The Bloody Mary Diet: The Detective Adele Series Book 1 by Caroline Stuchlik Read Free Book Online Page B

hips into him while I reach up to grab his hair.  I tilt my head to the side to offer up my neck. Then Trevor steps back.
    “What the fuck?  What was that? I have never felt anything like that. Ever.”
    Trevor just smiles. I conceder picking up the soup pan and smacking him in the head with it.  But then I would go hungry.
    He must be reading my mind again because he goes back to the other side of the island to stir the soup and this time he turns the handle away from me.  Whatever.  I can turn anything into a weapon if properly motivated and that just about motivated me. To do what I can’t really say.
    Trevor finally speaks up.  “ That, as you call it was me, and how I feel about you.  And how I think you might feel about me if you gave us a chance.  I have been watching you for four years now and I have never felt the way I feel for you with any other woman. Not in centuries. I want to give “that”, as you so succinctly put it, a chance.”
    “Oh”
    “Oh?  I declare my undead love to Catherine the Great, the only woman I have ever loved and she says, “Oh?” You wound me.”
    He is smiling the whole time and I know damn well he is not in the least bit wounded but I am at a loss for words.  I always thou ght he was just perpetually a 23 year old dude and therefore perpetually horny.  It was me or Jan because we are the only two women at the office and Jan, while awesome, owns fifty cats. One for each birthday to be replaced as needed and she probably would benefit from some mental health services.  As in inpatient. Maybe even court ordered. I am kidding, about the cats, not the mental health services. She really only has about five but for a werewolf that is five more than normal.
    Jan is actually very hot but completely crazy and trust me, I know crazy.
    “I am a perpetually 23 year old man and “horny” as you so charmingly put it but that is not the issue here.  There are literally thousands of women who would be happy to help me with that.  But I don’t have feelings for them.  I love you, Cate. And I want you to give me a chance.”
    “Stop reading my mind.  It is rude. Why are you drop ping this on me all of a sudden?  We have never even been on a date.  I have never been on any dates.  It’s not that I am adverse to giving you a chance, you are incredibly good looking, as you obviously know, and smart and funny. But you scare the living shit out of me and I don’t know why would you like me anyway.  You know Gran and Auntie Charles and Molly.  There is every chance that I will end up every bit as crazy as them and probably worse.  Vampires mate for life. As in eternity. Who wants to be tied to an alcoholic mental patient for all eternity? It would not be fair.  I would never do that to you. Ever. You are too good for that. I am too kind for that.”
    Trevor continues to stare at me and stir the soup.  Did I mention that vampires are patient?  They are also very calm and they don’t have to blink. Ever.  To be stared at by a vampire is to want to climb under the kitchen island in you very s hort skirt and stay there. Trevor finally answers as I am about to climb down. Close call, almost too close.
    “That is exactly why I am telling you now.  Yesterday you used your service weapon to kill two doors.  The only reason I did not have to take you to jail was that you were sober.  You are falling apart in front of me and I can’t stand it.  They put you on the force when you were 19 because they needed to use your gift.  No one cares if you burn out and go crazy because of the things they show you. No one else even sees the big picture.  You have seen murder through the eyes of a hundred victims.  No one can handle that long term.  No one ever has.  You have lasted longer on this job then most and you are slipping fast.  You drink too much, you are not safe and you are getting worse.”
    “Is this my formal work evaluation or are you just trying to get into my