The Shifter and the Dreamer (6 page)

They searched amongst them until they came to a spot where they could see both the library door and where Amanda had parked her Jeep. Ryan pawed at the ground. There was a light impression.

Yes, this was where he’d waited. Cameron took the digital camera from his neck and started to take pictures. Ryan roamed behind him but he knew his partner wouldn’t go too far.

Cameron took pictures of where the killer had waited and then some of the parking lot and library door to show his view. A whine behind him told him Ryan had found more. Cameron put the cover back on the camera and went to his partner.

There, in the softened dirt, were drag marks. He had taken Amanda through this way. They followed the small trail until it came to the street. This was where he would have parked.

Cameron took some more pictures before he whistled for Ryan. Tomorrow they would interview everyone in the area to see if they had seen a vehicle parked here.

Katy closed
Allysa’s
bedroom door and headed into the kitchen to start a pot of coffee. Once that was done, she sat at the table and got out the files she’d brought home.

She separated them into piles of each of the murders. She went through the very first murder. Janette Collins, a twenty-six-year-old, single pre-school teacher. She had been taken from a mall in Dallas where she had been shopping for her sister’s wedding present.

She had been found in a drainage ditch. Her hands and feet bound, her body beaten, and her pinkie missing. The pictures did nothing to calm Katy’s already turning stomach. This man was an animal.

She made a cup of coffee and opened the files on the second case. Carla
Moffit
, a twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher. Taken from a park where she jogged every morning at five o’clock.

The pictures were so similar to the
first,
there was no doubt that the murders were related. Carla had been found on the side of the highway when a truck driver had stopped to take a piss.

The third and fourth murders matched the first two. She had just opened another file when there was a knock on the door. She frowned at the clock above the stove. It was already past ten and no one should be by.

She grabbed her sidearm as she made her way to the front door. She looked out the peephole and saw Cameron on her porch.

Opening the door, she glared at him.

Cameron just smiled and leant against the doorjamb.

“How’d you find out where I live?” she asked, not that it would have been difficult.

He shrugged.
“Small town and all that.”

She sighed. “It’s late, what do you want?”

“
Gonna
invite me in?”

She really didn’t want to. He looked too good standing there in an old pair of worn jeans, tight black T-shirt, and a wild look in his eye. But even as she debated whether to let him in or not, she was standing back and he walked in.

She closed the door and he walked further into the living room.

“I have some coffee made if you want,” she offered.

He turned away from studying the living room and smiled. “That would be good.”

She refilled her cup and made him a new one. He took it from her and sat at the table. He flipped through the files and looked up.
“Late night reading?”

She shrugged. “Hadn’t had lot of time to go through all of them.”

He nodded and handed her the camera he still carried. Katy sat in the chair she’d been in earlier. She powered the camera on then flicked through the pictures. The pictures were of the library, the parking lot, the area that surrounded it, and finally a street.

“That street is where we think he was parked. Someone could have seen him. Could have at least seen what car was there,” Cameron told her.

Katy flipped through the pictures again. “This is good. Christi is even smaller than we are. There is a good chance someone did see the car.”

“He made a mistake coming here. In the city he could get away without being seen. Here, someone will have noticed him at some time,” Cameron agreed.

“I’m having my deputies check all the motels here and any surrounding areas. If he’s still here, he has to be staying somewhere. I also contacted a friend at the Border Patrol. If we can get the information about the car that will help,” Katy told him.

“That’s good. I think the case is moving pretty good.”

Katy agreed. But she still had what
Allysa
had seen heavy on her mind. “Why did he come here?”

Cameron drained his coffee before he set the cup down. “I don’t know. I’ve racked my brain over that. We were close in Dallas. I know we were. But why did he come so far west? What are the chances he would come here?”

That was what Katy was worried about. Because if for some reason he had come here because of her, Amanda Caldwell’s death was on her conscience.

Was he from an old case? Had they come across him sometime when they were partners? She just didn’t know. She looked up and met his eyes.

“How did you know about the library?” he asked.

Katy blinked at him. “I told you—”

“Why don’t you tell me the truth this time?” he interrupted.

“What? I…”

“You know something more.” Cameron narrowed his eyes. “You always knew more.”

She met his look.
“Just like
you
knew other…different things about the cases.”

He grinned. He’d wondered if she ever noticed anything unusual about him. “I’m sure I don’t know what you mean,” he said instead.

“Really?” she asked with the raise of an eyebrow. “How about that time you followed a guy for twelve blocks because he ‘smelt’ familiar? Then once we had him in custody, he confessed to robbing that bank.”

“Just lucky I guess,” Cameron quipped. “How about that co-ed who said she was one of the woman raped by the serial rapist, and you figured out that she had seen her boyfriend with another woman and wanted his sympathy?”

“We both knew she was lying,” she argued.

“Yes, but you knew about the boyfriend.”

“A woman thing,” she said, laughing.

“Yeah, I’m sure,” Cameron said before he dropped his smile. “I think there’s more to you than you’re saying.”

“Right back
atcha
,” Katy responded and finished her own coffee.

“Okay then.” Cameron stood. Katy also got up and started walking towards the door.

She only took about three steps before Cameron grasped her elbows and pulled her back against him.

“Are we done talking shop then?” he whispered in her ear.

Katy shivered. She could feel the heat from his body. It made her
want
to bury herself inside and forget. “I don’t think…”

His lips brushed the sensitive skin below her ear. “Don’t think.
Just feel.”

His hands moved up and caressed her arms. “You used to be able to lose yourself with me. Do you remember?”

She did. She had been able to let everything go when she was with him. Even the dreams had come less, although they hadn’t stopped.

“Tell me you didn’t miss me…didn’t miss us,” he whispered.

Katy arched into his touch when he wrapped his arms around her and cupped her breasts. She moaned as his fingers brushed over her nipples.

“That’s what I thought.” He spun her around and closed his mouth over hers.

Katy opened for him as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Cameron felt solid against her and it was all she could do to keep herself from climbing his body.

The kiss deepened and she slid one hand into his hair and held him tightly against her. She couldn’t resist. Their bodies moved together until he pressed her against the table. He lifted her up and sat her on top.

His mouth left hers and travelled down her throat. She whimpered in need and leant back. His fingers quickly worked the buttons of her uniform shirt open.

Cool air met her flesh as he parted the front of her shirt. He bent his head and captured one silk covered nipple in his mouth. She bucked against him.

“Cameron!” she panted. God, she wanted him.
Wanted him inside her this time.
Not the teasing, no taunting, just the two of them locked together.

He released her and trailed kisses over her breast to her other nipple. He lavished that one with swipes of his tongue.

“Oh…yes,” she encouraged.

He hummed against her skin. Then before she knew what he intended, he grabbed both cups of her silk bra and ripped. He surprised a laugh out of her.

“Want to feel your skin,” he told her.

“Yes! Yes!” She clawed at his T-shirt until he pulled it over his head. He still had the best looking chest she had ever seen.
Muscular, wide, hairless and so yummy.
She wanted a taste of him. “Come here.”

He grinned before he bent back down. “What do you want?”

“You… I want you!”

Cameron teased his lips over hers. “What do you want with me?”

“I want to taste you,” she told him. “Please.”

He kissed her again. Katy scraped her nails down his sides, causing him to hiss into her mouth. The kiss grew hotter until they had to break away to breathe.

Cameron didn’t slow down though. He attacked her boots then her pants, removed her shirt and the remainder of her bra, until he had her naked. Then he covered the top of her body with his.

Katy wrapped her legs around his waist. “Naked, get naked,” she panted.

Both of their hands went to the button and zipper of his pants. They managed to release him from the confines of the jeans then he stepped away to shove them down his hips.

Katy’s breath caught in her throat. His cock stood out hard and proud. He ran his hand over the tip, collecting the
precum
.

“Come here,” he ordered.

Katy scrambled off the table and dropped to her knees in front of him.

Her heart was beating so fast. She wanted him like she had never wanted another man in her life. In the back of her mind, she knew she shouldn’t be doing this but she couldn’t stop herself. There had always been something wild about loving Cameron.

She replaced his hand with her own. She pumped his cock a few times before she leant forward and took the tip into her mouth.

He moaned and wrapped his fingers into her hair. “Suck me,” he demanded.

Katy licked the tip of his shaft, ran her tongue under the sensitive head, before she took him deep.

His heady taste assaulted her senses and she moaned as she started to bob her head.

Chapter Seven

Cameron groaned and tightened his hold on Katy. She knew how to go down on a
man, that
was for sure. She’d always told him she enjoyed doing it, and with her on her knees, he had no reason to doubt her.

The hand that wasn’t pumping his prick was below fondling and rolling his balls. It felt so good. He moved his hips slowly, not wanting to choke her and at the same time trying to hold off his orgasm. Katy, however, had other plans. She moaned around his cock in her mouth, and the vibration went straight to his balls.

He held her head still and started to whip his hips faster until he was full out fucking her mouth. She gave up control easily and opened her throat to take everything he gave.

She pressed against the very sensitive area behind his balls and he lost control.

“Oh God!” he cried. “Yes…yes…
gonna
…” he warned right before he shot down her throat.

Katy swallowed his seed down until his prick was clean then she released him with a loud wet sound.

He reached down and pulled her up and into his arms. He was still hard. The best thing about his gift was the ability to go all night long. He could come several times and not lose his erection. Katy had teased him about the vitamins he must take. Soon she would find out what the reason really was.

He kissed her hard. He didn’t want to think about his powers right then. Or the fact that he believed she had some of her own. She wrapped a leg around his waist and humped up against him.

He growled and lifted her off the ground before he turned and pressed her against the kitchen wall. Her arms wrapped around his neck and her legs wrapped around his waist. He had always enjoyed this position, having the ability to go inside her deeper than normal.

He grabbed a hold of his cock and teased the entrance of her pussy.

“Is
this what
you want, honey?” he teased.

“Yes…please,” she begged.

He started to push inside. She was tight, the walls of her cunt pulsing as he pushed deeper.

She cried out as he slid all the way inside.

He paused once he was buried balls-deep, her inner muscles convulsing, trying to hold him inside. “I’m
gonna
fuck you, darling.
Hard and deep.
Gonna
make you mine,” he told her, his voice strained even to his own ears.

She moaned and arched her back.

“Hold onto me,” he ordered then slowly pulled out and plunged back in.

Sweet sounds tumbled out of her mouth and he stroked in and out of her hard and deep just like he’d promised. Her nails dug into his shoulders as she held on.

She moved her hips to meet each thrust and the sound of flesh slamming into flesh echoed loudly around them.

“More,” she begged and he sped up.

She threw her head back as her body broke apart, and she cried out as she climaxed. It wasn’t enough for him. He was going to claim her. Make her his forever.

“Again!” he ordered and continued to pound into her.

She bucked under him, unable to stay with the rhythm. Cameron continued to take her body. He was close again too.

“You’re going to come with me. This time together,” he told her.
“Now!”

She screamed, her body shaking hard. Cameron bent his head, attached his teeth to her shoulder and bit down.

He thrust one last time as his cock emptied his seed deep inside her, and he tasted her blood from his bite.

They both fought to get their breathing under control. When Cameron thought she was ready, he pulled out and slowly let her feet touch the ground.