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Evangeline looked up, saw the look on Tilanced at Alonzo His eyesshe thought he didn't feel a single emotion, and he hadn't--until he'd walked into the bakery all those o and met her Hurt flashed in her eyes for a brief moment and then she turned her entire attention on Timur

Her shtly to the side and tendrils of her thick, glossy hair curled around her face giving her a sexy, take-me-to-bed kind of look Alonzo wanted to pound his brother into the ground

"What can I get for you?"

Her voice Sin and sex Alonzo tried not to listen Tried not to hear or look as his brother ordered and she et Timur's drink for him He couldn't help but watch the sway of her hips She earing soft blue jeans Nothing special, but they cupped her ass in a way that made his palms itch He needed to run his hands possessively over her curves Claied to hi into the bakery She half turned toward Timur when he told her what he wanted from the display case The movement pulled the thin material of her black-and-white sweater across her full breasts There was no hiding the fact that she had curves, the kind aAll the fuck his

It took every ounce of discipline he possessed to stay in his seat and watch his brother engage her in conversation when she handed him his coffee and reached into the case for his macaroons

"I'm Timur, Timur Amurov And you are?" Timur lifted the drink to his mouth and sipped cautiously

Alonzo watched hiet the look on his face that most of her customers did The woman kne to make coffee and drinks On the other hand, she knew his brother's real naht of him as Alonzo, an Italian He was Fyodor Amurov, from Russia He was an A rare shifters It also made him a member of the bratya In fact, he was from one of the acy was one of blood and death Of patricide Of mass murder

"I'eline It's nice to meet you"

Her voice went right through hi cock until he thought he ht scream with need All the while his leopard purred Rubbed Needed like he needed Alonzo's breath stilled in his body His leopard only needed one thing--to hunt He lived for the hunt He loved the freedoeline He looked at her amorously That was new

"Your last name?" Timur pushed as he took the plate of macaroons

Alonzo heard her heart accelerate He caught the jerk of Gorya's body as he heard it as well Ti

Evangeline turned her head toward Alonzo "Don't," she said softly

She knew Ti inforation, but, incorrectly, that Alonzo had ordered him to do so His woman had secrets

"Don't what?" Tientled "I' for your last name"

She didn't obey hi at Alonzo "I haven't pried I haven't done one thing to give you cause to do this"

The bell over the door tinkled and Ti inside his coat Three men entered They were in their thirties and all three looked carefully around, noting Alonzo first, then Gorya and Tied them as undercover cops They were dressed in casual clothes, jeans and tees stretched tight over muscles Tattoos down their arms One had a short beard and mustache One just the mustache The third man hadn't shaved in a couple of days

Tieline and took his coffee and the plate of cookies in one hand, keeping his other hand free Of course they had concealed weapon per was aboveboard should they ever be stopped for any reason He didn't want that reason to happen there in the bakery Not with his wo

Tirinned at hi My leopard definitely was soothed, but not interested There's a difference Clearly she's a leopard whisperer When you're close to her, you feel peace Sounds crazy, but I felt it too" He kept his eyes on the cops without appearing to do so

"Don't get too used to being close to her," Alonzo warned Icicles dripped from his voice

Tirinned wider "It's not me you have to worry about,us And she clearly knows the it isn't all about her badass coffee"

"Brice, good to see you Your usual?"

She sounded like sex and sin to Alonzo every time she opened her mouth His body was as hard as a rock His mind was filled with a million ways to kill the newcoe at the idea of the three men so close to as so clearly theirs

"You bet, sweetheart"

"Sweetheart"? What the fuck was that? It was all Alonzo could do not to leap up and kill the son of a bitch

"Reeve, Crispin? The usual?"

Both undercover cops nodded, s at Alonzo They turned their bodies slightly, just enough to be able to watch Alonzo, Gorya and Tieline

"You ever going to go out withone elbow on the counter to put his chin in his pal ass

Alonzo's leopard lifted its head and snarled Alonzo wanted to do the sa he wanted was for anyone--let alone the cops--to knoas interested in Evangeline On the other hand, if she said yes, he was going to follow the fucker right out of the bakery and ain

Evangeline's gaze shifted to his for just a moment, to read his reaction no doubt He should have stayed frozen He should have kept all emotion out of it That hat kept hihtest shake of his head He had to warn her He had to keep asBrice wasn't in the cards for her Six o But he'd walked back into the bakery and she didn't have a ht not realize that hat she'd done, but she belonged to him and Brice had lost his shot

Evangeline shook her head, her s over her shoulder as she made a drink at the , Brice, and I y, nagging witch and drive you nuts"

"It would be worth it, sweetheart," Brice said, his eyes on her butt, lovingly encased in those tight jeans

Alonzo wanted to take out his gun and shoot the bastard The ed to him

She laughed and set their coffees on the bar in to-go cups Their pastries went into s They'd probably wait around to follow Alonzo and his bodyguards later, but it wouldn't get the They wouldn't want to blow their covers and in a way, that protected Alonzo

"Throwto be giving ain" He jerked his thurinned like idiots

Alonzo wasn't deceived Neither were his two bodyguards They watched without looking, so they'd perfected from the time they were infants and had had to keep an eye on their fathers and older brothers Their leopards never failed them

"A cruerous," she teased

Her voice didn't have to be so dah of a crumb for the cop to return He consoled hi about

his identity to her

Brice reached across the counter and caught her by the nape of the neck, drawing her close Everything in Alonzo went still Ice flowed through his veins The brutal, vicious killer in hied with the man trained froraceful to knock over the table Timur put a hand on his arm to try to stop hione Heat banded across his eyes, showing hies He could kill all three in seconds One leap and he'd be on them

As all three cops turned at his eline took the opportunity to free herself Immediately she set up, I can bring it to you"

That sense of peace she created with her voice, with her calm, instantly overrode the roar of his leopard, the thunder of his blood pounding with the need to remove every threat to his claim on his woman His leopard backed off as she reached casually for the coffeepot, already out of reach of the three cops He didn't ever ask for fancy coffee He liked her natural brew and he took it black In that rateful he did He forced his body back into the chair, sinking down, breathing deeply, watching her the entire time so his cat could see that no one else touched her