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he said with a shrug as if that explained it all

It really didn’t

"Uht?"

He tossed her sneakers at her feet "Yeah, but uzzle it down like it’s water"

"Why?"

"Why do they drink it?" he asked, holstering a gun in the back of his pants "Because it’s like a drug for the and unfortunately pretty stupid

They’re great trackers, but they fking suck as mercenaries They usually ith other de to have to be really careful as we leave," he said, tossing his bag over his shoulder and handing her, her bag It felt lighter than before, but that was probably because Chris had shoved rabbed her hand and gave her a slight pull towards the door "We have to hurry Whatever you do don’t leavenervously

"It will be okay, Munchkin," he said, leaning down to brush his lips against hers "We’ll be out of here before you know it," he said with a sexy wink that helped calm her nerves, so to be that simple

Chapter 34

Where the fk was she?

He looked at the chaos around hiuests as they shoved and pushed each other out of the way as they scraet to the stairwell

"Izzy!" he yelled over the screa sound of the fire alarh the damn smoke

Those dumb fks had set the hotel on fire Anyone else would have just set off the fire alarm and watched and waited as everyone evacuated the hotel, but not Djaeho demons That plan would have been too elaborate for them They liked to stick to simple plans, very simple plans and whatever shifter they’d tea their eyes off the dumb bastards

"Chris!" he heard the faint screaeneral idea of what direction she was in He shoved his way through the crowd as he made his way to the opposite end of the hallway

"Izzy!"

"Chris!" she screamed much louder this ti by a hotel door

"Chris, get them off of me!" she screamed from what sounded like next room

Heit down There could have been twenty ar behind the door ready to kill hiet to his mate

The door crashed open and he cae Djaeho de her? Yes, they were definitely sniffing her

"This can’t be her," the lued to Izzy’s sto about her being pregnant and this one is This isn’t her"

Chris ignored Izzy’s little startled gasp as he slowly reached for his gun Silver bullets wouldn’t kill any of thee to confuse them for a while

"Release my mate," he said evenly as he took ai Izzy’s wrist frowned "He didn’t say anything about a mate"