Yup, screaming was at the top of my to-do list, except Charlie hastily stood and waved off my inhaled intent to alert the entire household to the fact he'd broken into my apartment.
He looked suitably concerned by my reaction I held onto the shreds of decorum remaining me while he hastily spoke.
"Please, Miss-sorry, Deputy Fleming." He got points for that quick about-face correction. "I'm not here to hurt you, I swear. I have information and I couldn't deliver it out in the open."
Didn't justify lurking in the dark in my private space, but I'd cut him a wee bit of slack. The last person (prior to Pamela, that was) I'd found hiding out in my place had turned out to be a stalker and a kind of ally who had almost died trying to save me and solve the murder of a model. Mila Martin might have been in prison for her attack on Frederick Newmark, but there was enough of a feeling of familiarity to this invasion I figured I needed to up my personal security.