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“Perseus told me the demons I’d taken out were killers. They showed me the photos of their victims. They told me I had a gift.” Her lips twisted. “I’d always thought God cursed me, and here these people were telling me I had a gift.”
More fires flashed through his mind. But Jana wasn’t killing. Burning. Warning. But not killing. Demons ran. Shifters fled. No, she hadn’t killed. She didn’t kill, unless she caught the paranormals preying on humans.
A vampire caged a girl up against a tree. The girl—hell, she looked like she was about twelve. Her head was twisted, her neck bared, and the vamp’s teeth were buried deep in her throat.
“Let her go!”
But he didn’t stop drinking. Didn’t stop slurping down the girl’s blood with deep, greedy gulps.
So Jana let her fire burn. It raced toward him. She controlled it perfectly. The flames caught his legs but didn’t touch the girl. The vampire whirled back, screaming, and lunged for her. The fire surged up and consumed him as the girl cried and stared at Jana in horror.
“She didn’t understand that I was trying to help her. To her, I was just another monster.”
As her voice filled his head, he realized then that Jana hadn’t spoken, not out loud anyway, from the moment she’d first whispered, “Come in.”
He was in her mind, her words floating through his head, and she was guiding him. Showing him the things she wanted him to see. Telling him about her past. Baring her soul. A soul that wasn’t perfect. Tarnished, just like his. But one that wasn’t evil.
“They sent me after a shifter about a year ago. Told me he’d been cutting the throats of coeds in the area.” Again, her voice was only in his head. Soft, flowing. Jana.
“But I never went for a straight kill on my targets. I watched first, and he—he wasn’t doing anything wrong. I followed him for a solid month, and I never saw him even raise his voice to anyone.”
An image flashed before him. A man, thin, tall, with bright blond hair. He walked down the road with the streetlights flickering over him.
“He was a wolf shifter. They told me all wolf shifters were psychotic. That he had to be put down to stop the killings.” Her breath rasped out. Her scent surrounded them.
The man stopped at the mouth of an alley. A woman screamed. He ran inside. Two men had a woman pinned between them. They were ripping her shirt while she screamed and begged for them to stop.
“He shifted and saved her. Those men will wear his marks for the rest of their days, but the girl didn’t get so much as a scratch from him.”
Not a killer’s M.O.
“When Perseus found out I hadn’t eliminated him, they weren’t pleased with me.”
Jana and the wolf faced off. Another dark night, this one with a full moon. Perseus agents were in the background, easing close with guns ready.
“They set us up to meet. A recipe for death.”
The wolf stared at her, his muscles locked. Saliva dripped from his fangs.
“I was supposed to burn him.”
The wolf threw his head back and howled. A long, sad wail of mourning. Then he walked to her and lowered his muzzle.
“He wasn’t attacking me. He wasn’t attacking anyone. So I stood back, and I let him go. And he wasn’t the last that I didn’t stop.”
And Perseus hadn’t liked that.
“Just because you’re a monster, it doesn’t mean you’re evil. I broke into Beth’s office. I found out that she’d been doctoring the files. That wolf—his girlfriend had been killed by a human serial killer. The killer slashed her throat, and she bled out before the shifter could get to her. Yes, the shifter had killed, but he killed the bastard who murdered his girlfriend. Not anyone else. All those other girls—a human murdered them all.”
But Perseus had still put the shifter on their hit list.
“I guess the people in charge at Perseus didn’t like that I started questioning their orders.”
Jana lay bound to a hard metal table. Two men in white lab coats loomed over her.
“But I was tired of being their attack dog.”
