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attention seemingly cutting to him as he approached. But all too soon its intention became clear. Zeke’s heart iced over as the rogue geist grabbed up a moped and swiveled with its hideous, no-longer-human strength and took aim.
    Right at Kendall.

Chapter Four
    Note to self—keep all amorphous smoke clouds out of casual conversation .
    Irritated by both the vendor’s reaction and her careless flub, Kendall crossed the empty street to the parking lot, zeroing in on a small security trailer. It was amazing how the mention of one measly little cloud was enough to make some people look at her like she was a few clowns short of a circus.
    Like the way Zeke Reece had looked at her.
    Another curse hissed out of her. Having Zeke haunt her thoughts was driving her as crazy as he thought she was. She was an idiot to let him linger in her mind’s eye, with his gentle hands and a sculpted body that fulfilled her every secret fantasy. The fact was there was no hope of striking up a relationship with him at this point. The way things stood now, he either didn’t know anything about what was going on and believed she was a hot box full of crazy, or he was just twisted enough to enjoy making her think she had snapped under pressure.
    One was sad, but understandable. The other was unforgivable.
    She’d do a better job of questioning the security guard, she decided, pleased to see lights through the trailer’s uncovered windows. And this time she’d do her best to keep The Twilight Zone stuff down to a minimum as she asked about The Guardian—
    Strong arms engulfed her in a viselike grip, and in a blink she was off her feet and moving so fast the world around her blurred. There was no time to scream even as she came to a screeching halt, the breath knocking out of her as she was pushed against the side of a building on the opposite end of the parking area. Her brain scrambled in a frenzy of alarmed confusion as the press of a hulking, hard body pinned her in place. Panicked, she sucked in a breath to scream, but it came out as a mere squeak as a sudden crash of metal against metal tore through the darkness.
    “What the hell —” She caught an improbable glimpse of some sort of scooter embedded into the front of the security hut she’d been heading for, before she was hauled unceremoniously into the engulfing shadows of a narrow alley at the back of the building. A babble of excited shouts pierced the night as security officers spilled out of the damaged hut, but before she could call out to them, a hand clamped over her mouth.
    “That moped almost took you out, and you don’t even know it,” the man who held her growled, shocking her into stillness. “What is it going to take for you to realize you’re digging into something that’s bad for your health?”
    Kendall stared up at The Guardian Angel, so dumbfounded she didn’t even notice when he removed his hand from her mouth.
    “ You ,” she breathed. She struggled to get a clear view of him, but it was a hopeless task. Even if a mask hadn’t covered half his face, the darkness around him seemed deeper, like an impenetrable black hole where no light could exist. “Where... How...”
    “Quiet.” The tension in his voice was palpable. She could even feel it in the body that pinned her to the alley wall, thrumming with a kill-or-be-killed urgency that made her own pulse pound. “It took off once it diverted me. I can’t believe how smart it is.”
    “What’s smart?” Shadows filled the places where his eyes should be, leaving dark pools of endless mystery. Belatedly she realized their bodies touched in one long line from chest to knees, and it was all she could do to pull a coherent thought together. “What took off? Why did you attack me?”
    A low growl emanated from him. “I didn’t attack you, I saved your life. Again. You’re welcome, by the way.”
    “You saved me? From what, that out-of-control scooter? I’ll admit, I never heard it