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He wasn’t a virgin - not even close But the impersonal encounters he preferred to seek out never involved touching or e

In that moment, Jordana Gates couldn’t have shocked him more if she’d pulled his 9-mm out of its holster on his hip and shot him point blank in the chest

So er alone in the roo his throat soed from Jordana’s hold on him and put a healthy distance between the the Caribbean azure of her gaze before the kiss to a storht her hand up to herto the safety of her friend’s side in the living room adjacent to the vestibule

Beautiful, cultured Carys Chase stood there beside swarthy, dangerous Rune, her fingers linked through his "Are you all right, Jordana?" she whispered Then, to Nathan, with no gentleness in her voice at all: "Why did you come here? Why the hell did you just assault Jordana? Tellon!"

The other Breedmate shook her pale blond head,his voice for a second He leveled a cold look on Rune "That’s what I’ve co on?"

Rune held his stare, his dark eyes unflinching "Just visiting friends on a rare night off froainst that"

"Make no mistake, you and I will talk later about what you think you’re doing with this fe "We’ll talk too" To which her chin went up a notch, iht now, I’ht at the club," he said to Rune

The Breed fighter got a strange look on his face, but it lasted only a fraction of a second before he shuttered it with a mask of indifference "Don’t have any idea what you mean"

"That’s not what Cassian just told o when I was there," Nathan countered "He said you had a visit from a rebel piece of shit called Bowman"

Now Rune chuckled, and froenuine "You’ve been a with rebels And I don’t know anyone by that name"

"Really? Cassian told ht with Mira" Rune’s expression seemed to turn a bit stonier now "Cassian says you spoke with the room"

"That’s a lie," Carys interjected, her caraave a vehement shake of her head "Rune didn’t have anyone in his dressing roohtexcept for me"

Nathan’s curse drifted from between his flatly pressed lips His dishtly less than what it would be for Carys’s parents or her twin brother "Obviously, soht now," Nathan said "And I’ll warn you all just once that I do not have ti Alot some trouble on their hands"

"Did you or did you not see Boith Mira last night?" he asked the fighter "If you know anything about what he’s doing with her, I need to know Her life could depend on it"

Carys clutched Rune’s hand a bit tighter, Nathan noticed But Rune gave nothing away in his face "Sorry I can’t help"

"Sorry" Nathan snarled the word "I can make you sorry"

Maybe that’s what the bastard needed Nathan took a pace forward, and couldn’t help noticing that Rune stayed put Didn’t matter, because in that next second, both women stepped in to put theht now," Carys cried She spun toward Rune "Both of you, stop this!"

Nathan couldn’t take his eyes off Jordana but saw in his peripheral vision when Rune gently stroked Carys’s cheek

Nathan hated that he’d likely end up hurting her tender heart in the next few minutes, when he and her apparent more-than-unlikely boyfriend took their unfriendly discussion into a physical one

As he considered doing just that, his comm unit buzzed in his pants pocket He took it out, saw the caller was Eli, one of his teammates in Boston Before Nathan could even ask for an update, Eli blurted out the news Nathan had been ready to kill tonight to have

"We got a bead on Bowman"

"Where?" Nathan deht of this crucial intel

"Tip turned up on a ruun runner sold Vince a dozen seot a look at Bowman or anyone else, but the lead on the possible base seereed," Nathan said "Where are you at?" Eli rattled off the team’s location in the city "Okay Rafe and I will be there in less than five ht, let the in on New Bedford, no delay"

"Got it, Captain"

They cut the call and Nathan leveled one last look on the cage-fighting killer as he shoved his co happens to Mira because you wouldn’t talk, I willhappens to this female"

Rune’s dark eyes narrowed at the threat "I would lay down my life for Carys"

Nathan scoffed, well aware of the Breed"She’s worth ten of you, and you know it"

"Aye," Rune agreed, the first indicator of the accent he usually kept etic "That I do knoarrior"

With Jordana Gates staring at hi in the ht to Rune’s large, battle-scarred hand, Nathan wheeled around and exited the penthouse

On the way back down to the lobby to get Rafe, Nathan had to concentrate on his training in order to bring his senses back to a state of cold purpose

He strode out of the elevator on the ground floor, and beckoned his teammate over with a curt motion of his hand He filled Rafe in on the new development, then the pair of warriors headed out, ready to deal a lot of pain and death to Bowman and his rebel followers