He nodded.
A chill went over her. "Listen, Tabby, I'm safe. Just do what he wants. Okay?"
"I don't know."
"Please trust me."
"You, I trust. Him? Hell, I don't even know who he is."
"I know," Amanda said. "You head over to Mom's and I'll stay in touch. Okay?"
"Okay," Tabitha groused, "but if I don't hear from you by eight o'clock tonight, I'm going hunting."
"All right, I'll talk to you later. Love you."
"You, too."
Amanda hung up the phone. "You heard all that?"
Hunter leaned over her, his body so close that she could feel his heat. His gaze bored into hers. "All my senses are highly developed."
His gaze dropped to her chest where her nipples drew tight from the intense stare. "I can hear your heart beating faster, your blood flowing through your veins as you sit there wondering whether or not I would really hurt you."
The man was truly frightening. "Would you?" she whispered.
He locked gazes with her. "What do you think?"
She stared at him, trying to get a reading on his mood and feelings, but the man was a brick wall. "I honestly don't know."
"You're smarter than I thought," he said as he took a step back.
Amanda didn't know what to say to that. So she called work and told them she was sick for the day.
Hunter rubbed his eyes again.
"Do the lights bother you?" she asked.
He dropped his hand. "Yes."
She remembered what he said about his senses.
Before she could ask him anything else, he picked up the phone and dialed a number.
"Hola, Rosa. Como esta?"
Spanish? she thought with a start. He spoke flawless Spanish?
Even more intriguing was the incredibly sexy sound of the words in that strange accent of his.
"Si, bien. Necesito hablar con Nick, por favor."
Hunter cradled the phone between his cheek and shoulder as he massaged the wrist where the cuff was making a red mark. She wondered if he realized the feral intensity that came into his eyes every time he saw the cuffs.
"Hey, Nick," he said after a minute. "I need you to retrieve my car from the corner of Iberville and Clay, and bring it to St. Claude. You can leave it in the doctors' lot."
He let go of the cuff and took the phone back in his hand. "Yeah, I know I'm a real asshole to work for, but you can't knock the pay and perks. Head out at three, and after you drop my car off, you can go home early."
He paused as he listened for a few seconds. "Also grab the backup case out of the cabinet... yeah, that one. I need you to bring it and my spare keys to the hospital and leave them for Dr. Tate Bennett."