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She knew about the Guides who’d tried to kill him and his brothers more than once—and who would try again, when they had the chance.
The front door slammed downstairs, and Quinn sat up on the bed. One or more of his brothers were home. She slid her phone out of her pocket and wanted to tell Nick to get the lead out.
But he was so adorably anxious about seeing Adam that she didn’t want to rush him. “I think I always knew there was something about you,” she said.
He didn’t glance up. “Yeah?”
“That suffocation thing—you did that to Gabriel once, didn’t you? That day I made you dinner and he came home acting like a real shit?”
Nick’s hands went still. “Yeah.”
He sounded ashamed. Quinn snorted. “Too bad you didn’t follow through.”
He turned to look at her. “It’s not a game, Quinn. I could have lost control.”
“Well, you sure didn’t seem to mind using it on Tyler.”
Nick turned away and shoved the drawer closed with a bang, moving on to the next one.
Quinn came and crouched next to him. His hair was still slightly damp from a shower—which he’d taken alone, despite her offer to keep up appearances—and he smelled slightly sweet and musky at the same time, like one of those guy-brand body washes.
“What’s up?” she said. “You okay?”
He turned his head to look at her. “I hate that guy.”
“Really? I didn’t get that from the warm welcome you gave him in the driveway.”
“I don’t want to talk about Tyler.” He slammed another drawer and moved on to the bottom one.
“What are you looking for?” she asked quietly.
“Something that doesn’t make me look like I spent twenty minutes doing exactly this.”
“Are you sure you don’t have a spandex suit under those clothes?”
“I do, in fact. Little surprise for later.”
Quinn snorted. “What you’re wearing is fine.” And it was: a soft blue T-shirt that clung to his body and made his eyes almost vibrant.
“Are you nervous about what you told me? You said you were in danger.”
He gave up on rummaging through the drawer. “We are.
We’re always at risk of someone coming to town to kill us all.”
“The Guides, right?”
“Yeah. But we try to keep our heads down and not reveal our talents. That’s one of the rules: we have to demonstrate our abilities to earn a death sentence. When we were younger, Tyler and Seth used to beat the shit out of us to try to force us to use our powers, but we’re stronger now and they mostly stay away.”
stared at him. Their breath still fogged in the air as if the heat in the house wasn’t working. Gooseflesh had sprung up along her forearms, and she shivered. “You want to tell me what just happened there?”
“Yeah.” Nick turned his head to look at her. “That’s the rest of my secret.”
CHAPTER 2
Quinn sat backward on Nick’s desk chair and watched him fidget. He was sitting on the end of his bed, twisting his ball cap between his hands. A sudden noise would probably send him sky high.
No one else saw this side of Nicholas Merrick. She’d always thought he had his life perfectly in order, with a college plan and a handle on everything. When they’d first started dating, she’d thought she’d finally found the perfect boy to latch on to.
