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realized what she’d said and felt fire shoot up into her cheeks.
    Her wolf was out of control.
    She heard a deep, amused chuckle from Carter and had to grin. Sure, maybe things were awkward between them. But she had to admit a little part of her was kind of enjoying it.
    It felt like she was bringing him out of his shell. And heaven knew she wanted to get out of hers.
    Perhaps, when he came later that night to talk to her about his conspiracy theories that someone was after her, she could ask him frankly about her parents’ case.
    She watched him studying case files and leaned her cheek in her hand.
    Maybe she’d finally found someone she could trust.
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    A t the end of the day, Carter sat in front of the chief’s desk impatiently, checking the clock on the wall and wondering when he’d be excused to go check on Amy.
    He didn’t like the idea of her going home alone. Not with how he’d felt when he’d been there last night.
    Of course, he wasn’t exactly comfortable at the thought of another night spent under the same roof as her. She was gorgeous, and the last thing he needed was to start thinking of her as a woman instead of seeing her only as a cop.
    He had a feeling he was fighting a losing battle on that front, though.
    “Sir?” he said, chiming in. “I need to wrap this up. I’ve been working late and—”
    “Well, I was just saying you should stick close to your partner for now, until we have more info,” the chief said, running his hands through his graying hair. Soren Winters wasn’t a bad man. He was tired, a full-blooded wolf shifter, but Carter had never seen him do anything unethical. If anything, he was a little scatterbrained but always tried to keep things in control.
    Carter didn’t know why they had to talk about this again when he’d already told the chief he was sticking close to Amy just that morning, but sometimes the chief was just longwinded.
    “All right, sir,” Carter said, standing. “Good plan.”
    The chief stood with him, and he had to look slightly up at Carter, who was taller.
    Sometimes Carter wondered if the chief suspected he was some kind of shifter, but no one could ever prove it.
    “All right, dismissed,” the chief said.
    Carter strode out of the office and checked his phone. An hour after everyone else would have left. He looked over at Amy’s desk and saw it was vacant. Of course she’d headed home first.
    She seemed eager to avoid him after what had happened last night.
    When she’d said she wanted to see him naked and then kissed him. For some reason, that was really hard to get out of this head.
    He was cleaning up his desk and locking his drawers when his phone buzzed with a text. He absentmindedly flicked it open and glanced down at the screen.
    Help. Need backup. Cedar and Ninth. Amy.
    Damn, that was just a couple blocks from the precinct. Near a parking garage Amy liked to use.
    Carter snapped his phone shut and took off at a dead run, heart pounding in his chest as he went to the elevator and slammed his hand on the button.
    When it didn’t come immediately, he bolted for the stairs, not minding there were three stories of them to get all the way down.
    Nothing mattered as long as he got to her in time.
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    A my stayed hidden behind one of the large concrete columns on the lower level of the parking garage where someone was casing her car.
    She’d been lucky that her wolf had scented someone long before she would have thought to see him.
    She’d been tired after a long day of work and fighting off Trent and trying not to think about Carter naked.
    Like she needed to make things any more awkward between them.
    She pulled her phone out of her pocket and checked to see if Carter had answered, but he hadn’t. Still, she knew he’d seen her text. Carter might have an old-ass phone, but he always had it on him and always answered it.
    She just had to bide her time until he arrived.
    She wondered if she could open the phone and give more detail on