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"If I can’t fight off a pack of puppies, I deserve to bite it"
"And Syre would come down on me in a swarm of vamps How much shit am I expected to have shoveled on me?"
That knocked her back a bit She looked at the queen-sized airit with hiroaned softly as Sarah s faster if he was eating properly, but he was quickly beco undernourished on the sparse a wil happen that you don’t want"
"I don’t want anything besides you keeping your end of our agreeot no worries Why don’t you show me those property specs youin her bag She set it down on the ground afrorip She looked at Sarah, as tying off a bandage "Are you done yet?"
Sarah’s gaze searched Elijah’s face for instruction
He dismissed her with an easy, "Thank you, Sarah"
The lycan closed the first-aid kit and said, "I’l get you some dinner, Alpha Esther made an awesome venison stew"
"I appreciate that" Ideal y, they’d each be eating their own deer, but they weren’t in a position to dine wel under the circu everyone, which kept them alive Barely
"Also…" She offered a tiements to send some of us out with the vampires"
"Aw," Vash crooned with syrupy sweetness "Puppy love How touching"
Sarah rose to her feet with graceful dignity, but the look she shot Vashti was poisonous, a rare display of hatred fro out," Elijah answered, his decision taking into account her innate O others She’d be best utilized in a support position, rather than on a hunt
"Thank you, Alpha" She left the roo to his feet, he rol ed his shoulders back, feeling better already He felt Vash’s gaze slide over hilanced at her with an arched brow
"Wil you put some damn clothes on?" she snapped
"Why don’t you take yours off?"
She bared her fangs "In your wet dreaed "Worth a shot"
CHAPTER 5
They were on the road before dawn and across the Utah/Nevada border beforewheel and tried not to think about the restless night behind her Elijah, da, which saidthat he didn’t consider her a threat at al
She’d tried to work There was so much to be done But she’d been distracted by the way he had stretched out next to her with one ar off beautiful y defined biceps And the way the sheet had clung tantalizingly low on his hips…A tiny tug would have revealed al of his impressive assets
Vash loved a healthy man’s body as much as the next woman, but Elijah’s was a work of art, his powerful fraes of ue and hands and-- "These are al warehouses," Elijah s she’d printed out
"Warehouses with plenty of parking, room for a helipad, top-of-the-line electrical systelanced at hiet when you’re overheated"
"It’s not easy being furry"
It took aout the windshield, she felt her lips curve He was feeling more himself, it seemed, and she was relieved His pain yesterday had moved her, made her see him in a far rief proved his strength of character in many ways--he’d taken an action he kneould cost hihness and his wil ingness to shed tears without shame
"These properties are expensive," he said bluntly "Syre’sa hel of an investment in an al iance that hasn’t been tested"
"I’l kil you if you double-cross me Stake your head on a pike for other lycans to see"
"You’re expecting me to screw you over"
"Your breed’s track record isn’t so hot Your ancestors ditched us for Adrian to save their hides and you just ditched Adrian, once again to save your ass"
His gaze seared her profile "You’re skipping over e lycan lifespan being two hundred and thirty years, there’s not a single lycan in existence who’s been touched by what happened to the Watchers Most of theel they’re descended from"
Yet the memory of her fal was as fresh to her as if it had occurred et an obligation, it doesn’t count?"
"Not what Ipromisesborn"
"Your great-great-grandwolfies made that decision for you A shame you can’t ask theue "I expected fidelity froels who served besidethey’d be honorable for lying in them"
"I was told the Fal en who became lycans hadn’t broken the laws the rest of you did," Elijah said
Vash shot hilance and became even ht that after seeing how i deal But he ed jeans and plain black T-shirt look stunning He was a big, brawny hunk of a th and force of wil in a way very few reedy touch of a passionate man’s hands His hands The hands she’d watched stroke over his bare skin in deliberate provocation
Of course, she wasn’t even sure she remembered how to have sex anymore… She looked away "That’s a cop-out We al lost our way in so and reporting Any sort of contact with , hearing, touching, teaching But ere scholars We thirsted for knowledge, the giving and receiving of it We couldn’t resist the desire to interact"
He tucked the property spec sheets back in the file "But you didn’t Not like the others did"