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“Then don’t do this,” he snarled, his canines flashing as his lips pulled back from his teeth furiously “Give this up, Diane, and let the Bureau’s Enforcers track her down instead”

“It would killlocked away, unable to be me, would make me hate you, Lawe I would hate you and any Breed I ever caain”

She had fought too long, endured too much Her freedom, her existence and the reason she followed in her parents’ and in her uncle’s footsteps and folloas too deeply ingrained inside her

“Why?” Fury, pain, they raged inside hi to erupt

“Because I won’t be powerless again,” she whispered “When my parents died I was just that, Lawe I was powerless When my parents’ murderers beat my uncle to our home, Rachel and I were alone with our babysitter” She shuddered, the h her with a force that never eased “I didn’t watch my mother die, but I heard the screams of the person Rachel and I considered more than just a babysitter Uncle Colt’s fiancée died swearing to them eren’t there while I ran with Rachel and hid I had to listen to her screa she could do to protect us because no one, no one,” she cried out furiously, “had taught her how to fight How to survive And if you lock me away, then every ti ely, I will blame you!”

Because her parents had fought for the Breeds Her uncle had fought for them And the secret they had all died to keep was still one Diane knew had to be preserved She had infor she knew that Leo feared she would reveal each tiaze

She didn’t expect her answer to cause such a reaction in Lawe, though Before she could avoid him he displayed the incredible speed of his feline DNA and crossed the rooain

His ar her in place and keeping her against his chest despite her initial attempt to place distance between them

Staring up at hier and an arousal that felt as though it were burning out of control, she glied in his blue eyes

“Better your hatred than your death Or the horror of watching you taken apart piece by fucking piece” He spat his words

There was no fear at the display of dominance

Anyone as around Breeds very often learned to live with such displays and such arrogance The torh It struck through her heart, tightened it, and left her throat thick with the unshed tears she refused to free

“You could trust my abilities as I trust yours,” she yelled back at hiainst him, as he displayed his complete

inability to ever consider her a worthy partner “Telltoo, or just mine?”

She knew the answer to her question It wasn’t hard to guess exactly who theaffected and who it wouldn’t