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I’ quite as tan as he’d been when he first sauntered into the bar He was braced against the woman, Catalina, and she didn’t so much as buckle beneath his six-foot-plus fra out the waters for you…hunter"
Erin sed "Don’t ever do that again"
Slowly, very, very slowly, he lifted his arm from Catalina’s shoulders "Don’t…worry Won’t"
"No, you won’t" Jude’s fierce voice
"Just wanted to see…what you were"
Her cheeks flushed Not with fury--that would have been good Humiliation What I aht he knew, and that guy was a sadistic freak
No, I’m not like him I won’t ever be
She hoped, anyway Because with her uarantees that she wouldn’t go bad one day
"Not demon" Zane’s eyes were on hers now, his head up She held that stare, refusing to look away Erin wasn’t really sure what had happened to the guy Okay, what she’d done to him She’d acted on instinct when she felt the probe in her hts--
So she’d shoved right back
Instinct
Her lip curled Deht she was like him? "No, I’ back to his hunter friends and told them about her secrets?
Can’t trust anyone She knew that
So why did it feel like she’d just been punched?
Erin straightened her shoulders "If this little game or test or whatever the hell it was has finished, I’ll call the cops and get out of here" The sooner, the better
"Erin" A rumble from Jude Dark and intense
Damn him Her eyes narrowed "I told you what I am You didn’t need to have your friend attack me"
Then, because her claere ale had her heart racing, Erin marched for the door She’d call for backup once she was outside That’s what cell phones were for--screwa call from the bar
The demon and the witch very wisely sidled out of her way
But Jude grabbed her arainst his chest
Too close Her nostrils widened and she caught his heady scent No, no, no
"This wasn’t my plan"
"Wasn’t it?" Because she didn’t believe him, not for a minute He’d wanted to know He’d said it hiht the plan was to go to the courthouse Asshole He hadn’t trusted her
Granted, she hadn’t trusted hinore that point, for now
"You just told ht "You never said what your father was"
She jerked away from him Too easy, that "He was a man, Jude Just a man" With psychic powers, sure But her father had been all too hulare at her hunter, she shoved open the glass door and strode into the harsh sunlight
Silence One minute Two
Catalina cleared her throat and pointed to the destruction that was her bar "Night Watch is going to be paying for that Tell Pak I don’t want a check this tiers trailed down Zane’s cheek "Never gonna learn, are you?" Then she eased away frolared at the bastard
Zane winced and lifted a hand to his head "Uh, soirlfriend just tried to fry ood idea He should stay in--
"And talk about being ungrateful Where’s ot in her head enough to know she’s hurabbed the demon and lifted him a foot in the air "You hurt her"
Zane’s eyes widened even as they flashed black "I’ in his head"
"Don’t ever hurt her again, got ether "A look--you told lauised others of their kind, unless you were dealing with a level ten Nothing and no one could penetrate a level ten powerhouse’s veil
The faint lines around Zane’s eyes tightened "I was takin’ a look A real long, deep look into your girl"
Yeah, and judging from the way she’d looked at Jude before she’d storht he’d set her up
And didn’t I?
Aw, hell
He dropped the deile asshole landed easily "Why’d your look hurt her?" He’d seen Zane work hu to them Zane’s psychic skills, his ability to ferret out secrets, were part of the reason why their cases broke so quickly
When the two of theood teaain
Zane’s shoulders lifted, then fell "Don’t know" His lips thinned "Never happened quite like…that before" He exhaled
"That lady packs one hell of a psychic punch"
Physically stronger, psychically stronger No as she a weak hybrid
Shifting abilities or not
"There is soroan fro Mickey--broke across Zane’s words
Jude glanced down at the shifter, frowning
"I didn’t get deep in her mind," Zane said "She blocked me before I could, but, hell, it was dark in there, man"
Jude’s eyes rose to the demon once more