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"She’s a queen bitch," Myka said, approaching "Great cutting horse in the ring, when it counts, but when she knows it’s just practice, she’s a devil She’s put lanced at Myka, disaze back to Spike Her eyes ider than usual, her nostrils flaring as she took in his Shifter scent

Spike looked hu her she should be worried Or should she? Hu her, or telling her how good she was

Spike growled The sound was soft but floated across the corral to the pricked ears of the ed hite She whirled around, kicking dirt behind her, and ran the few yards to gelding’s corner to try to hide behind hihed "Karave the horses one last growl and led Myka to her truck

As Myka drove back to Shiftertown, Spike listened to her tale of the htly, but her distress ca of her lips and eyes, the change in her scent

The stables were important to her--they were her territory, Spike sensed, more than her little house was Her house here she slept and kept her stuff The stables were her life

Good thing Spike would be able to do so about that

When they reached Shiftertown, a car that had been dogging them ever since the stables abruptly pulled around them and raced off

Damn it to hell "Follow hias The Shifter was good, though He darted through traffic and swung onto the busy Airport Boulevard, heading into town and toward the I-35

"Forget it," Spike said "Back to Shiftertown"

Myka took the next turn and went around the block withoutback the way they’d coripped the wheel with tight, white-knuckled hands "He’s really serious"

"He’s screwed Drop hting blood He needed action, to kill, to protect, and he needed it now

Myka asked no questions but drove to the house, following his directions She understood why he was pissed off, and through his rage, Spike knew that he’d been right about her being the mate for him

The Morrissey house tee after Katriona, Ki left for her office Sean and Andrea were in the kitchen cleaning up fro up while Andrea rested her pregnant body on a chair and gave hi sofa on the back porch, watching Connor set up blocks in the grass for Katriona to knock over

Lia up Connor too looked up, tensing, glancing behind Spike to Myka

"Spike," Lia to you"