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Alarnored the warning Regan had been setting off alarht of her Instead, he slowed before the cheap chain an frowned as he headed toward the far end of the building "What are we doing here?"

"This is the nearest shower"

"We’re checking into a hotel?"

"Tonight I prefer to skip the paperwork The desk clerk is no doubt busy sharpening his skills at Guitar Hero"

"Christ, what is it with you?"

"What?"

She regarded him with a sour expression "One minute you sound like you just crawled out of a medieval crypt and the next, you sound like you’re a full-fledged member of Gen X"

He shrugged, hiding his smile at her fierce need to keep him at a distance And people called hiuess You’re addicted to Dexter"

"Actually I prefer Gossip Girl"

Her jaw dropped "You’ve got to be kidding"

Hehis hand against the door, Jagr waited until he heard the click of the lock and pressed it open Standing aside, he waited for Regan tothe door, he held the bags toward the oht until you’ve closed the bathroom door We don’t want to alarm the staff"

She inched forward, clearly suspicious of his oing to be doing?"

"Keeping guard" His brief amusement faded as the jaser that sht of her naked in the shoith only a fli through the air andhis voice thick "Unless you have need of an backed toward the open door across the roor didn’tof her eyes or the rapid beat of her pulse He pushed froh his blood

"My assistance would save tiaze swept down the delicate curves "Or your front, if you prefer"

"Not even in your drea to be in his dreahts

Or centuries

"You did say you were in a hurry to get on the trail of Culligan"

"Ha Do I look stupid?"

The sweet, enticing scent of her arousal perfur didn’t h her emerald eyes She desired him, but she feared that desire as e

Da hioing to bolt He sensed it as clearly as if she’d tattooed it across her forehead

"You look like a woh to assume everyone is your eneer firmly leashed "I will not hurt you"

She sed heavily, then predictably channeled her unease into anger

"Because precious Darcy would be ht Just keep watch, Hulkster," she growled, her wolf prowling beneath her skin "And don’t you dare come anywhere near this door"

The door in question was slar ree of Regan stripping off her clothes and stepping beneath the pelting water wasn’t searing through his brain Then, confident she was actually taking the opportunity to bathe, he slowly backed out of the roohborhood toout of the ordinary, he slipped to the back of the building and pressed hiainst the worn bricks

Nearly half an hour passed when thenext to his were tossed onto the pavean couldn’t leave behind her new clothes, even in her desperation to escape hihtened and turned, waiting for Regan to swing her legs (attired in a new pair of jeans), through theWith a motion so fast not even a Were could follow, he scooped her off the ledge

"The , Regan?" he ht you would be ave a squeak and then a shriek as he easily tossed her over his shoulder and headed swiftly back toward the cave