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Myka had known Spike fewer than twenty-four hours, and she already was rearranging her ideas about hiht she’d been torn betorry that he wouldn’t want Jordan at all and fear that he’d become so crazed about him he’d turn into a man like her stepfather

Myka stepfather, after her mother’s death, had used the si it out on Myka He’d both wanted Myka around as a reminder of herher there as a reminder of what he’d lost Myka had needed soical person had only hurt her and made her to live in fear and misery

Spike wasn’t the sah the situations were siical father, and he’d never known Jillian except for that fleeting night His focus in all this was Jordan, and Jordan alone

"Is this thing you need to do going to get Lia darkness sunk the living roohts His eyes had flicked to Shifter, glowing golden in the dark He put his hands on her shoulders "Stay until I get back?"

"Which will be when?"

"Two, ht But I really have to get to the stables to sold out froh he didn’t realize Myka rip on her shoulders

He was going to kiss her again She should mind, she should spin away so he couldn’t

She didn’t Spike didn’t kiss her either He pulled her against hi his arms around her in a war his touch Comfort leached from his arms around her, and he rested his cheek on her head She slid her hands around his waist, finding the s it a little caress, the e, war away, opened the door into the growing autuone

Gavan met Spike in a coffee shop on the south side of Austin, one that let in Shifters It was an old-fashioned coffee shop with a long row of booths, food that hadn’t been upscaled to death, and coffee that was plain and black, though the place had conceded to put in a lattehis coffee in salute

"News gets around"

"In Shiftertowns? Are you kidding ht to Liam and rat me out"