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As much as she enjoyed his bites, Ben wouldn’t appreciate the sentiment. And he might run screaming.
It looked like that response could be a near thing right then.
Thanks,Jude. “Ben, relax, okay? Everything is all right.”
“All right?” he thundered, still shaking his head. Then he shoved her behind him. “Do you see that guy? He’s gotclaws!”
She peered around Ben in time to see Jude shrug. “So does she,” Jude informed him.
“What?”
“There are some things I never told you about myself,” she said to Ben, using a tone she hoped was calm and easy.
He twisted around and eyed her with too-wide eyes. “What things?”
“Like the fact that I’m not...completely human.”
A shocked laugh. “Right.”
She held up her hand. Let him see her claws.
He jerked back from her and rammed into the desk. Horror was etched on his face. Disbelief filled his gaze. The reaction she’d always feared.
“You’ve stumbled into a hell you can’t fully imagine,” Jude said.
Ben just looked between them, shaking his head. “No, Erin, I cared about you, I?—”
“You cared about the woman you thought I was.” And she’d just wanted someone to love her, as shereallywas.
Claws and all.
“This isn’t real,” he muttered, running a trembling hand through his hair. “Can’t be, it’s?—”
Jude jerked his thumb over his shoulder. “The guy outside the door is a demon. I’m a white tiger shifter.”
“Not real.”
“And the killer you’re after—the one who left Erin’s picture in the hands of a dead man—is a wolf shifter.”
Ben’s brows bunched. “Were...wolf?”
“Close enough.” Jude nodded.
“No, that’s not even possible, there’s no way?—”
Jude held up his claws and this time, he bared his teeth.
The gulp that clicked in Ben’s throat seemed way too loud.
Erin reached out her hand to him, claws gone, but he flinched back.Knew it would happen.
Jude had never flinched away from her. She glanced at her shifter. No, he’d never flinched away, not even when he’d found out she was part wolf.
He’d wanted her from the beginning. No holdups. No hedging.
Taking her, as she was.
Jude’s bright blue gaze held hers.
