Your fucking hard-on says it clearly enough,” she muttered with a sarcastic smile. He should have let it go, but he didn’t like arrogance and she was loaded with it at the moment. “I’m turned on imagining a woman I do want—and she’s not you. I don’t want to see you anymore.” She turned toward the door with an irritated huff but wheeled on him before she passed over the threshold. “Odd she’s not here then, hmm? Isn’t it fun to want what you can’t have?” He glared at her. “Leave.” His voice was seething. What business did he have expecting anything less from her? He was dumping her and she’d come over expecting to get laid. He watched her walk to her car, feeling defeated. Well that settled that. He was definitely not going to be convincing himself he could get past her anytime soon. And he was never going to get laid again at this rate. When he hopped in his shower he stared at the tile wall in front of him. He couldn’t quite wrap his head around why he couldn’t let this one go. It wasn’t the chase. He wasn’t one of those guys who only wanted the un-gettable get. He wanted to get and keep her. He wanted to end this fucking case and have her and not have to let her go. And he wanted that to happen without her getting hurt in the process because he wasn’t quite sure he could handle that. Her file was sitting on his desk and as he walked back into his bedroom naked after toweling off, he grabbed it and flopped down on his bed. He read the report, he read her statements, he reviewed his notes, he reviewed the transcription of the message that had been left on her answering machine and he studied her pictures. There were more pictures than they would likely ever need but he looked at each and every one closely. He studied the injuries as his heart pounded. The bruises and scuffs had faded significantly since then but seeing the fresh marks on her body in graphic, high-definition color left his anxiety soaring. Then he let his gaze study her eyes. There were so many close-ups of her face that showed her eyes. She had incredible round blue eyes and they glistened with barely restrained emotion in the pictures. His mind left him again and he imagined her pleasuring herself in just the way the lunatic had spoken of. He’d watched her. Dillon didn’t doubt it one bit. He’d seen how she fucked herself when there was no man in her life and as he flipped from one picture to another, seeking out her wide stunning eyes, he imagined it. He could hear the sounds she would make in his head—the wet, slick smacking sounds as she plunged her dildo in and out of her pussy—and when he finally lit on one particular picture, he stared. He dropped the others to the folder and held this one above his face. Her eyes were looking straight at the camera when this one had been taken, unlike the others where her eyes were shifted off to some spot in the distance. But not this one. Her eyes were looking at the camera and by extension of that right into his eyes. He studied and he heard her moans of pleasure in his mind. He imagined her saying his name as she writhed beneath his body and he stared at that damn picture. His cock was hard and painfully engorged. All it took was a picture and a bit of imagination and he was ready to explode. He stroked up and down the length of his erection, wanting his release. He just had to get her out of his system. He couldn’t let himself believe this was all about her. He couldn’t let himself think he could care about this woman he barely knew. He simply couldn’t let himself want something that was so fucking off-limits. But when he came, he was uttering her name over and over and over and as the last of his seed was spent on his stomach as his muscles clenched and contracted, he was forced to admit this was absolutely all about her. Her picture stared back at him as he gasped and stroked through the last of his release. “Fuck.” He muttered to himself