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He was broad, but not quite as tall as one ht expect for the Council’s enforcer At six feet tall, it didn’t seem to matter Most people were scared of him Or cautious With a shaved head and a vicious scar that crisscrossed his left eye, he knehat he looked like He’d never be called handso Which was one of the reasons the crowd autoht he was a thug
Everyone except Katarina She’d seen right through him the instant they’d ift to spot supernatural beings on sight She was a seer, just like her mother had been She hadn’t known he was the enforcer, but she had known he was a shifter A lupine shifter She’d been very specific about that too She’d told him she could see his wolf perfectly and then she’d had the nerve to tell hi more than a harmless puppy
In all his years people rarely surprised him And women never surprised him Until he’d met Kat She’d shown no fear when he’d told her all the dirty things he wanted to do to her He’d intentionally spoken to her crassly, as if she were a coent, beautiful woet the hell away frootten under his skin in the worst way and no nored hi the shit out of him like he deserved
By chance he’dher father’s estate for sos Some members of the Council had wanted him to buy weapons from Dimitri Saburova, her father and one of the most connected weapons dealers on the East Coast After that first encounter with her he’d gone out of his way to see her any chance he could It had taken half a year, but in betorking various jobs around the country, he’d finally worn her down and she’d agreed to one date with him
A lunch date
But that’s all it had taken Some days he wondered what the hell she ever saw in hiue it was painful
He’d been screwed up ever since she’d left hi to see her Had to see her It had nothing to do with the Council ordering hi-Cordona pack after all their recent troubles And it had nothing to do with hi on a mission to sniff out members of the APL He snorted at the acrony nae, fake tits smiled drunkenly at him, but when he bared his teeth, she jerked in surprise and turned back to her friends
He couldn’t see Kat yet, but he could smell her In a crowd of a thousand he’d be able to pick her out She smelled like roses It was subtle, classic, and didn’t fit her personality at all But that’s what her scent was If he even got a whiff of the stupid flower, visions of her overtook him Not that he needed to s thought since she’d gone He’d even tried to fuck other women, but he couldn’t His cock wouldn’t obey hi refused to listen It wanted Kat and only Kat, and after eight months of celibacy, he was horny as hell and desperate to see her again
When the crowd shifted to the left, he saw her sitting on a bar stool talking to a short, cute redhead and--holy shit, Lia Hadn’t seen that tall bastard in a few years
Liam kneas there Had probably known since he walked in Jayce should have scented hi else had penetrated his thick skull He cursed himself Whenever she was near, he was distracted And that could get him killed if he wasn’t careful
Liah the crowd The move was casual, but the tall wolf shifted his position and stood so that he was half blocking both wo his view of Kat, but histhe females Most males, even hardened warriors, were scared of Jayce A trickle of unease rolled off Lia-his-pants afraid like so ht if need be Jayce wouldn’t adone up in his opinion
Kat still hadn’t noticed hie of the sh away fro hinored the other wolf for the moment He hit speed dial one, then waited and watched
Kat laughed at so on the bar She fished out her phone When she spotted his nulared at the phone, then tossed it back into her purse The redhead asked so, but Kat just shook her head and waved a disers of hers Fingers that had raked over every inch of him
It shouldn’t et froht reject him pierced him worse than any injury he’d suffered in battle
Kat tucked a strand of her long, dark hair behind her ear and nodded at the redhead For a lance flicked away and that’s when she spotted him He pushed away from the table and didn’t pause in his determined stride
For a fraction of a second her eyes widened in shock, but just as quickly she glared at him She jumped off her bar stool, elbowed Lia well-manicured hands on jean-clad hips, she covered the last few feet between theet her attention
"What the hell are you doing here?" Those pale blue eyes of hers held hirily and his entire body went on red alert He loved it when she looked at him like that Maybe he was er usually translated to heat in the bedrooht to breathe until she punched her finger in the