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Jana grabbed his hand. “I think you’re the only one I should trust.” He’d never betrayed her. Hadn’t lied to her.
“You don’t know what I can do.”
She had a pretty good idea. She’d been with him in the fire.
His eyes were level with hers. “I killed him,” he said, whispering the words. “My own father, and I didn’t even hesitate.”
Her fingers squeezed his. “You didn’t?—”
“I could still smell her blood on him. The bastard was high on his fucking drugs. Always the damn drugs. He killed her, gutted her, all because she tried to take away his drugs. She just wanted him to get clean.”
Jana swallowed. “Get in the car, Zane.” She didn’t like him being in the open. “Let’s go back home.” She wanted to be alone with him. To hold him. Weird. She’d never wanted to just hold a man before, but Zane wasn’t any man.
His jaw clenched. He pulled back, slammed her door, and hurried around to the driver’s side. When he jumped in, he revved the engine.
Jana touched the powerful fingers that gripped the wheel so tightly. “You did what you had to do.” She could understand that more than any other.
Slowly, his head turned to face her. His gaze was blacker than the night.
“I’ve got a lot of power inside me,” he told her, his voice quiet in the stillness of the car. “Maybe too much. I can do things, such bad things.” He shook his head. “Killing him was easy for me.”
He’d never told her his demon power scale. She understood why. Most people feared the demons who tipped the scales. He didn’t want to be feared, just accepted. “You’ve got power, but you’ve got control of it.” The control was what mattered. Control separated the demons from the monsters.
“My control broke that night. I was just a kid.” His fingers whitened around the steering wheel. “But I killed him in an instant.” His lids lowered. “What do you think would happen now if I lost my control?”
“I don’t think you would.” After everything they’d been through, no, the man had always been strong. Even when he faced death.
He laughed and shifted to reverse with a hard yank of his hand. “Baby, you don’t even know how close I’ve been.” The car slid back. He shifted again. “And you’d better hope you never see me that way. Because when my control shatters, hell comes calling.”
If he was as high on the scale as she believed, yeah, that could happen.
He drove fast. His eyes stayed locked on the road, and not on her anymore.
“Don’t go to the police station,” she told him and kept her fingers against his. “Take us back to your place.” Because she wasn’t afraid of him or the hell he promised.
The car raced forward. Faster, faster, into the dark.
* * *
Fury coiled tight in Zane’s belly. Jana didn’t understand. She didn’t see him, not the real man. If she knew what hid under his skin, if they all knew…
They’d fucking run.
But she sat beside him, and she kept touching him. The woman should be pulling away. He’d tried to warn her while there was still time.
Because time was running out for Jana Carter. He’d realized that when he’d found her in his bedroom. She wasn’t just a fast screw. Someone to hold in the dark. A body to give him pleasure. No, she’d started to mean more.
Hell, he wasn’t even sure when the change had happened, but she mattered to him. Mattered more than anything or anyone else. And that was very dangerous.
No one got too close to him. He didn’t let himself care. He even kept the other Night Watch hunters at a distance. Because when he cared too much, if he let someone slip past his guard, it was too dangerous.
But already, the demon wanted her. Jana had a darkness inside of her that the demon in Zane liked. She knew the horrors in the world. Wasn’t afraid of them. Wasn’t afraid of him.
When she should have been.
He risked a glance at her from the corner of his eye. Fucking beautiful. Deceptively delicate. And…
Mine.
