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“I’ll be watching you, demon.Every move.” If it looked like the demon was going to sell him out, the bastard would feel a shifter’s rage.
Erin was silent and stiff beside him. The fury and fear raged on her face and the combination seemed to come off her in waves, thickening the air.
“You hired me to do this job,” he reminded her. “So let me do it.”
Her golden eyes went glacial. “It’s not just a job. It’s your life!”
And her life. “This is what I do,” he said again. What he had to do, for her. Protecting what you valued most was the way of his breed. Nothing was more valuable to him than Erin.
Her nostrils flared. “You don’t get so much as another scratch, you understand me?Not a scratch.You go in, stop the freak, and you come back to me.”
He blew out a slow breath. “You know, sweetheart, it sure sounds like you care what happens to me?—”
“Don’t be an idiot.” Her finger stabbed into his chest. “You know I?—”
Oh, come on, she couldn’t stop there.
“—I do.” Soft. Sad. “Sodon’tleave me, got it?”
Leave her? Not an option, now or damn ever. “Got it.”
She crushed her mouth to his. Made him ache and need and lust.
Her mouth lifted. Their eyes met. “I’ll be waiting for you.” Then she brushed past him. Erin climbed the steps with her head high and her shoulders straight. The metal door screeched open when she reached the top.
Jude realized he was holding his breath.Talk about a woman with power.
She could bring him to his knees so easily.
“Oh, damn.” Zane sounded bemused, confused, not like his usual cocky self. “That lady is...something else. Man, did youseethe way she fought?” Zane had always had a soft spot for a woman who could kick ass and ignore names.
“Yeah, I did.” There had been no missing the way she’d fought to save him. A smart man held a woman who fought like that very close. A smart man told her how he really felt, and he worked like hell to make her feel the same way.
“Uh, Jude...” Tony’s voice was back to that drawling roll now, not dazed any longer. “Are you sure about this plan? You don’t know what that perp could have waiting for you.”
“He doesn’t know what’scomingfor him.” No way was he backing down. “Don’t worry, Tony, I’m not scared of the big, bad wolf.” No, the wolf needed to be scared ofhim.
* * *
The sun was starting to set when Erin marched out of the den twenty minutes later. Red gold lights shot across the sky, looking weakly like trickles of blood.
Her hands fisted. “You’d better come back to me in one piece, Jude.”
He stood behind her, just inside the entrance to the den. “Don’t worry about me.”
Right.“You almost died on me once today.”Not again.
“I’ll have backup.”
The demon. Zane.
She stared up at the sky and tried to pretend she was in control.I can handle this.If she were going with him, she’d be handling it a whole lot better. If she were watching his back...
But Erin knew he was right. The wolf would catch her scent instantly.
Straightening her shoulders, she took a step forward. Dee stood next to a gray SUV, waiting semi-patiently for her. Jude had told the human to stay with Erin until he returned from the hunt.
A human? For protection? Seriously, she could rip the woman apart in less than ten seconds. If she were the ripping apart type.
