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She swallowed. Staying with him wasn’t an option. She knew that. Sex had been fun—okay a lot more than fun—but it couldn’t ever be more than a good time.
Bad things happened to people when they got too close to her. Most of them couldn’t stand the heat.
Goodbye, Zane. She couldn’t let him turn her in, and he would. Once he’d gotten the info he wanted about Project Perseus, he’d go back to collecting his bounty. And what would she do? Live the rest of her days in a cage?
No.
Jana dressed and then slipped out of the cabin. No more looking back.
* * *
Zane waited until he heard the soft click of the door closing, then he let his eyes open. His hand smoothed over the sheets that were still warm from Jana’s body.
She hadn’t waited long to turn tail and run. Hot sex, slam-bam, then she’d been gone.
He’d expected her to run, but…
I’d hoped I was wrong.
Innocent people didn’t run. He’d learned that lesson a long time ago.
Anger began to churn in his gut. The woman had thought he’d be blinded by the sex. That she’d just be able to slip right past him.
Think again.
He rose from the bed, dressed quickly, and marched to the table. Jude had left a phone for him. He punched in the shifter’s number. Jude answered on the second ring, just as Zane heard the roar of a motorcycle’s engine flare to life outside.
At least she had a helmet this time.
“She’s on the move,” he said, running a hand down his face.
“We put a tag on the bike. We’ll be able to follow every move that she makes.”
They’d follow because the motorcycle had been a lure for Jana, and she’d taken the bait. No, she was the bait, and he hadn’t even realized what game Night Watch intended to play with her until he’d arrived at the cabin, and Jude had mentioned the motorcycle.
Why tell a bounty about an escape vehicle unless you wanted her to escape? And then, when Jude had tossed him the keys, one glance at the shifter’s blue stare and he’d known exactly what Pak wanted them to do.
Let her run. Let her think she was safe. Then track her.
Because while Jana hadn’t started the fire at Night Watch, she was tied to those flames. The bastards who had set the fire were after her. If Jude and Zane watched her, if they followed her, they’d find the murdering assholes they wanted. Because those assholes would come after her again.
“Where are you?” he asked Jude, as he yanked open the door.
A green pickup shuddered to a stop right in front of the cabin. Zane lowered the phone. Of course, the shifter would have stayed close.
“Come on,” Jude yelled through his open window. “I’ve got the GPS linkup in the truck.”
Zane slammed the cabin’s door and hurried around the vehicle. He jumped inside, and seconds later, they were racing away from the swamp. He realized his knuckles ached because his hands were clenched so tightly.
“I didn’t expect her to run so fast,” Jude said as his gaze flickered to Zane.
“Neither did I.” And, yeah, stupidly, he’d actually hoped she wouldn’t run. He’d hoped Pak and Jude were wrong, that their plan wouldn’t work. He’d wanted to open his eyes and see Jana lying next to him, and he’d wanted her to tell him about Project Perseus. Wanted all her secrets.
Fucking delusional.
“You slept with her, didn’t you?”
His jaw clenched.
