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His gaze tracked to Erin. She wasn’t even breathing hard.
“Hot damn.”An impressed voice, anannoyingvoice. Zane. He stood in the doorway, hands on his hips, and watched Erin with narrowed eyes and pursed lips.
Well, at least now he knew why Erin had shown up at Delaney’s.
Mickey rushed toward the door, his claws out as he lunged at Zane.
The demon hit him hard and fast, and Mickey went down with a sigh shuddering out of him and his eyes closing.
Problem one solved.
Jude shoved up to his feet.
Erin rounded on him, her hands fisted. “You can’t attack suspects!”
He lunged across the room. Caught one of those deceptively delicate fists in his hands. Kissed it. Erin had just tossed his ass ten feet, and he wanted her. She was sexy and strong and her eyes were so dark and gold. Perfect.
Flawed? Not fucking likely.
The tiger inside was all but licking his lips.
“Mickey is guilty as sin,” he told her. “We both know it.”
“Yep, he is,” Zane agreed, stepping over the prone shifter and straightening his shoulders. His gaze swept over Erin, from her head to her toes. The demon lingered a bit too long on her breasts. He came close to getting a jab in the face then.
She ignored the demon and kept her attention on Jude. “There arelaws, you know.”
“Human laws don’t always apply to us.” She should know that.
Her jaw worked. “You were going for his throat.”
And she’d protected the little prick. Mickey sure owed her. “I wouldn’t have bitten, sweetheart.” He dropped her hand and missed the touch of her skin almost at once. But Zane was watching with those too-sharp demon eyes of his. And Catalina was pretending to clean a glass, but he knew the witch caught every word, every look. “Just trying to push some information out of him.” It was the way he worked. He wouldn’t apologize for threatening the hyena. Wasn’t like Mickey was one of the “good” guys, not any day of the week.
Her arms crossed over her chest. “Doesn’t seem like your push worked to me.”
Maybe. Maybe not. “Why didn’t he catch your scent?”
A furrow appeared between her brows. “What?”
Jude glared at Zane, but the guy just crept closer.
Finally, Erin glanced over at the other hunter.
“Some arm you got there, lady.” Zane offered her a smile. The same flirtatious grin he tossed at every female he saw, and one that usually gave him good results. Smiles back, phone numbers, even a couple pairs of panties.
“You.” She exhaled on a hard breath. “I recognize your voice.” She would. Shifters were great at recognizing tones and cadences in voice patterns. Came from their acute hearing. “You’re the one who called and told me to come down here.”
Right, Jude had figured as much. Glaring, he said, “I thought the plan was for you to stop at the courthouse.” And not bring Erin into his hunt.
The demon shrugged. “She wasn’t scheduled for court today. Had to improvise.”
Improvise.Sure. Zane had sent her right after his ass, and Erin had seen him at the worst moment. Well, technically, itcouldhave been worse. Mickey had still been breathing, after all.
“You said Jude needed me,” Erin’s voice heated. “That it wasurgent, that I had to get down to this Delaney’s place?—”
“We’re the best bar in town.” A murmur from Catalina.
Erin blinked.
