"There's a website devoted to pictures of dead bodies." We all looked at him, and he smirked.
"Hey.
Don't look at me--it's the job." He saw Tony's blank face and continued.
"Information technologies, IT--you know, computers.
At work, when we get bored, we issue challenges--like the person who can come up with the worst website gets taken out to lunch.
I got the free lunch--the dead-bodies guy was the runner-up.
When I chatted up the bounty hunter's people, they showed me the photos of the bodies in the file.
The dead- bodies website has a section devoted to animal kills.
I recognized one of the photos from that." "You are a sick, sick man," I told him.
"Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.
"Someone's after you," Tony told Adam.
"See," I said.
"Tony thinks you're the target, too." Adam shrugged.
"I'll be careful." Werewolves are tough, and Adam tougher than most--but I'd seen a lot of them die.
"Yeah, well, you keep me on speed dial and don't kill anyone if you can help it." Tony looked at me again.
"Hey, Mercy.
Did you talk to Sylvia? She looked pretty upset when she left.
Are they all right?" His heart was in his eyes.
He was interested in her and had approached her once.
She'd told him she didn't date people she worked with--and that had been that, as far as she was concerned.
"She wasn't happy about Heart pointing a gun at Maia," I told him.
"But I think she was madder at me than Heart.
He didn't bring in a werewolf for her kids to play with." His face went police-officer blank.
"What?" "Yeah," I said.
"I don't think she'll be coming here to get her car fixed anymore.
Gabriel's not coming back either." "You did what ?" "Cut it out," growled Adam.
He gestured at Sam.
"This wolf would never harm a hair on a child's head, and Mercy knew it." "Special circumstances today," I reminded Adam harshly-- how could he have forgotten that we weren't dealing with Samuel but with his wolf? "She was right to be angry.
If I'd remembered Sylvia and the girls were going to be here, I wouldn't have brought him." "Were they in any danger?" asked Tony.
"No," said Adam, and he meant it.