Chapter 28
Women. As if he hadn't had enough problems just being a vampire trying like hell to keep the predators at bay. No, he had to go and bring back into his quiet and peaceful life the most dangerous creatures in the world.
First the whole thing with Morgan. He slapped his head, remembering the look on her face as he demanded she confess she was Coraline. But there was no brand. He had been wrong from the start about her.
And now Beth was going all nuts on him. Just what he was afraid of from the first. The past really was catching up to him with a vengeance. And he, like the idiot he was, had gone and told Beth the whole story, confirming his part. Now who was the stalker -- and a jealous one at that?
He'd only agreed to Beth's little plan of entrapment because he had intended to try to see Morgan again anyway. He needed to apologize plus he was intrigued at how she could look so much like Coraline. Maybe he could get more information if they worked together.
She'd surprised him at the restaurant. He still couldn't get over her eating and that wine she ordered seemed familiar somehow. Morgan even asked about Coraline. As if he could describe their whole dysfunctional relationship in a few words. He'd said the word "complicated" which was certainly true and was as good as any. Fortunately she'd dropped the questioning and then seemed to really get into the spirit of the stakeout on the cheating trophy wife. Even called it "sordid". Yeah. Good thing he was naturally cynical and needed the case to learn more about Morgan, or else Mr. "I own her" would have been out the door on his ass.
Nothing about this case was going right! Beth was driving him crazy almost getting caught at Morgan's place; the wife and her lover were plotting murder; he got shot in the head and worst of all, he found himself distracted by Morgan's nearness. The same sexual chemistry he'd had with Coraline was pulling at him. Although it felt different now, not so all consuming.
Then he saved Morgan by making that leap and brought her back to his place. To his shower, where ... he knew. She was Coraline. Hope started rising within him. She'd somehow found a way to become human! How? Tell me!
Then Beth had stormed in like an avenging angel and had taken his one chance at being human again away.
