5

Justice read the note Jessie had left on the bed. He’d gotten hung up with the press

by the reporters but had hurried back to his room looking forward to being with her.

He read the note again, understood she’d gotten an emergency call from the task force

after they’d gotten a lead on a New Species female and she’d had to leave. Tim Oberto

had sent someone to pick her up. He snarled and crumpled up the note in his fist.

Justice pulled out his cell phone and froze. What would he do? Call the head of the

task force and complain that he’d ordered Jessie to work when Justice wanted to climb

back into bed with her? He cursed and lowered his cell. Jessie would never forgive him

if he did that. Human women were private about their sex lives and independent. He

doubted she would want the task force and the people she worked for to know she’d

been in his bed. She’d also possibly re