Part VII:

About 15 minutes later

Faith sat on the toilet lit after the paramedics had bandaged her arm. Fortunately it was just a small wound, the cut wasn't very deep. It bleed much and hurt like hell but nothing serious to worry about.

She could hear Bosco talking to Miller, in the main room. His voice got louder with every word he said, still she couldn't make out all he was saying. She did hear only a few sentences.

"Where the hell were you? She could have died, we could have died! ..."

"You never said that we would be the bait and the little fact that this guy cuts the wives heart out must have slipped your mind, too"

"Were was the surveillance you promised? If I hadn't be armed we could both be dead by the time you even realised that something was going on...."

She didn't hear anything after that, she still was a little shocked from waking up to see a man with a knife over her who tried to kill herself and Bosco.

She looked up startled as she heard Boscos voice behind her.

"How are you feeling?", he asked worried.

"It just hurts, nothing to worry about and the painkillers should take care of that in a few minutes"

"Miller said he counted on the perp to try to attack you. The profile the had made stated you're exactly his type. And about having someone watching us at any time ... They decided to stay back to not rouse any suspicions. Didn't think the guy would get past them unnoticed!"

"But why?"

"Why, what?"

"Why did he kill all this women by cutting the heart out?"

"Martin Roberts age 36, was married until about a year ago. Apparently his wife met someone and was cheating on him the whole time. After finding out he discovered that she had an affair with a married man. They think what ticked him finally off was that all the female victims rejected his advances. They thinks that he wanted to punish the woman for rejecting him like his wife did. And the man would be punished for being unfaithful to woman in general and their wives. The real reason we were chosen for the case was, that I have a reputation to be a ladies killer. Guess they thought I would attract him even more by flirting with other woman, which I didn't, by the way. And you look a lot like his wife, hair colour, eye colour, height....."

"But I don't know him? Why me?", she asked confused and moved to the door to get a good look at their killer. In all the tumult she didn't really saw the man until now.

"Oh my good!", she exclaimed. "That's the guy from the pool! And I think he was one of the guys who made a pass at me while we were down on the pool the first time, too!"

Her knees buckled suddenly, as she realised what danger she really was in. Roberts could have easily killed or raped her while she was down alone by the pool.

The moment Bosco saw her staggering he took her in his arms to hold her upright.

"Shh, it's all right! He can't hurt you anymore. I would never let anything happen to you!", he murmured, while stroking her hair gently.

Staying a moment longer in his embrace she looked up.

"I know, Boz!", she smiled lightly before laying her head back on his chest.

She never wanted to leave his arm, but she knew they had to talk about last night. Her feelings for him hadn't changed, she still loved him. But she wasn't sure that he felt the same for her. Sure, he said it but she knew Bosco would say anything to get a girl to have sex with him. She just wasn't sure he wasn't playing. After all she was not a supermodel, but a divorced mother of two! And last night definitely wasn't like her. Jumping into bed with him without thinking.

She didn't want to end being hurt be him, but she needed to know what last night meant to Bosco.

Bosco had known that this would come eventually. He feared that Faith regretted what happened between them. He would do anything for her, if she wanted to stay that would it be. But that didn't mean that he wouldn't try all he could do convince her to give their relationship a try. He just wanted her to be happy.

"I know, Faith! I know!"

tbc.....

Thank you for all the review! I planned on ending the stories soon, but I have a few ideas for a sequel.... So I guess there will be more to read, but I don't want to tell you too much, yet :-D