In His Protective Custody by Ferrarella Marie

Author:Ferrarella, Marie [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781426885006
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-02-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

A lyx glanced at her rearview mirror.

The black and white squad car, with Zane behind the wheel, was still there, following her.

Was he planning to come all the way back to her apartment building? He’d dropped her off at the hospital parking structure, stopping right beside her vehicle, a hand-me-down she’d inherited from her cousins who’d all owned and driven the car at one time or another. Once she started up the car, she’d assumed that the policeman would return to the precinct.

But he didn’t.

Instead, he followed her out of the structure and turned the squad car toward her building. Alyx didn’t know what to make of it until she remembered that his partner was probably still in her building, knocking on neighbors’ doors and trying to find out if anyone had seen or heard anything that might help them bring charges against Abby’s husband.

Turning at the corner, Alyx pulled into the underground structure next to her building and parked the car in the spot that coincided with her apartment number. She noted that Zane parked the black and white in the loading and unloading zone reserved for deliveries and emergency vehicles.

When she got out of her car, he was already crossing to her.

“I guess you’re here to pick up your partner,” she speculated, searching for something to say as they got on the elevator together.

Her words sounded stilted to her ear. She definitely wasn’t at her best, but that was because she still felt numb and completely disoriented. The ordeal in the Trauma Room had felt almost surreal to her. She’d lost her grasp on her bearings and it would take a bit of work to smooth things out in her head. She kept seeing Abby’s pain-filled eyes in her mind.

“Lukkas is probably long gone by now,” Zane answered. “I doubt if he found all that many people in at this time of day and his shift ended a while back.”

Something didn’t add up. “Don’t you have the same shift?”

“Yes.” The elevator stopped on every floor, taking on passengers or dropping them off. It would have been faster to take the stairs, he thought. But one glance at her face told him that she was far too drained for such exertion.

She connected the dots, albeit in slow motion. “So that means that you’re off duty, too.”

He stepped closer to her as a woman with a fluffy dog—the only breed he knew for certain was a German shepherd and this wasn’t it—pressed to her ample chest came in. “Yes.”

He was in her space. And getting more so without moving an inch. She tried to keep her mind on the conversation and not the way her skin was heating.

“I don’t understand. If you’re not picking up your partner, what are you doing here?”

He thought it was easier to take shelter in the excuse he’d been handed. “Detective Santini told me to keep you company.” The woman and her dog got out on the next floor. Both Zane and Alyx breathed a sigh of relief.

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