Half Truths (A Helheim Wolf Pack Tale) by Dawes Lauren

Author:Dawes, Lauren [Dawes, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Vaile had been acting so strangely. Larissa wasn’t sure she should follow him so blindly, but there was a voice at the back of her head telling her to; telling her just to trust him, that he wouldn’t lead her astray.

‘Vaile, where are you going?’ she demanded to his huge back. His arm held up the black velvet curtain, crushing the fabric in his fist. A very fine shudder ran through his body before he turned.

‘I’m going to the morgue again.’

She swallowed thickly, hoping her voice wasn’t going to shake over the following words. ‘Well, I’m going with you then.’

‘No. You stay here.’ She thought he meant to storm off at that point, but he stayed where he was—just staring at her, probing her with his constantly shifting eyes. She put her hands on her hips.

‘I’m not hanging around here for you to get back. I’m coming with you,’ she said, more forcefully this time. ‘Besides, you would just be driving across town to come and pick me up again. My building is on the same side of the city as the morgue.’ She could see Vaile chewing the inside of his cheek.

Eventually he said, ‘Fine.’ But instead of leaving, he waited for her to walk through the curtain. Suleman was waiting on the other side; cigarette smoke licking his face as he pushed it out through his nostrils. He glanced hungrily in her direction and Larissa felt her skin crawl.

‘Suleman, nobody goes in there until the crime scene has been cleared,’ Vaile barked. Suleman’s dark eyes evaluated Larissa carefully before ratcheting back to her partner. Vaile must have noticed because he stood in front of her, his wide shoulders shielding her from Suleman’s prying eyes.

‘I asked if that was clear,’ Vaile snapped again, standing taller still by rolling his broad, muscular shoulders back.

The air seemed to thicken with testosterone.

‘Yeah, I got it. Good evening, Detective,’ he nodded at Vaile. ‘Good evening, Constable.’ Suleman reached for Larissa’s hand, pulling it to his mouth. His lips were rough against her skin like they’d been dry and chapped for a long time. She jerked her hand away at the same time as Vaile’s huge, meaty hand wound its way around Suleman’s throat.

A loud, shocked-sounding exhale escaped Suleman’s mouth as he was thrust up against the wall of his own club. ‘Police … brutality,’ he managed to say. Vaile growled, his fingers inching closer and closer together.

‘Think I give a fuck? Touch her again like that, and I’ll slap your ass with assaulting an officer. Then I’ll personally deliver the punishment.’ Vaile’s lips had curled back from his teeth, his eyes ice-blue when they should have been grey. Larissa’s body instantly reacted to him—to the power he had in his body. He was a moving mountain of a man, and she wanted to experience him, all of him.

But there were more pressing issues at that moment. Larissa glanced around the empty club to make sure no one else was still hanging around. When she looked back, Suleman’s face was turning a light shade of red.

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