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“There’s something you should know, sweetheart.”
She hesitated but didn’t glance back.
“I realized a few things in that filthy hole.”
Yes, she’d realized some very important things too. When she’d seen him and he’d been so still, a jarring realization had come real quick.Can’t lose him.
“You stopped being a case for me, hell, almost from day one.”
She kept her shoulders straight and her hands loose at her sides.
“I fell for you fast,” he told her.
What?No, no, he couldn’t mean?—
She swallowed and stared up at that bloody sky.
“I’m coming back from this case, and I’ll be coming for you.”
Her hands curled into small fists. “Good.” And she looked back at him, standing so big and strong in that doorway. “Because if I don’t see your sexy ass within three hours, I’ll be coming foryou.” He wasn’t the only one who’d fallen. And Erin wasn’t about to lose the best thing that had ever happened to her. “Watch that ass, Donovan.”
Their eyes held.
I love you.The words stuck in her throat. She wanted to say them so badly but?—
“You too, sweetheart,” he murmured and her breath caught.
Then he was gone. Jude eased back into the den and she was left with the taste of fear on her tongue.
* * *
He watched his mate and fury iced his veins. Her face—her eyes?—
Fuck, no.
This wasn’t the way the game was played. The other shifter—he was prey. But Erin didn’t look at the tiger as if he were prey. No, not prey. So much more.
“Bitch,” the word was a growl that broke from his mouth. He’d done so much for her. Sacrificed and punished—and this was how she repaid him?
Unworthy.They could have been perfect. Unstoppable. The next evolution for their race.
The tiger had ruined that for him. Ruined every fucking thing.
* * *
“You really think this plan’s going to work?” Erin stood on Jude’s ramshackle porch, her skin cold even though the night was too warm. She stared up at the stars and wondered just how close Jude was to death.
Again.
Bastard.
Be safe. Come back to me.Because if something happened again, she wasn’t sure she’d get another vision. She’d sure never been able to control the power. No, this time, she might not get a vision.
Just a body.
“I don’t know if it will work.” Dee stepped to her side, moving almost as soundlessly as a shifter. A good hunter, for a human.
Dee’s response wasn’t the reassuring answer she’d wanted, but Erin was quickly coming to see that Dee wasn’t exactly a reassuring kind of woman.
