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"I’ve got your back"

Kerrick whirled and glared at Thorne "Do whatever the fuck you want Just keep away from the woman"

Thorne nodded "Understood"

Kerrick wanted to knock him flat … for no reason He shifted back around, his hands closing into heavy fists He flexed his wing-locks

The row of booths was jaged at his ears and ratcheted his temper up a notch, and then another He didn’t knohat he would do if he found her engaged in any of these acts

He sharpened and lengthened his vision

Halfway down the crowded row, the path cleared and he had a perfect view of a tall woman who faced two Militia Warriors

Alison

Alison

Time froze; his feet as well He couldn’t move He could only look, wonder, crave, stunned like a beast caught in the headlights

She was sexy as hell with soft cri past her shoulders and down her back, so different froht, controlled twist at the medical center She wore a short black skirt, which revealed long legs that kept on going Her scarlet halter was cut low enough to expose a swell of high firm breasts God, her beauty lit up his head His body followed He craved her

The trail of her scent reached him and struck hard Worenades throughout his suddenly starved body

Breh-hedden ripped through his head

Bonded-mate

In a fraction of a second he slid his h her shield--damn, what power--and finally read her She stu on

She had come to the club because of a series of dreaht She had been in the middle of a call to ascension She’d also coainst a hardelse she wanted

He also read the lustful state of the warriors who had tried and failed to sink her into a seductive thrall He had to get her away frohtened and a maroon haze clouded his vision His aze to hihts flashed erratically in the dark club, and his vision adjusted for every discrepancy The sun ht as well have illuminated her every feature Her cheeks turned a dusky rose, her lips parted, and her breathing grew shallow

Oh, yeah, she liked what she saw

His ain, Come to me, Alison

Much to his shock, she shot back, And who the hell are you to command me?

Damn, she didn’t remember him He wished now he hadn’t sliced herwith her

He lowered his chin and moved with preternatural speed He intended to rescue her from the unwanted attentions of the two males and to claim her for his own But by the time he reached her she had disappeared She had folded fro his forearh he had the capacity to ive pursuit because he couldn’t fold from location to location Goddammit He stood within an ar weakness, sherather than fucking Phoenix One

Unfulfilled need raged through his body He lifted his head and roared at the ceiling, the full-throated cry of a rip of breh-hedden and unable to complete the act

The maroon sheen darkened his eyes further His neurons scra sequence The two Militia Warriors, smaller in stature than any of the Warriors of the Blood, backed away Thorne shot in front of them and shouted, "Fold! Now!"

Kerrick slarabbed air He turned to Thorne and lifted his fists ready to do battle Thorne caught one of his bunched hands in a powerful grip, held on, then folded them both out of the Blood and Bite