Chapter 14

Morgan was livid. Beth and Mick had already met and he had saved her from that little twit of a serial killer, what's his name, the Professor's T.A.?

Her informant had noted that the girl was almost murdered but that Mick swooped in, took a knife blade to the abdomen (as if that could stop him!) and carried her away. And not just to a hospital. No, he took her to his place.

So Mick was back in the human girl rescue business, huh? Well, she just happened to be human, too. Maybe this could work for her! Let's see. An attack of some kind, oh, yes, how perfect, a scuffle that caused her injury!

And she knew just which injury. He wouldn't even know that she was showing him the spot where she never healed! As long as that cut never closed up, the cure was working. But she could pretend it was a fresh injury. Oh, yes.

A couple more weeks of preparation. She was having a field day putting together all the subtle little clues for him.

The Proust book on her bedside. Check. Her favorite wine. Would he remember that? And her apartment. She had sent back from storage her old 50's furnishings and LP records. She smiled. She'll have to make some comment about that to him about being into a nostalgia theme.

God, his head will be spinning when he sees her and she denies knowing him. She'll have to practice keeping a straight face. He'll try to test her, in fact, knowing him as she does, he'll be like a bulldog. Never giving up trying to get her to slip up and admit her real identity. But she'll never tell!

And what fun it will be seducing him all over again. He'll be begging for mercy. Begging her to tell him how she became human. And she just might tell him -- or show him -- when he's sufficiently paid for his crime. Yes, he was going to have to make it up to her, again and again. And then when he, too, becomes human again, we'll try these things they call love and family.

Rubbing her hands together, she says "I'm coming back for you, Mick!"