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"Was?"

"He’s dead" She tossed the bloodiedtray of supplies closer with her foot "Killed by The Aegis"

"Bastards" He shifted, which ape open a little more Nope, he definitely didn’t wear underwear "What about the rest of your fas?"

"My mother hasn’t been in my life since my brothers and I eaned" Mainly, that was because she’d wanted to kill both Vaughn and Lena to rid the world of two runts who hadn’t thrived and who had needed extra care in their first few months to survive Lena’s father had run her mother off, and she hadn’t seen her since

"How many brothers?"

Lena’s first i ones, but no, she wanted hihn in shreds

"I had three One was killed recently"

His hand cais?" His voice was surprisingly ue-tied But then she re to do with Vaughn’s death, and she casually dislodged his grip

"I’m not sure who is responsible," she said "But when I find out, I’et that," he et to the point where it won’t matter anymore"

"Sounds like you have some experience with that?" she asked, as she reached for the tube of skin glue

His jaw tightened so forcefully she heard the pop of bone "Everyone thinks anger si hotter until you finally release it in some massive explosion"

"Doesn’t it?"

"Absolutely But if you wait too long, all that rage burns out It’ll flame hotter and hotter, until it consu Fire is the ultimate sanitizer" His voice was bleak, scoured of the passion she’d seen in hiaze, she applied the Dermabond to the laceration "Who did you lose?"

Silence stretched, and for a long time, she didn’t think he’d answer When he did, his voice was cold but even "Myher bare again "Are you h "I’m too busy for a social life"

"That’s what people say when they don’t want a social life"

She hated that he’d seen through her She’d always found excuses for not going out with her friends, but what it came down to was that she was defective Who would want a shifter who couldn’t shift and ould solue and tossed it to the cart "I suppose you aren’t too busy for a social life?"

"I’m not too busy I admit I don’t want one My work is my social life"

As if on cue,the very air with a deep bass beat that tugged at Lena’s very insides "So what do you do for fun?" she asked casually, when she suddenly felt anything but

An extres, and her senses flamed in response "I have sex Wanna have so Vladlena squir obnoxious, but he definitely wouldn’t be averse to getting her nad

Which eird, considering that she wasn’t his type, and he had never embraced the any-port-in-a-storm attitude Marsden had made into a lifestyle

"You know," Lena said in a breathless rush, "in a human establishment, I could sue you for sexual harass you"

"You are"

Bullshit The flush of her skin, the heat radiating from her, the pitch of her voiceit all ed the predator in hiive chase to make the kill

Time to pounce

"I can feel your desire" He propped hi his body closer to hers "You wantthe natural conclusion about sooner than later"

Her outraged gasp ant"

He’d take that "And sexy"

Huffing, she shoved the rolling supply tray away "Don’t you have a club to s over the side of the exam table "Technically, I’, reainst the wall before he even realized he’d moved She looked up at him, as surprised as he was by his sudden movement, but he rolled with it, totally I-htly i or a bad one

"If you’re not working, you should be playing," heher He wasn’t going to give her an excuse to push him away

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