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Lucas beairl"

Sascha irl?" They’d ender, though Sascha couldn’t help but know--her baby’s er psychic warmth inside of her Still, she liked to play with Lucas He’d ordered her not to tell hi his head, he pressed a kiss to the top of her abdoood night to their babe

She ran her fingers through his hair "I love you so ot thick

"Hey now" Raising his head, he touched his forehead to hers "Pregnancy horain?"

A jerky nod as sheMarsha, but I swear I wasn’t in any danger"

Lucas went predator-still "Who ith you?"

"I’o snarl at them"

"I’m their alpha--they should’ve told ainst his chest "I’ht, she’d earned her pack the sentinel had a mile-wide soft spot for Sascha "Why wasn’t he on Max’s surveillance?"

"He was less than thirty seconds away, in the e the corridor with his superduper high-tech gee-whizz surveillance equip He even had me wired in case Martha suddenly went insane and tried to kill asp

Lucas nipped her lower lip in punishment for the smartaleck response--and because he was proud of his otten his oay "Coo see what Blondie has to say"

"Lucas, did you notice?"

"What?"

"Max and his J"

Lucas leaned one ar "No, I didn’t notice"

"Sophia Russo’s alration," Sascha said "I only picked it up because of my empathy So much pain, so much" She closed her hand into a fist, rubbed it over her heart "I wanted to reach across and tell her it was alright, that she was safe, that we’d help her"

Lucas was used to his ed to protect his people "She’s in the Net, Sascha No way to know if she can be trusted"

"I know" A stubborn look "And if she decides to call me one day, I won’t say no to any request she makes"

"Were you this hardheaded when I rowl fore"

"Well, stop it" In spite of his teasing words, her responses, he caught the edge of fear in her eyes "Don’t worry, kitten The cop knohat he’s doing" Max Shannon, Lucas thought,with that easy smile of his, but it was deceptive--the cat had sensed the truth, sensed the hunter that lurked beneath the hus down his prey"

CHAPTER 19

No one ever expects betrayal No one

--Fro it back to the Duncan building by five, Max and Sophia ed to round up the other four people who’d appeared on the surveillance footage

The intern, Ryan Asquith, was unable to provide any useful infor "Detective," she said "I’ll get straight to the point While I did see Edward for a brief period this n a contract, I was in a privateat the time of his murder, and I’d rather not--"