Death Calls by Caridad Pineiro

Author:Caridad Pineiro [Pineiro, Caridad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B000MAH95W
Publisher: Harlequin Nocturne
Published: 2006-12-02T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

D iana couldn’t say no. It was part of her job to get whatever information she could for her team. Even if that meant meeting Alex in the safe house—a place that wasn’t necessarily so safe for her.

She couldn’t explain why she felt the way she did. It wasn’t a secret tryst or anything. So why had Alex stayed on her mind in a much too personal way since the other night?

Maybe because it had felt so normal, the voice of reason interjected.

It had felt right, she reluctantly admitted. Right in a way she could never have with Ryder. Another reason why she needed to forget Ryder and to get on with her life—a life not filled with the undead.

Being with Alex—it had almost been like before her father’s death and darkness had gripped her life, before she had left Alex and let her world spiral out of control.

A part of her reasoned that if Alex truly cared, she wouldn’t have been able to push him away quite so easily. But as memories filled her of just how many times he had tried to break past the walls she had erected, it occurred to her that it hadn’t been easy for him. He had battled hard for her, but lost.

She had expected it might be difficult to see him again after so many years. And yet once they’d gotten past that initial discomfort, it had been relatively painless to slip into the patterns of old. Maybe too painless. But it also felt different in a way that piqued her curiosity. Different because Alex was definitely not the same man he had been nearly a decade ago.

In the past few days she had spent too much time thinking about him during those very rare moments when she wasn’t concentrating on a case that was going nowhere. For every move they made, the CDA seemed to be one move ahead. Moreno hadn’t cracked. De la Fuente wasn’t talking. Martinez hadn’t broken a sweat when she’d visited him.

Luckily, Alex thought he had a lead and so here she was, waiting for him to arrive. Her stomach grumbled and she hoped Alex would think to bring dinner. He always seemed to know just how to satisfy…

She stopped herself right there. Instead, she set the table in anticipation of a meal. If Alex hadn’t thought to bring food…

He opened the door and stepped inside, a bag in his hand from another of the Cuban restaurants along Bergenline.

She smiled. “You read my mind.”

A dark, dangerous look crept onto his face. When he spoke, the tones of his voice were bedroom-low. “Can you read mine?”

Dios mio, but he couldn’t possibly be thinking that, she worried and bit her lower lip. Heat flared within her at the recollection of what that look used to mean.

A moment later, however, he grinned, his teeth white against his tanned skin, his green eyes sparkling with merriment.

“Gotcha. Actually, I was thinking of how cute it is to see you being all

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