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"The fucking scenery isn’t that interesting," she burst out as he stared out the"Did you know about this? Did my fathers?"

Shayne turned to look at her and cleared his throat "It’s a rule All members have to be inforiven, nor the location of where you’re staying Si on the property and that your protection is assured by the club That " He stared directly at her then "And we take it very seriously

"Well, bully the hell for you and your club members!" she sneered "But you can count me out I do believe I have other plans"

"And those plans are?" Khalid wasn’t happy, but at the ive a damn She couldn’t believe he would dare atteot to run around having fun catching terrorists It wasn’t going to work out like that

"Anger Thornton is hosting a party in two nights," she informed them both as she sat back and crossed her arms over her breasts "I’m scheduled to be there, as are the rest of the very powerful and elite here in DC There’s enough gossip at those parties that if a person catches the right whispers, theyon"

"We attend the party and do what?" Shayne asked "We have no idea who to watch, question, or kill You’re reaching Marty"

"As long as I hide, Ayid and Aman will never show their faces or their intentions," she snapped back at hihtened, that we intend to fight back, and you’ll piss them off You’ll make them move"

"And risk your life?" Khalid said as he leaned forward and all but shoved his nose against hers "I don’t think so"

Marty watched Khalid It wouldn’t ithout his cooperation, without his help He would have to be there with her as well as Shayne to present the correct ie and to incite the brothers who hated him so desperately

"I don’t need your permission," she stated coolly "Don’t make this mistake, Khalid You can ith me I can even follow your lead But I’ to be content to sit in some base fun catching the bad guys"

"I can’t believe she’s pissed off because she thinks we’re going to have fun!" Shayne said

"Call it what you will" She shrugged negligently as Khalid leaned back slowly "Either way, you can ith er’s party is perfect for this There’s always a fair nuuys gossip worse than any other lared back She wasn’t backing down She wasn’t going to hide and play dead and hope theh her at his slow nod "Under the right circureed "And with your fathers’ supervision"

She wanted to roll her eyes at the thought, but a part of her also agreed with him Her fathers could ensure her safety as well as lay a trap that could catch anyone who ht the assassin, if his brothers were in the States, then the mole would be revealed, it was that simple Khalid’s sexual lifestyle was a sore point with the royal fa he was distantly related to them, she knew Their faith didn’t allow for the extremities which Khalid had e the security we need as well as any extra surveillance to watch for your brothers and their assassin," she said "It could be the chance we need to put an end to this"

"If they take the bait," Khalid pointed out, his voice, his expression dark and brooding now

"We’re the bait," she told him "The very fact sogestion stands," Shayne drawled, his tone dangerously lo "So the world a favor if Ayid and Aree, froh, it was a harder call

Khalid siaze reht, like white-hot fla in tiny pinpoints with the raw eh hiain "If you have to risk your life in such a way, then I’ll at least have what you’re willing to give me for now"

Marty restrained an instinctive flinch at the harsh tone of his voice But she couldn’t deny hier he faced, that he had facedslowly she closed the distance between the him to draw her into his arms

The second he did so, she er and struck a spark to the flames of arousal that simmered, ever present, within her

The intih he needed to hold her, to cushion her against his chest to assure himself that she was safe, that she was his to touch

And he intended to touch her

Tipping her head back, he didn’t ask for perer she could be facing spurred the need he felt for her, his lips and tongue took hers with a hunger that burned through her

Holding her to hi her closer to him, Khalid ate at her lips, licked at the h her now that she was in his ares Centuries It had been too da It had been since this afternoon, and as far as she was concerned, that was a lifetio

As he kissed her, as his hands roved over her back, her hips, she felt the touch of another’s hands at her thighs

Shayne

It wasn’t a shock; it was an addition to the pleasure, a sensual, erotic enticeher, hotter

"I’ve wondered who held your heart" Shayne’s voice was a caress against her senses as Khalid’s lips stroked from hers to her jaw, her neck "Then I wondered if I had a chance at being his third"

Fingers pulled her blouse from her jeans; she didn’t knohose, she didn’t care All that mattered was the touch, the pleasure, and Khalid