Heads turned.

My coronary heart soared.

Chapter Thirty-9

Elanya

Damon walked into the center of the group of armed officers. A number of of them rivaled his top, however none of them appeared as massive as he did at that second.

“Who the fuck are you?” one of many officers snapped as he was shouldered apart.

“I,” Damon mentioned, turning an imposing stare on the speaker, “am the one you actually need.”

Anderson snapped his fingers, and half the armed males turned their weapons on Damon. I watched, silent at first. I didn’t know whether or not these males knew Damon was a dragon. In the event that they did, they’d concentrate on how little injury the weapons might do to him.

Or might they?

Concern shot by means of me. Damon was in his human type, not his dragon. May he be harmed? Was his pores and skin as susceptible as mine, in contrast to the scales, which appeared impervious to human firepower of all sizes? Simply what was he risking being there?

“Clarify your self,” Anderson mentioned, taking cost of the state of affairs as soon as extra as he appeared in entrance of Damon, calm and picked up.

Both he’s extraordinarily overconfident, or he has no thought Damon is a shifter.

My intestine mentioned it was the latter.

“I dedicated the crime,” Damon mentioned, reaching slowly right into a again pocket beneath the watchful gaze of a dozen semi-automatic rifles. “Right here. That is the ID badge of the homicide sufferer. I took it as a result of I used it to interrupt into his office a number of nights later.”

“Her DNA was discovered on the scene,” Anderson mentioned, sizing Damon up. “Why ought to I imagine you?”

Damon leaned in nearer. The chilly, murderous look on his face raised the hairs on the again of my neck.

“As a result of,” he mentioned with out emotion, “I can let you know precisely how he died. I can let you know the order of his fingers as I snapped them. The course I twisted his bones to shatter them. I can describe the sounds they made. The screams. Each phrase he babbled to me in an try and get me to cease. I can let you know the precise time he died.”

“Are you able to clarify her DNA?”

“I framed her,” he mentioned bluntly, the look of demise fading from his eyes as he glanced at me with an apologetic shrug. “She was a patsy. A reasonably one, however that’s all she was on the time. I charmed her out of her garments, stole a few of her hair, and left her to get up alone, none the wiser.”

“You moved my hairbrush,” I mentioned. “I at all times put it in its spot. You left it on the far facet of the sink. I assumed that meant you used it in your personal mane.”

Anderson was glancing backwards and forwards between us.

“Oops,” Damon mentioned with a wry smile and one other shrug. Then his options closed off as soon as once more as he stared down at Anderson. “Shall I start with an outline? Or are you going to be the good agent I can inform you’re, and let her go whilst you arrest me?”

Anderson thought it over.

“Have you learnt this man?” he requested me.

I nodded. “Each phrase he mentioned is true. Nicely, apart from whether or not he killed him and the way. I wasn’t there for that.”

“The place had been you on this model of the story?” Anderson requested, pulling off his sun shades.

“At dwelling. Alone. Being pissy I apparently wasn’t adequate in mattress or sizzling sufficient to get him to stay round for spherical two.” I shrugged. “There have been numerous tears and ice cream. It wasn’t fairly. I used to be beneath numerous stress, consistently operating provides into the occupied territories. I had a little bit of a breakdown.”

Anderson’s pale blue-gray eyes bore into me. Looking for any trace of a lie.

“Arrest him,” he mentioned after a minute, sliding the sun shades again into place.

Cuffs got here off my wrists. I shook them to rid my pores and skin of the cool contact of steel, watching whereas preventing again a smile as they tried—and failed—to get the cuffs round Damon’s wrists. Finally, they resorted to some heavy-duty zip-ties that appeared to get the job completed.

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