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“This wasn’t supposed to happen,” she whispered, and she blinked away the tears in her eyes. “It wasn’t…”
He kissed her. Because right then, he had to. Vamp attacked her. Could have lost her. In the end, despite their powers, Ignitors were only human. Unlike the vamp, an Ignitor couldn’t take a bullet and rise again.
So easy to kill. Too easy.
His lips brushed against hers. Light at first because she was delicate. So fragile. But her hands rose and sank into his hair and she arched up against him, kissing him harder. Pressing her mouth tightly to his.
Zane’s tongue thrust into her mouth. His hold was too hard. He knew it, but he couldn’t manage to ease his grip. Can’t let her go.
The world fell down around them, but he held her close and wondered how in the hell she’d come to mean so much to him. So much that he was ready to kill for her.
“Zane!” The shout broke through the chaos, but he didn’t let Jana go. Not yet.
“Zane, fuck!” Footsteps thudded toward him. “I come to save your ass and find you getting ass!”
Jude. Perfect timing, as always. Slowly, Zane lifted his head. His gaze craned to the right and met the shifter’s. “Arriving late to the party?”
Jude whistled as he took in the scene before him. “What the hell did you do?” The question wasn’t for Zane, though. No, when he asked, his stare locked on Jana.
Tony ran up behind them. “Fire trucks are coming but—shit, Catalina? What are you doing here?”
“Like I said,” Zane murmured, “a party.” A death party.
Jana stiffened against him. “The cop?” Her whisper. She shoved against Zane, and he let her go, but only because he knew there was a hell of a lot to work out. Sirens blasted in the distance. The fire trucks. Probably police cars, too.
Zane exhaled heavily. “You sure took your sweet time tracking me.” Jude was usually a much better tracker. He’d thought his friend would arrive sooner. Before the fire and screams.
Tony rushed toward Catalina. She had one arm around the vamp, and she was struggling to pull him out of the water.
“What the hell happened to him?” Tony demanded.
Catalina’s green eyes darted to Jana.
“I did,” Jana said, squaring her shoulders and stepping even farther away from Zane. What was up with that?
Zane’s eyes slit when Tony offered a hand to the vamp. “Watch it, Tony.” The cop would need the warning. “The bastard with Cat bites.”
“Shit.” From Jude. Yeah, the shifter understood. He would have caught the vamp’s scent.
Instead of reaching for the vamp, Tony drew his weapon and leveled it at the guy. “My bullets are laced with holy water. Make one move at me, come at me with those teeth, and the first bullet goes between your eyes.”
Tony always believed in being prepared. Smart guy.
Jana slipped back a few more steps.
Fire trucks and police cruisers flew onto the scene. The low flames flickered, and the smoke billowed. Then the uniforms burst out of their cars.
Showtime.
* * *
Her neck burned. It ached and throbbed and burned. What the hell? You try to do something nice for someone, like oh, drag a guy’s butt out of the fire, and as payment, he bites you. Did she look like a freaking buffet?
As the cops swarmed the scene, Jana eased deeper into the darkness. The firefighters were blasting the remaining flames with hoses from their trucks. Not that there was much point in fighting the fire now. Those flames were dying on their own. Without the Ignitor to fuel the fire, they would sputter out.
The Ignitor.
Jana cast a fast glance at Beth’s body. Beth had lost control at the end. The fire had been too new for her. She hadn’t been able to control the flames.
