Seal It With A Kiss (McClellan Trilogy) (19 page)

Brock continued to call Holly’s phone in the chance that she would answer, but each time, it went straight to voicemail. “Holly damn it—answer your phone!” He didn’t want to arrive with lights and sirens in case the perp wasn’t in the apartment yet and he would end up scaring him off and they still wouldn’t have him. His heart was pounding in his chest and felt like it would explode at any minute with the adrenaline pumping through his body. He was weaving in and out of traffic like a maniac. He sure hoped that a fellow officer wouldn’t see him and pull him over—that was the last thing he needed.

Holly opened the bathroom door and looked down the hall—nothing. She headed to the front door to check to see if it was still locked—it was. Next she went to each of the windows and double checked them. When she found that everything was still locked, she finally let her guard down and headed to her bedroom. As soon as she walked into the bedroom, she was grabbed from behind. She instinctively screamed before a hand clamped over her mouth. “Keep quiet bitch and you won’t get hurt.”

Holly could feel the blade of a knife on her neck, so she nodded in compliance. In all of her training, she knew that she needed to be patient and wait for a window of opportunity to disarm her attacker. Right now wasn’t it—she could feel a trickle of blood run down her neck as he pressed the blade firmly against her skin all the while moving her towards the bed. The bedroom was pitch black, so Holly kept her eyes open to help her them adjust to the darkness quicker.

He began to tell her that if she cooperated with him, it would be over soon and she wouldn’t be hurt. “I’m going to blindfold you—I don’t want you to be able to identify me. It would be best if you don’t fight me. It didn’t turn out so well with the last girl.”

Holly wanted to get a confession out of him, “What last girl? What do you plan to do with me?”

“No talking—just do as I say and I will take what I want and leave.”

“Are you the guy I have been reading about in all the papers and heard news reports about on the TV?”

“Sorry—I don’t read newspapers and I don’t watch much TV. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You plan on raping me—don’t you? You’re the rapist that the police have been looking for.”

“It’s not rape if you don’t fight back. You know it could be enjoyable for you if you let it. I thought I told you to keep quiet.”

He set the knife down on the end table while tightening his grip on Holly as he pulled a blindfold out of his pocket. Holly knew that it was going to take two hands to tie the blindfold and that was going to be her opportunity to take him down. She also knew that he was smart, the end table was to his back and he could easily grab the knife again. She was going to get one chance, and in that one chance she needed to immobilize him.

Brock arrived at Holly’s apartment to find the door locked and all the lights off. He pounded on the door and didn’t get any response. He was ready to kick in the door when Julie showed up and used her key to open the door. They could hear a commotion in the bedroom. Brock didn’t think his feet could get him there fast enough as he ran with his gun drawn.

“Yeah, not gonna happen.” Were the last words Holly spoke before she took her opportunity and elbowed the perp in the solar plexus with all her strength. When he doubled over, she spun around and brought her knee up hard into his throat instantly dropping him to the floor face first. Holly picked up the knife and threw it across the room before she pulled open the drawer in the night stand and grabbed her handcuffs. She had them on the perp before he knew what hit him.

When Brock and Julie entered the bedroom, Holly was sitting on top of the rapist grinning at them, “We got him!”

“No sweetheart—you got him.” Brock said as he holstered his gun and pulled her into his arms.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

“I want her arrested!” The perp screamed and pointed as Brock was picking him up off of the floor.

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you?”

“Yes, but I want her arrested. She assaulted me!”

“You are under arrest for breaking and entering, assaulting a police officer, and once we get DNA from you I am sure I can add ten rapes and one murder to that.” Brock said as he was stood him in front of Officer Harris. “Is this him?”

“Yes—that’s the guy all right.”

“I didn’t assault a police officer and I didn’t do anything to this woman either.”

Holly walked in front of him and pulled out her badge, “Yes, you did asshole. Get this piece of crap out of here.”

Now that he saw Holly up close, Brock noticed the cut and dried blood on her neck. Instinctively he reached up to touch her, “You need to go to the hospital and get checked out.”

“I’m fine—really, it’s not deep. Let’s get down to the station and get this guy processed. I will need to fill out a report too.”

“Julie and I both tried calling you several times and it went straight to voicemail—I was thinking the worst.”

“I’m sorry—my phone died earlier today so I plugged it in to charge it and I must have forgotten to turn it back on.”

Brock wrapped his arms around her and pulled her tight. Holly looked up into his eyes and whispered “You shouldn’t…”

Before she could finish her sentence, his lips had captured hers. Holly responded to his kiss, and felt a need to get even closer. Julie walked over to them and cleared her throat to let them know they were being watched. Brock ended the kiss, “We’ll finish this later—in private.”

They arrived at the precinct to find all the local news media waiting for them. “How did they hear so quickly?” Holly asked.

“I called Captain Lewiston to fill him in—he must have called the Mayor and it snowballed from there.”

All of a sudden there were several microphones shoved in Holly’s face and everyone was talking at once. “Were you the detective that went undercover to catch the serial rapist?”

“How did you capture him?”

“Did he attack you?”

“Can we get a statement?”

Brock pushed Holly ahead of him ignoring the questions and upon reaching the front door, he turned around, “We will prepare a statement for the press and you will get that as soon as we are able to release it. Now, please let us do our job.”

After Holly had given her report of the night’s events, she entered the side area of the interrogation room to find Captain Lewiston.

“Great job tonight Detective Cavanaugh.”

“Thank you sir, I was getting worried that he had moved on to another location. How is the interrogation going?”

“He lawyered up right away. Detective McClellan is headed over to Judge Thorsten’s house to get a subpoena for a DNA sample and a body check to see if there is still evidence on his body of where vic number ten scratched him.”

“I tried to get a confession out of him while he had the knife to my throat, but he wouldn’t talk.” Holly offered.

“You went above and beyond on this case detective.”

“I just don’t know how he got into the apartment. I had all the windows and doors locked and I re-checked them before I headed to bed and they were all still locked.”

“Officer O’Malley found a lock pick kit on him when he frisked him before putting him in the cruiser.”

“He must have relocked the door once he gained entry then.” Holly concluded.

“No one would be any wiser or notice that their apartment had been compromised.”

“I sure wasn’t. When I was in the bathroom, I thought I heard something, but when I paused to listen, I wasn’t able to hear anything out of the ordinary. Even with all of the training that I have, he took me by surprise. I can’t even begin to imagine what the other vics experienced and how frightened they must have been.”

Brock arrived back at the precinct with the subpoenas in hand. “Time to nail his ass.” He said as he held the papers in the air to Captain Lewiston and Holly.

“His attorney just arrived and asked to have some time alone with his client. We will give him fifteen minutes and then you go in there.”

“Yes, Captain.”

Brock knocked once and entered the interrogation room with Wilson from the lab, “I have a subpoena to gather a DNA sample and do a body search of your client.” Brock said as he handed them to Todd’s attorney.

The attorney read through the subpoenas and whispered into his client’s ear before nodding that they could take the DNA sample and that the client would cooperate for the body search.

The DNA was collected and sent away for testing and Todd had removed his shirt and pants. Brock looked him over carefully before telling him he could put his clothes back on.

“Arraignment will be Monday morning in front of Judge Walker.” The attorney informed his client. “I should be able to get you out on bail as breaking and entering and assault of a police officer are misdemeanors. The burden of proof will be on the shoulders of the prosecuting attorney.”

“I wouldn’t count on getting out any time soon.” Brock said glaring at Todd.

Officer O’Malley was standing outside the door as Brock exited, “Lock him up tight.”

“Consider it done detective.”

Brock headed to the side room to take Holly home only to find that she wasn’t there. “Captain—where did Detective Cavanaugh go?”

“Officer Harris took her home. You need to go home too. I need you both on your game Monday morning.”

Brock didn’t know whether to be pissed off or hurt that Holly had gone home without him. “She’s not getting away with it.” He said as he got in his car and headed to her house. When he arrived, he pounded on the front door. Holly opened the door mid knock wearing a hot pink bra and panties. Brock’s mouth dropped open and he immediately became hard. Holly grabbed him by the shirt pulling him into the house and kicking the door shut. She wrapped her arms around his neck pulling his mouth down to meet hers as their tongues frantically intertwined trying to get closer.

His anger melted away with every second he spent kissing Holly. In one swift movement, he had the clasp on the front of her bra undone and her breasts were bare for his feasting. Breaking the kiss, he ran his tongue down her neck across her collarbone. He backed her up against the wall as he picked her up. “Wrap your legs around me.”

Holly quickly complied as Brock took her breast into his mouth and gently tugged at her nipple with his teeth. “These past two weeks have been awful without you. I have missed you so much. I need you Holly.”

Holly looked down at Brock with desperation in her eyes, “Then what the hell are you waiting for?”

“Are these your favorites?” He asked with his thumb on her panties.

“No. W…”

Before she could get the word ‘why’ out, Brock had ripped them off of her, freed his erection and sunk deep inside of her. Holly’s nerve endings were on fire and it wasn’t long before she was screaming through an orgasm. Her muscles quivered around him causing him to lose all control over his own release.

“You are in so much trouble.” He panted.

“I don’t know what you are talking about detective.”

“I’m only getting started.” He said as he carried her into the bedroom.

Holly snuggled into Brock’s body, resting her head on his arm. She closed her eyes and breathed in his scent before drifting off to sleep. Brock could tell the moment Holly drifted off; her breathing became shallow and her body relaxed into him. He kissed her on the forehead before drifting off to sleep himself.

Brock woke to Holly running her tongue across his collarbone up his neck to nibble on his ear as her hand slowly moved from his chest down across his abs. “And I thought you would be tired and want to sleep all day.” He murmured.

When Holly reached his groin, he was ready for her. “I guess not.” He said as he pulled her on top of him and brought her lips down to meet his. Ending the kiss, Holly slowly moved down his body leaving a trail of kisses and running her tongue over the outline of his tattoo. She loved his body and enjoyed the reaction he had to her touch. She continued her downward decent stopping to nip at his hipbone as she gripped his erection, slowly moving her hand up and down on him. Her tongue followed her hand on his shaft before she took him into her mouth. Brock’s moan was encouragement to her to continue, and when Holly moaned with him in her mouth he thought he was going to explode. He pulled her up and got into a sitting position leaning against the headboard, “Ride me.”

Holly was only too willing as she guided him into her and began moving up and down. Brock cupped her breasts in his hands and ran his tongue across each nipple before taking a nipple between his teeth and swirling his tongue around it. When he moved on to the other one, it was enough to send Holly over the edge pulling him right along with her.

As they lay in each other’s arms, Brock broke the silence, “When can I meet your parents?”

“You want to meet my parents?”

“Sure—I want you to meet mine too.”

“I guess we can check flights for next weekend, if that will work for you.”

“Great—you can meet my parents tonight.”

“Tonight? What’s the hurry?”

“No hurry, I just haven’t had a chance to get over there since this case started and now that it’s over, I’d like to go and you can come with me.”

“Will Luke and Brooke be there?”

“I don’t think so, but I can call and invite them if you would like.”

After they showered and ate breakfast, Holly and Brock headed over to his house to pick up Charlie and bring him back home. On the way over, he realized that he didn’t want Charlie going back to Holly’s—hell, he didn’t want Holly going back to her house either. “I want you to move in with me and Charlie.”

“I’m sorry? What did you say?”

“I want you to move in with me. Charlie is already settled in—the only thing missing is you.”

“So this is blackmail then—either I move in or you keep Charlie?”

“I really don’t think you should look at it that way. You would make a couple of guys pretty darn happy though if you did.”