Born to Love (The Vampire Reborn Series) (Entangled Ignite) Read Online Free PDF Page B

up. The air cast rubbed against her skin, reminding her of her whole predicament.
    “You need to rest. You’ve had a trauma—”
    “That I can’t explain, David. That makes no goddamn sense,” she shot back irritably. “I can’t just sit back and do nothing about it.”
    He jerked back as if struck, and she realized belatedly how her critical words must have sounded. How condemning of what he’d done after he’d been injured. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean you,” she said, but knew there was no taking back the words.
    “It’s okay, Maggie. You’re right, but sitting around is all I can do now.” He held up his hands as if to say, You see? Here’s what I am .
    “David—”
    “Fuck it, Maggie. I have to get to the office, too. So get dressed and let’s go. You’ve got things to do, places to be, and my desk is waiting for me to go and sit around.”
    …
    With as many bullets as Diana had fired into the animal that had attacked Maggie, she’d hoped animal control would have located a carcass somewhere close to their crime scene.
    It hadn’t happened. Animal control had followed the trail for some distance through the park, but lost it when the beast had apparently exited onto Central Park South. Given the late hour and the isolated area, there hadn’t been any witnesses to provide a clue as to which direction the animal had gone. She would have to arrange to have any images from the webcam feeds in the area sent to her for review.
    Even more puzzling was the ME’s initial report. He had isolated at least four different blood samples at the crime scene. One had been from the victim herself, a twenty-eight-year-old investment banker who should have invested in some forethought before going for a jog late at night in Central Park.
    The second sample had been from Maggie, whose wounds had bled onto the victim and other areas of the crime scene.
    That left two other blood samples. Given the shooting of the animal, that was clearly one source.
    The last, unknown, specimen was the most troubling. The ME’s report indicated that traces of that blood were present in the bite wounds on the victim’s body, along with matching saliva. Those wounds had likely caused the victim’s death.
    Unlike what Maggie and she had hoped, the mutilation of the woman’s body had not occurred post-mortem. That would explain, in part, the large amount of blood running down the incline at the scene. It hadn’t just been gravity.
    With a grimace, Diana pinned the photos they had taken onto the murder boards. Beside them she placed the initial photos from the ME.
    A knock came at the door to the war room where she had started to assemble the murder boards in anticipation of proceeding with their investigation.
    She turned to find Maggie standing there, freckles standing out against her pale skin. She appeared slightly lost, the air cast on her arm a condemning black poking out from under the edge of her sweater.
    “I thought the doctor was sending you home this morning,” Diana said as Maggie gingerly walked in.
    Someone must have brought her a change of clothes, since she had on a simple pair of dress slacks and a long-sleeved pale blue sweater, though she still wore the bloodied hiking boots from last night instead of her usual designer heels.
    “David got me some things. I was too wired to think about going home, so I asked him to bring me here. I need to find out what’s going on.” Maggie approached the murder boards and the table where Diana had laid out all the information they had so far.
    “Are you sure you’re up to this? You still look a little out of it.”
    Maggie nodded, the curtain of her thick auburn hair shifting with the movement. She walked over to review the photos, getting close to examine them.
    “What are these?” she asked with a frown, pointing to another group of photos next to them.
    “Those are from an earlier homicide that had happened nearly a month ago,” Diana said. “Detective Daly sent