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He ran his hand across her hips and pushed his body more tightly into hers.

Then suddenly his entire body tensed. She looked up at him, but as she opened her mouth to ask what was wrong, he laid a single finger across her lips. Immediately her pulse spiked.

He slipped out of bed and pulled on his jeans and shirt, then retrieved his pistol from the nightstand, where he’d left it earlier. “Stay here and lock the door behind me,” he whispered before slipping silently out of the room.

Alaina hurried to the door as quickly as she could without noise. Carter had already disappeared downstairs in the darkness. She strained to make out any sound, but all she heard was her own heartbeat. She knew Carter had heard something, though. He’d gone from erotic god to cop in a split second.