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Zane immediately headbutted the vamp. Blood poured from his nose.
“Shit! It’s me, Zane! Stop!”
“Would you shift back already?” Dee shouted at Jude as Jana stared at them, rage and fear twisting inside her.
Can’t just stand here. Can’t let them hurt Zane.
“She’s charging up.” What? Another freaking voice?
Jana turned her head, just a little, and saw the witch walk into the back lot. Catalina.
“She’s charging up,” Catalina said again, “and she’s going to attack.”
Can’t charge up. That wasn’t fire spiking her blood. It was plain old fury. But the vamps didn’t know that. “Get away from Zane!” She wanted her fire back!
At her words, Zane twisted and drove his fist into the male vamp’s bloody face. The vamp flew back ten feet.
“Uh, oh.” Dee shook her head and turned her back on the shifter. “Guessing this is why you’re still in tiger form.”
Because Zane was amped up, almost wild? Unstoppable.
The blonde’s gaze returned to Jana. Black irises—a vampire in hunting mode. Jana’s vision began to narrow.
Dee held up her hands. “I’m here to help him, not hurt him.”
Right. Like any vamp was there to help. She’d tried to help that other vamp in the swamp, and he’d literally bitten the hand that reached to help.
Zane launched at the tiger. They fell to the ground, rolling. Oh, damn. The tiger’s teeth were so close to Zane’s throat. Then Zane twisted and threw the tiger against a car.
“Help me.” The vampire—Dee—her voice was so powerful and compelling. It seemed to slip right under Jana’s skin. To slip inside.
No. Jana’s body tensed. “Zane just wants to get inside the building. To make sure no one else is trapped in there!”
“No one else is in the building. Jude would’ve smelled them. That death trap was for you and Zane.” Dee marched closer to her. “Call him off.”
She blinked. “What? I can’t.”
“I think she can,” came from Catalina and the witch began to close in on her, too.
“Call. Him. Off,” Dee repeated. “Because I don’t want to have to hurt him.”
Jana’s body tensed even more. “You think you can?” Right then, she didn’t think anyone could stop him. The tiger’s claws didn’t even come close to Zane’s skin now. He moved too fast, and he seemed far too strong.
But the male vamp was on his feet and heading forward with his hands up.
“No, Zane!” Jana shouted her warning.
Zane spun toward her, and Dee grabbed her. For a small chick, Dee was damn strong. Too strong.
“Come away from the building, Zane.” Dee’s soft order. More sirens. The cops and firefighters would be there any minute. “We have to get the hell out of here, and I need you to focus, got me, demon?” The woman’s claws were at Jana’s throat.
Rage and fear spiked again in Jana’s blood. Burning so hot. Burning.
“Dee.” Catalina’s shaking voice. “You, um, need to be very careful?—”
The vampire screamed and dropped her hold. Jana spun around and saw that Dee was clutching her hand. A hand that was smoking. Yes, oh, yes. The fire’s back! She was back!
Jana’s lips began to curve. Then the male vamp tackled her. Jana’s head thudded into the ground, and the world disappeared in a curtain of black.
