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absorbed a
hit. Eliza had been stabbed. Repeatedly.
    “Jason?” He didn’t really have to ask. He knew.
    “Yes.” She touched the scar that ran along her hairline. “It
was the same time he did this.”
    “Why wasn’t he arrested?” The fact he was still out there
was making Rabb crazy.
    “It was his word against mine. No one saw anything.” Eliza
shrugged. “He had an alibi for the time I was attacked. He was at a party a few
blocks away.”
    “Easy enough to slip out and then back in without anyone
noticing he was missing.”
    “Exactly.” She nodded. “Unfortunately, Jason had been
telling his friends for months about this woman who was harassing him and
making his life miserable. They were only too willing to vouch for him.” Eliza
scrubbed her hand over her face. She looked tired. “I was lucky the cops didn’t
charge me. They figured I was mugged and my ‘delusion’”—she used air quotes
around the word—“coupled with my concussion was making me confused. Jason was
gracious and concerned.”
    “Fucker,” Rabb muttered. He waited for her to continue and
realized she was going to leave it at that if he let her. “Finish it.”
    Eliza sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. “Not much
else to tell. He nicked a lung, cut me in a couple other spots and I was in the
hospital for a week.”
    God almighty. She’d been battered and hurt and alone. “You
should have called me.” He knew he was being totally irrational, but he
couldn’t help himself.
    She ignored him and continued. “Detective Zurkowski, the cop
who believed me, told me to dump my phone in case Jason was using it to track
me. After that, I was on my own.”
    Something settled deep inside Rabb as he stared into Eliza’s
green eyes. “Well, you’re not alone anymore.”
    “Rabb,” she began, but he cut her off.
    “No, Eliza.” He covered the scars on her stomach with his
large hands, wishing he could make them just disappear. “You’re not going to
run off on your own. Promise me.”
    Her gaze skittered away, and he knew she’d been planning to
do just that.
    “Promise me,” he repeated. He clamped his hands over her
slender shoulders, careful not to hurt her.
    “I can’t. Rabb, you have a family to protect.”
    “Then why did you come here?” She flinched from the harsh
tone in his voice and tugged the edges of the robe around her, hiding the scars
and her body from his view. He wanted to swear again but managed to hold his
tongue.
    “It was a mistake. A moment of weakness.”
    Fury welled up inside Rabb. A mistake. She saw coming here
as a mistake. “Well, if it’s a mistake, you might as well go all the way with
it.” He swept her off the stool and carried her out of the kitchen and down the
short hallway to his bedroom.
    “Rabb? What are you doing? Put me down.”
    “No.”
    Her fingers dug into his shoulders. “What do you mean no ?”
    “Just that.” He deposited her beside his bed. He gripped the
edges of the robe in his hands but didn’t open it. “If you’re going to run away
tomorrow, I want tonight.”
    Rabb looked so angry and hurt in the dim light pouring in
from the hallway. That combined with the ambient street light coming in through
the window made it easy for her to see him. It hadn’t been her intention to
hurt him, but she’d done it anyway.
    Her body was still pulsing from his earlier touch. He’d had
his hands on her breasts and her stomach. Her nipples tingled and she knew her
pussy was damp. All Rabb had to do was look at her and she creamed herself. Her
blood felt thick, as though it were flowing slowly in her veins.
    Time slowed to a halt.
    Rabb was waiting. For a sign from her.
    He wasn’t the least bit like Jason. This was Rabb, the man
she trusted more than she ever had anyone else. Yes, he’d hurt her, but she
couldn’t put the entire blame on him. Jason was the main source of the problem,
but she’d been just as much at fault. She’d kept everything to herself,