBM499W
Published: 2014-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Mike was at his desk when Serena got back to the precinct. Her hands were cold; her new gloves had already gone missing. And her feet were bitterly cold, rubbing painfully against the inside of her boots. She poured coffee and sat down at her desk.

“Nowinski stopping by?” She blew on the coffee before taking an experimental sip.

“You just missed him. I told him what I could, said you were working the case. He seemed satisfied, for now.” Mike looked up at Serena. “You got anything from your…lead?”

She winced at Mike’s tone. “I was doing some research on shifters.” The irony of that statement was not lost on Serena.

“Oh? Learn anything that might help the case?”

Serena took another sip of coffee. Things Wes had said came back to her. She shrugged. “The main difference between werewolves and shifters, as it applies to our case…werewolves are compelled to kill. Shifters kill like humans kill, for the same reasons.” She felt silly, parroting Wes’s words, but there was nothing else she could think to say. It all sounded weak, evasive, and she took another sip of scalding coffee.

“So you’re thinking this wasn’t just a…crime of passion? Something uncontrollable? That Goudy was possibly targeted, stalked, and then murdered?”

Serena nodded. “Yeah, something like that. I think Goudy fit the killer’s requirements: alone, drunk, and easily subdued.”

“So you think this is guy’s a serial killer? Like any human serial killer?”

“Yeah. Decker said the victims in Wausau and Point were all male, either drunk or otherwise impaired. They could have just as easily fallen prey to any killer. But our guy apparently likes taking this one step further and changes into a wolf to do the killing.”

“You think that’s part of the reason he kills? Or he uses that to hide that he’s human?”

Serena shrugged. “I have no idea. It could be a way to try to hide his identity. Although a two hundred pound wolf-man shouldn’t be all that easy to hide.”

Mike shook his head. “This case is really turning foul. And it’s not doing you any good either.”

Serena’s head shot up. “What the hell does that mean?”

“It means I know you. This is Mary-Claire all over again. You’re not sleeping, I bet, or eating. You’re distant, secretive…and this is only day two.” Mike’s voice was gentle but his words cut through Serena like a knife. Her anger was instant and hot, words pouring out of her mouth before she could call them back.

“Look, Sparks, you don’t like how I’m handling this and you want off the case, just ask Nowinski.” She stood up, pitching her coffee into the garbage. “I got work to do. If you’re interested in the case, I suggest you do the same.”

She grabbed her jacket and left the office, banging through the stairwell door. At the first landing she stopped, sliding down to sit on the bottom step. Mike was right, but it wasn’t the case that was consuming her. Right now it was Wes Callahan.

Someone opened a door above her and Serena rose, hurrying down to the lobby.

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