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deposit a kiss on her warm lips and see what she tasted like. His skin ached to feel her smooth body. Desire had never been so fiery ever before, and he didn’t know what to do with it. He wanted her badly to trust him, but even if she did so, her problems wouldn’t come to an end.
    She straightened her shoulders. “I’ll come.”
    He tried hard to camouflage the look of relief that crossed his face but Aric knew that she saw it. “Thank you.”
    “This could be the worst mistake that I’ve ever made, but by all accounts, I should’ve been dead in the alley. And if not, I should’ve died in the fire. You saved me, and I guess…I should trust you.” She sighed. “Did anyone die in my building?”
    “From what I saw, the fire was only in your apartment. It may have spread elsewhere but by the time, the fire truck was a few minutes away, so they may have managed to save the rest of the building.” He opened the door. “Let’s go. We can talk in the car. If you want, we can check the news to see what happened.”
    “I should call my mother and tell her that I’m okay. If she hears the news…” She halted. “Damn it. I didn’t pick up my phone when I left the room.”
    “Do you remember her number?”
    He offered her his phone. “Oh, yes.” She picked up the phone from his hand and as her fingers brushed against his, a strange current drove through his nerves. She obviously felt it too because the phone nearly slipped from her hand. Lacey didn’t quite meet his gaze as she dialed the number. Her mother didn’t pick up. “No surprise there. She isn’t an early riser.” Lacey left a message, explaining that there was a fire in her apartment, that she’d lost her phone, and she was with a friend. “If you want to get in touch…” she faltered. The elevator pinged open. He gave her his number and she left it on her mother’s machine and then ended the call. “Thank you.”
    “You’re welcome.”
    “She’s going to worry.”
    “That’s what mothers do. What about your father?”
    “I haven’t seen him for the past twenty years. He walked out when I was three years old.”
    He didn’t say anything as they strolled to his car. Aric was alert. Sure, he’d brought her to his building but he did expect some trouble. Whoever was after her might have followed him. He doubted it, but right now, after all that happened, he didn’t want to take any chances. As far as Lacey was concerned, he simply couldn’t afford to relax. No matter what happened, he intended to keep her safe.

 
     
    Chapter Five
    Aric knew he was wrong. If another member of his team had done something like this, he would’ve thrown a fit worthy of a vampire. He expected pretty much the same reaction from his team members, but he really didn’t have a choice. At the rate Lacey was going, if he didn’t keep her with him, she would get killed within a few hours. He’d invested a lot in her over the years, and there was no way he was letting her wipe out all the years of work in one day.
    No. He would keep her alive, and he was going to discover who wanted her dead. Why would anyone want her to die? What had she done to merit so much attention from a killer? But those questions would have to wait. First, he had to deal with his team and the situation that they were embroiled in. He opened the door of the warehouse and gestured for her to step aside.
    “You live here?” Lacey asked as she surveyed the place.
    “No, I work here with some friends on…a project we’re doing.”
    She lifted an eyebrow. “A project?” She took one look at his face, and sighed. “Fine… Fine… I get it. Ask no questions, hear no lies.”
    He could tell she was frustrated by the lack of information. It wasn’t fair to her; he asked her to trust him but he wasn’t willing to offer much in exchange. That was just the way it worked. There was more at stake here than she realized. “You catch on fast,” he said in a dry voice.
    Her gaze took