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He’d turned so that no one else could see him but the to into a face that wasn’t just stripping the the skin off their bodies, or s about the The look on his face was alien, other, in-fucking-comprehensible to anyone asn’t a sexually sadistic lust killer

My instinct was to go straight to the tomen and mark territory hard, but Olaf wouldn’t attack them here in front of witnesses We’d established that in the woods earlier He liked having his secret identity intact, so they were safe for now

The energy co off the two SEALs was so a

ngry, their beasts were beginning to boil under the surface of their skin like water that was alree burns My beasts stirred wolf and hyena because Milligan and Custer were one of each, respectively My inner wolf and hyena weren’t the exact species as theirs, so the call was never as strong, but their energy still echoed through the cousin beasts I carried If they started a fight with Leduc, then he’d never let anyone from the Coalition into his jail, so I started with the men I’d leave the beast and the beauties for second

I tried to step between Leduc and the two ainst them, so I stepped into him I didn’t hit him, didn’t use force, just literally walked so that the front of my body touched the side of his, and the two SEALsthe hair on h I had done nothing to make it happen It was like I’d startled him

“What the fuck is wrong with you, Blake?” Leduc yelled it, but his voice didn’t have the force it had had a ht hiht have caused hi at me, but I was small and female, and sometimes that helped defuse situations

“You don’t get to treat my people the way you do your deputies, Duke,” I said “They aren’t your whipping boys”

“Whipping boys? What the fuck does that evenone and you lecture me on unprofessional conduct?”

“You’re right on that I’m sorry for the over-the-top PDA I won’t even try to excuse it”

The apology seeuard, too “Well, I appreciate the apology and you ad”

“But please, from now on, don’t take my bad behavior out on my people”

“I thought they were the Coalition’s people”

“I asked Micah Callahan to send his people here They are all at least work friends for me, so since Micah isn’t here, they’re my people, like your deputies are yours I wouldn’t disrespect your people the way you just did mine”

Duke seemed to think about that for a h, Blake”

I held out a hand, and after a moment’s hesitation, he shook it, a little tentatively because his hand was so er than mine A lot of men have trouble with smaller hands like mine, so I didn’t take it personally