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He blinked and, wait, did his high cheeks redden?
“He’s no damn incubus,” Zane said and a thread of anger roughened the words. Sure, he’d gone through the smoke, but he sounded perfectly normal. Demon strength and healing powers had their benefits. “He’s human.”
“We can’t all be demons,” the cop said quietly.
A human who knew Zane’s secrets? Interesting.
Tony leaned forward. “Why’d you attack my man, Zane?” The question was fired fast.
His man? Oh, the other cop. “Because your man fired on us,” Jana answered immediately, not waiting for Zane to respond. She wouldn’t let Zane take the heat for this. Not when that cop had come out with his gun blazing.
Tony’s lips tightened. “Bullshit. I gave an order?—”
“Oh, you gave it all right,” she shot back, her hands knotting into fists. “Deadly force was fine as long as it was directed at Zane, right? What’s a dead demon when?—”
But the cop wasn’t looking at her. He shook his head slowly, and a deep furrow appeared between his eyes. “He fired on you?”
Zane lifted his hand, raising the cuffs. “First he tried to, ah, break us apart with a bullet. When that didn’t work, he said I was the expendable one.”
“Fuck.” Not disbelief. Shock. Wait, did he believe what they were saying?
Jana glanced between them. “You ordered a hit on him, you?—”
“Ease up, princess,” Tony said.
What? Her eyes narrowed on him.
“I’ve got a rat in my unit.” Tony shook his head again, and his shoulders slumped. “What the hell is happening?”
The guy was playing innocent, that was happening. She’d never met an innocent cop. Plenty who were on the take. Plenty who knew how to look the other way, but innocent? No way.
“How’d the fire start at Night Watch?” Tony asked, and that fast, the cop’s eyes were back on her.
Jana shrugged. “You tell me, princess.”
His eyes narrowed, just a fraction. “You’re a wanted woman. How about I just go and throw you in a cage until it’s time to haul you back to New Orleans?”
“Tony,” Zane’s voice snarled, “you’re not?—”
She yanked on the cuffs. “You really going to throw us both in jail?”
Tony put his hands on the table and leaned toward her. “I know what you are.”
“Bored?”
“Dammit, Jana!” Zane’s hand slapped on the table, making it shudder. “Just let him?—”
“You’re an Ignitor.” Tony pressed closer. “You like the fire, don’t you? You like to see those flames dance and destroy.”
She didn’t speak. Beside her, Zane seemed to be all but vibrating with tension.
“Zane was going to turn you in at Night Watch, wasn’t he?” The cop’s dark stare held hers. She could see the faintest flecks of gold around his pupils. “That’s why you’re cuffed. He was forcing you to come with him.”
She stared back at Tony and didn’t speak. Her hands flattened on the table.
“That made you angry, didn’t it? You couldn’t get him to let you go, and it pissed you off. And when Ignitors get pissed…” A brief pause. “Things have a way of exploding.”
“She didn’t do it,” Zane gritted out. “Trust me on this, okay?”
