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Tawny Taylor Carpe Nocturne 2: Kiss Me, Kill Me - 10 -<br />
“Yeah, you spoke too soon, asshole,” he murmured to the taillights of the car.<br />
It was too dark to tell if there were any other people in the car with him, but<br />
Burke was guessing there weren’t.<br />
Twenty or so minutes later, he crept into the parking lot. He was hugely relieved<br />
to see the car was parked where he’d left it. And he guessed, by the subtle shift of<br />
shadows inside the vehicle, that Isabella and Sylvie were still waiting, probably getting<br />
anxious and impatient, not that he could blame them. By his estimate, it had been at<br />
least forty-five minutes since he’d left them.<br />
It was a wonder they hadn’t wandered off to go looking for him. He knew<br />
Isabella had probably been tempted.<br />
One thing that bothered him as he approached the car was how careless they<br />
were being. Even though he couldn’t see them per se, he could see their forms shifting.<br />
He’d told them to stay quiet and still, to avoid calling any undue attention to<br />
themselves. Looked like they were practically holding a party in there.<br />
And then he realized what was going on. It was the legs and trunk of a nonfemale<br />
body emerging from the vehicle that shed some light on the situation. The car<br />
parked next to his, engine running, headlights off, gave him a fairly reliable clue whose<br />
legs and torso they were.<br />
“Fuck!” he whispered, cutting a sharp right to hide behind a crop of trees in an<br />
empty lot. “Should’ve known you wouldn’t quit so easy.”<br />
“Why would you think something as stupid as that?” Isabella said behind him.<br />
He jerked. The dog tinkled -- again -- dousing the front of his clothes. It then<br />
decided to yap its fool head off at Isabella.<br />
Burke dropped the suitcase and tried to muzzle its mouth with his hand, but it<br />
bit him. He swallowed an angry growl and was about to go for a second attempt when<br />
Sylvie jumped up from behind a shrub and snatched it out of his arms, whispering,<br />
“Shhhhhush, Lulu! Before you get us caught.”<br />
“You’re… Who’s in the car?” Confused and relieved, Burke turned back to the<br />
car to see if Miko had heard them.
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