Playing With Fire (33 page)

Nate shrugged.

“You see, Kenny, there is such a thing as justice. Even on
your turf.”

Nate pushed back in his chair, and rose to his feet,
contemplating the man who had paled dramatically.

“Erin said you told her your proudest moment would be when
you cut off my balls and hung them from the flagpole in the center of town.”

He pressed his lips together to hold back a sly grin.

“Tell you what, Kenny. I wouldn’t bend over for the soap too
often if I were you. You might find yourself missing some jewels of your own.”

Reaching for his note pad, he tore off the top sheet and
tossed it in front of Crenshaw. In Nate’s bold handwriting was scrawled:

“You’re going to hell, asshole. Courtesy of Nathan D.
Stryker.”

He turned in the doorway and gazed at the shaken man in the
chair.

“Oh, and Kenny? That’s Detective Stryker to you.”

~~~

Nate inched the Z onto the driveway in front of his cabin.
For the first time in his life he’d driven the speed limit. He was terrified he
might shake Erin, exacerbating her multiple bruises and scrapes. Stubborn
little spitfire that she was, she’d insisted on coming home. She refused to
stay another night in the hospital. Nate consented. That damn hospital bed
barely held her. It was hell with both of them in it. Neither one of them got
much sleep.

He dashed around to the passenger side and reached in to
pick her up.

She demurred.

“I can walk, Nate.”

“I know you can, Erin. But I don’t want that much space
between us. I need you here, in my arms. Just so you know Erin, with what I’ve
got planned for you, this is where you’re gonna be for a long time to come.”

A shy smile flashed across her pale face.

“What do you have planned for me, Nate?”

He grinned. “Probably shouldn’t admit this, darlin’, given
that I’m a cop. Most of the stuff I’m gonna do is illegal in at least
thirty-five states. The rest of ’em should be outlawed in all fifty.”

Erin quirked a questioning brow.

“Are these what you’d call ‘normal’ things, Nate?”

He guffawed.

“
Hell
no, honey. There’s as ‘abnormal’ as they come.”

Erin snuggled against his chest and sighed.

“That’s good, Nate. You were right. The only person whose
life is more abnormal than yours, is mine.”

Nate’s chuckle vibrated against the sensitive skin on her
throat.

“And, Erin? That’s the way we’re going to keep it.”

Want more of Erin and Nate? Pick
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Thank you for reading Playing with
Fire. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much I enjoyed writing it. I love all my
characters – their strengths as well as their weaknesses. Nate is one of my
favorites.  He’s jaded, obnoxious and outrageous.  But like all damaged heroes
his redeeming features outweigh his bad-assed actions. Erin is damaged by the
hideous events of her past but as Connor says she is a noble survivor. Erin is
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