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entire time. He rescued me and nursed me back to health. Why would he do that if he was only interested in killing women?”
    Sitting back, I crossed one leg over the other at the knee and steepled my fingers to my chin. “Have you heard of the Cascades Killer?”
    “Yes,” she admitted softly. “I saw something about it on the news.
    “Then you know that a man has been abducting women, carving them up and leaving them out like trash on the side of roads or abandoning their bodies in fields to be picked apart by animals.”
    “Jude wouldn’t do that.”
    “How can you be so sure?”
    She steeled her expression, her eyes burning angrily into mine. “Because he’s been here the entire time fucking me. When would he have time for those other women.”
    It was time I broke her confidence. Emily was right about one thing. Veronica was not the brightest bulb in the pack.
    “I know you’re lying, Veronica.”
    She glared at me and I held my hands up in feigned surrender.
    “I understand your desire to protect him. I’m sure you love him and that he loves you, but we already know he hasn’t been here the entire time that these murders have been committed. He’s gone to work. He’s gone out to restaurants. I’ve seen him personally out and about.”
    It hadn’t been until we’d walked into the house to serve the warrant that I’d recognized him from the night Emily and I had eaten at the dive restaurant where Veronica had previously worked. As soon as I spotted the asshole, I’d realized my instincts had been well honed that night. We could have solved this case weeks before if I’d just ignored Emily and followed the son of a bitch home.
    “He didn’t do what you are accusing him of doing. He goes to work. Who doesn’t?” There was the hint of rebellion in her voice, but when I narrowed my gaze on her, she shrunk into herself, hugging her arms around her abdomen even tighter.
    My cock twitched again to see the submissive slut inside her shine through. Perhaps this is the reason Jude chose to keep her alive.
    What I did next was wrong. It went against every damn protocol in the Bureau and for that reason alone, it excited me even more. I was tired of the façade…tired of being a good guy in a world where the bad guys had all the fun. If this investigation had taught me anything, it was the fact that I needed control. I craved it like a desert traveller craves water. The need was born deep in my body and it set every nerve ending I had on high alert.
    And this girl was exactly what my body was craving.
    “Would you like to help your boyfriend, Veronica?” I asked the question lazily, pretending like her answer held no more importance to me than a stranger’s choice in bread type for their sandwich.
    She startled again, her body flinching with the discomfort of knowing that a predator lurked in her vicinity. Having been with Jude, she must have been aware of something being off with a man like me. She’d not only experienced it before, but fell in love with it.
    “Yes.” She finally answered the question on a whisper.
    “Do you know what you can do to help him?”
    Her eyes locked to mine as she stood up from her chair. “Are you like him?” She asked.
    I nodded my head; not feeling the need to put into words something that we both knew already.
    Her body was covered by nothing more than a thin t-shirt and black yoga pants. Moving around the edge of the table, she leaned against it, finally lifting her body enough so that she could sit on the edge next to me.
    “Spread your legs, beautiful.”
    I sat back in my chair and watched, my cock coming to life with the brilliance of her submission. Her arms moved as her hands gripped the bottom of her shirt. Within seconds, she pulled the cloth from her body and tossed it to the floor.
    Looking at me with soft eyes, she asked, “If I do this, will you let him go?”
    “Yes,” I lied. In truth, there was nothing I could do for the man if the State or the