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Her smile felt sad on her lips. “You don’t really think you’re the only hunter out there, do you?” A hard, brittle laugh. “While you’re hunting your prey, who do you think is hunting you?”
His brows climbed. “Those jerks were humans. Humans can’t?—”
“Some humans are very good at hunting.” Especially if they forced someone else to do the grunt work. “Some humans don’t think demons and vampires and shifters deserve to live in this world. They think monsters should be put down, by any means necessary.” She’d been that means before.
“That right? And these hunters…why do they want you?”
She had to glance at the mirror. What if someone was watching? “Why do you think?”
“Because you’re their weapon of choice?” Disgust. “All they have to do is aim and you fire?”
She wouldn’t flinch. “I’ve been trying to get away from them for over a year. Why do you think I burned down that compound in New Orleans? They’d been holding me there.”
So many days stuck in that damn cell. Trapped.
Tony thought he’d lock her up again? Oh, hell, no. No one would lock her up.
“Bullshit. You could have burned your way out any time?—”
“I have to see in order to burn.” He knew that. “They kept me blindfolded or locked in a pitch-black cell.” Hell wasn’t always hot and bright. Sometimes it was dark and so quiet. “The first time they slipped, the first time the blindfold came off…”
She could still hear the screams. Jana licked her lips. “Their mistake. I got out.” She’d made sure she brought that building down behind her.
“But now they want you back.”
“Looks like it.” They were wasting time. One cop was already on their payroll. Where there was one, there were always half a dozen more. The hunters would be at the station soon. Maybe posing as other cops. Maybe dressed like lawyers. But they’d be there to take her.
And what would happen to Zane?
“Give me a name.”
Her lips parted. Footsteps thudded outside the door. Tony was coming back.
Zane’s eyes stayed locked on her. “Tell me who’s after you. Tell me.”
“They said—they said they were members of Project Perseus.” Perseus. The guy from Greek mythology who’d fought the monsters.
But some monsters didn’t need to die.
“Did you work with them? Did you kill for them?”
Jana took a breath. The right side of your mouth kicks up when you lie. “Yes.”
His eyes narrowed.
“If I stay here, they will come for me, and they’ll kill anyone in their path.” No telling how many cops they already had at their beck and call. “They’re framing me, forcing me against the wall.”
“And what—you want me to bust you out of jail? Baby, that’s just?—”
“A jail won’t hold me.” Simple. “I can burn my way out, and I will.” Because she wouldn’t wait on them to come and get her.
“No, you won’t.” He blew out a breath. “Not when there’s another way.”
Hope began to stir in her chest. “You’ll help me?”
His jaw clenched.
“Zane?”
