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“You’d make a lovely match!” Grace exclaimed, but then her nose scrunched up in confusion. “Wait a minute.” She turned to Kyran. “Did you just say bounty hunter?”
“Yes,” I snapped, replying in his stead. “Gideon Fletcher hired her. She’s dangerous, Gracie.”
“I knew she was hiding something,” she whispered.
“A huge something,” I retorted, my world spiraling. “The mate magic hasnotstirred,” I growled at Kyran.
“Whatever you say, man. But don’t expect butterflies and rainbows when it hits. It’s shit. Like a huge chemical reaction. One you can’t control. Trust me. The Goddess Leto is laughing at us. Especially with her selections.” He glanced at Grace again, and I raised an eyebrow his way. He threw back the bird.
“Listen,” Grace tried to placate, “Savannah may be lying about who she is, but you need to hear her out. I got good vibes about her. A sense of urgency, yes. Weight on her shoulders, perhaps. But I like her. She has strength and character, and you’ve got to admit, it’s no mean feat that she found the town when many have failed in the past.”
“She’s dangerous,” I reiterated.
“I’m not getting that from her. And it’s high time you did something about Gideon anyway, save throwing all that money away to keep a look over your shoulder. You’re more powerful than him. A lot more. You need to take that asshole down.”
Seeing the venomous look on her cute face made me chuckle and calm down some. I stroked her cheek, a friendly gesture, nothing more, for a woman I loved like a friend. Kyran shoved my hand away from her face.
“Focus on the hunter,” he snapped. “I’ll talk to Max and give him the heads up on it all. We can meet in one week.”
“But what do I do about Savannah?” I asked them both in appeal.
“Trust your heart,” Grace said at the same time Kyran instructed, “Trust your gut.”
“Be honest with her,” Grace added, but Kyran shook his head in disagreement.
“No, man. Find out what she knows first. Play it safe. That way, you can have your cake and eat it too.”
Grace scowled at him. “You’re an idiot.”
“I don’t hear you complaining.”
“I just did.” Ignoring him, she pleaded her case to me. “Savannah will be pissed when she finds out you’ve played her. And I’m supposed to be going for a beer with her tonight. Do you expect me to lie?”
“She’s the one lying, Gracie,” I reminded her. “All I’ll be doing is playing her at her own game before turning the tables.”
“I don’t like it.”
“You don’t have to.”
“I do if you involve me,” she snapped back, shoving her hair from her face. “How am I supposed to act naturally around her?”
I softened at Grace’s good heart. “Just pretend you don’t know any of this. Erase it from your mind. I’ll plan to run into you both at some point tonight, and we’ll take it from there—just as I would have done if I hadn’t strolled in here today.”
“I won’t see you hurt her.”
“I’m not going to hurt her.”
“There are more ways to hurt a person than physically.”
“She’s lying to you, too,” Kyran reminded her.
“Maybe because she has to.”
“Don’t be naïve.”
Grabbing a wrench from the wall, she aimed it at Kyran’s head. “What did I tell you?”
The blond alpha laughed. “To never say that you’re naïve. Or paranoid.”
