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We can’t afford to lose you, so think before you play the hero.” He trudged back to his desk. Crazy woman, hunting vampires all alone.
    He sipped his coffee while he studied the pictures on the screen. Speaking of vampires, who was the demon guy who had driven the gorgeous blonde to DVN? Austin scanned the photos until he located the black Lexus. He ran the license plate through the system. The vehicle was registered to Gregori Holstein, address on the Upper West Side. Date of birth was 1964, which made him a very young vampire. Of course, vampires were probably adept at falsifying documents.
    Austin wrote down Gregori’s address, then did a credit search. The guy worked at Romatech Industries, not a big surprise. A lot of vampires worked there at night. The place manufactured artificial blood, which meant Gregori might not be a biter. That was good news. She wouldn’t have to worry about him nibbling on her sweet little neck. If she was human.
    The click of heels on linoleum warned him that Emma was approaching. She stopped in front of the photo printer and began looking at his pictures.
    Maybe he’d been too hard on her. “Look, I know you have something personal against the vampires.”
    She shrugged one shoulder. “Where did you take these?”
    “Parking lot at DVN. Last night.”
    “Lots of license plates.” She set a stack of photos to the side. “I suppose all these cars belong to vampires.”
    “Most of them. Want to help me run the plates?”
    “Love to.” She picked up another bunch of photos.
    “Emma, I won’t tell Sean about Central Park, if you’ll let me know whenever you go hunting again. I’ll give you backup.”
    “That’s super. Thank you.” She gave him a brief smile, then resumed her study of his pictures. “These are very interesting.”
    “You recognize any of the cars?”
    “No. But I recognize a woman’s bum when I see one.”
    “What?”
    “You must have twenty pictures of her legs and even more of her derriere. Who is she?”
    Austin’s nerves tensed, but he kept his face blank. He reached out his hand. “Those are personal. Give them to me.”
    “Doing personal business on company time? Shame on you.” She set the pictures down and retrieved some more from the printer. “Oh, look. Boob shots. And the back of her head. Lovely hair.”
    “I said give them to me.” Austin gritted his teeth and stared at the stack of pictures Emma had set down. They zipped across the table and stopped next to his keyboard.
    Emma gasped. The photos in her hand tumbled to the table. She stepped back. “Oh, my God.”
    He wheeled his chair over to the printer and collected the photos she’d dropped.
    “You’re telekinetic,” she whispered.
    “Yeah. Big deal.” He gathered the rest of the pictures from the printer, then pushed himself back to his computer.
    “But it’s brilliant! I didn’t know you had such wicked powers. Oh no! Austin’s powers.” She chortled with laughter.
    He groaned. “Very funny.” He separated the pictures into two stacks—license plates and the girl in blue. “It’s not like I earned the ability. I was born this way.” Even his dad hadn’t been able to squelch his abilities, though you had to give the guy credit for trying.
    “How exciting.” Emma grinned. “An international man of mystery, using his special powers to fight evil.”
    “Yeah, right.” What could possibly be evil about her? After one last, lingering look at her stack of pictures, he stashed them in his desk drawer.
    Emma crossed her arms and propped a hip against the worktable. “You’re quite smitten with her, aren’t you?”
    “No.” Was he? “I don’t know who she is.”
    “The international man of mystery has a mystery woman? Super! Let’s figure it out. Where did you take her pictures?”
    “Outside DVN.”
    “Good heavens, Austin. She probably works there. That means she’s a vampire.”
    “I don’t think so. Romatech has lots of human employees. And DVN