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It had been one hell of a long ride from Colorado to central Texas, but Andrea had had to take the bus, because Shifters weren’t allowed on airplanes, nor were they allowed to drive cross-country Glory had brought Sean with her when she’d picked up Andrea from the station Tall, hard-bodied, and black-haired, Sean had been dressed in jeans and a button-down shirt, ainst the February cold Andrea had assumed him to be Glory’s latest conquest until Glory introduced him Sean had looked down at Andrea, his hard-ass, blue-eyed stare peeling away the layers she’d built between herself and the world

She re, I wonder if he’s black-haired all the way down?

Sean, being the alpha he was, had sensed her distress and exhaustion and pulled her into his ar she needed his touch He’d smelled of leather, maleness, sweat, and cold February air, and Andrea had wanted to curl up in a little ball against hiht now," Sean had ainst her hair "I’ for her explanation The daave him one

"I wasn’t allowed to talk about it in Colorado," Andrea said "The Shiftertown leader gave my stepfather per people how I healed theht I was using Fae ic on them"

"That’s a point," Sean conceded "But we’re not as easily, as you say, freaked, around here You should have told me, or Glory at least"

Andrea put one hand on her hip "My life as a half-breed illegitimate orphan hasn’t exactly been pleasant, you know I’ve learned to keep things to ht we’d treat you the same, did you, love?"

Da her love? And why did it sizzle fire all the way through her? This was crazy He was a Feline If Sean Morrissey knew little about her, Andrea knew still less about hiain stepping into her space, a do to ht that not all Shifters are coic, but ift, and ht too"

"Fine," Andrea said, as though it ain deliberately turning her back on hio help clean up out there Does the bar get shot up often? I should get hazardous duty pay"

"Andrea"

He was right behind her, his warmth like sunshine on her back Andrea stopped with her hand on the doorknob Sean rested his pal her in She remembered the feel of hi

"Glory says so you bad I want you to tell me about it"

Andrea shivered Damn Glory, damn Sean, and no, she didn’t want to talk about it

"Not now Can we go?"

"It’s my job to listen to troubles," he said, breath hot in her ear "Whether I’m your ue felt loose, her pent-up e to spill out to this man and his warm voice She cla, "Is it about the nighththt have heard her crying out in her sleep The nightmares had started a week after she’d moved in with Glory, when they’d risen in her head like a many-tentacledthem; she only knew they scared the hell out of her "How do you know about htmares?"

"Because "

The thought of Sean sitting in his bedroo over her while she slept,to tell When I wake up, I can’t rees that flashed through her head meant, but they terrified her "I really don’t want to talk about it right now," she said "All right?"

Sean ran a soothing hand down her arht, love You let ood and ready"

Froainst her backside, Sean was good and ready now One part of him had definitely shifted

Andrea deliberately leaned on the door and pressed back into hihtht she’d be afraid of Sean, turned off, ready to run Instead, Sean made her feel, for the first time in yearsplayful

"So, tellher voice to a purr "Is that where you carry your sword, or are you just happy to see nite the ht into Sean’s groin, her wriggle of hips teasing his hard-on for all she orth She s Fae scent couldn’t change the sensory goodness that was Andrea