Silas (43 page)

“
You need to stay away from
this part of the city,” he told me. “You’re no match for Hayden
Barclay.”

“
You can’t stop me. I want
Hayden brought to justice, and I’ll do whatever I can to make sure
that happens.”

“
I think I could stop you if
I needed to.” He folded his arms over his chest.

Little thrills went through
me. Something about the way he’d said that made me wish I could
kiss him again.

Stop it
, I told myself.
So, he’s the most
attractive man you’ve ever seen. But he’s dressed up in spandex and
a mask. He’s crazy. He’s bad news.

The cab pulled up across the
street. The cabbie got out. “Cecily Kane?”

I waved. “That’s me.” I
turned to the masked man. “I have to stop Hayden. It’s a personal
thing for me.”

“
You think it isn’t personal
for me?”

I hadn’t given it a lot of
thought, really. Everything about this masked man was making it
hard for me to think properly.

“
Don’t come back to that
part of the city,” he said in a voice like cold steel. He waited
until I was across the street and safe inside the cab with the door
shut after me.

Then he swung onto his
unique motorcycle and revved the engine.

On impulse, I rolled down the window in
the cab. I got out my phone, and I began snapping pictures of him
as he drove away.

Even captured in a photograph, he
looked larger than life, too virile and enormous to be
real.

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