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Abruptly her tight knot of fear exploded into sheer rage "I told you to stay back," she snarled, waving the knife in warning

"Please, Angela" He held up his hands "You need to listen tosense of betrayal It didn’t matter that she’d known this man for less than two months Or that he’d never made her any promises

She’d felt aconnection to him

A tenuous hope that he would be the one man to eventually see the woman beneath the aard nerd

God Could she have been more delusional?

"So I can hear more lies, Dr Bartrev?"

His eyes darkened, as if bothered by the harsh edge of accusation in her voice

"My name isn’t a lie," he said "I’m Nikolo Bartrev"

"You’re not a professor"

"No" He took another step forward and Angela shivered as he dropped his pretense of a harers and transfor of his dark, beautiful features The squaring of his broad shoulders that looked even broader beneath the creah the roo "I’m a Sentinel"

She tossed aside the knife It orse than useless considering she was erous predator that watched her with his piercing blue gaze

And he was a predator

She could sense it with every fiber of her being

"I thought Sentinels were uardians are protected by wards"

"But not you?"

"No I’m a hunter I need toblend when necessary"

Her jaw clenched at the painful reminder of his charade

Bastard

"So whathis words Did the high-bloods have a code of silence? She wouldn’t doubt it There was very little inforer and faster than htened senses"

"And it’s your job to track down freaks" She deliberately used the insult

Beneath her overriding fear she ell and truly pissed

Who could bla from the claws used by the creepy Dylan who intended to kidnap her and force her to play the role of Dr Frankenstein And this ant jackass--had treated her like she was nothingto be used and tossed away

He gave a dip of his head "Yes"

"And you always get your aze briefly lowered to the soft curve of her breasts barely visible beneath her sweatshirt

"Or wohtened in instant reaction and she sed a curse The tingling, heart-stopping heat that she’d always savored when near this ly naïve she’d been

"No ers through the short strands of his hair

"Dylan killed two Sentinels to escape Valhalla, then twelve norms to try and draw us froela grimaced Fourteen people murdered? Okay Obviously the psycho killer had to be captured

But that didn’t make it any easier to know she’d been used as bait

"How did you know she would be coed "You’re the only one who has the talent to alter her appearance"

She was shaking her head before he finished speaking

Da to make her believe she was a freak?

Did they think it would make her more sympathetic to their cause?

"Not In The Mood"

"Fine" Perhaps sensing she was on the verge of a o now"

"We?" Sheanywhere with you"

A rimly held on to his te to stop hunting you Not until she’s dead" He deliberately paused "Or you are"

"I’ll takeher upper arms firmly before she even realized he’dwhen he said he was faster "You won’t"