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“Oryn!” I yelled. “Nero!”
Dagen glanced across his shoulder and sniffed the air. “Looks like it’s just us two, alone in thehouse.”
“What? No, they’re in the kitchen. They’ll tell you the truth. I’m here to healyou.”
He tsked, and a grin split his mouth, revealing white teeth. “You attacked me in the woods. And you expect me to believe you now saved me? I might still be groggy, but I’m nofool.”
The ache in my arms pinched from his grip, and hell if this was him groggy, would he have torn my heart out of my chest if fullyalert?
“You’re not too bright,” I blurted out, not sure what to say next. At once, I regretted my sudden confidence. Only to have it deflate under his piercing gaze. But those green eyes… I could drown in them, get lost for eternity, die in his arms as long as I stayed here. As insane as my thoughts were, my body shivered withanticipation.
“I will not hurt you,” Iinsisted.
The pain in my arms eased from his loosened grasp, and I raised a hand, touching his chest, hoping it might connect us, help him calmdown.
Energy buzzed from my fingertips, spreading outward as it hadearlier.
His body trembled, and he stumbled backward, his gaze flittering across his torso. Narrowing eyes fastened on me, and a snarl rolled from his throat. His shoulders curled forward. Just as I’d seen Oryn do in the cave when he lostcontrol.
My breaths were in a marathon and my lungs were losing the battle. I sidestepped along the wall, every inch of meshivering.
“What did you do?” hebarked.
“Please don’t hurt me.” I spied the door about five feetaway.
He shook his head and kept whacking the base of his palm into histemple.
Escape was my only chance of survival. And where the hell were the guys? Yep, they’d find their friend conscious and me dead. A choked cry fell from mylips.
Bastards!Yep, I only seemed to swear when facingdeath.
I turned and sprinted, but he moved so fast, my vision blurred. He shoved me against the wall and pushed me by the shoulder to face away from him. His hot breath blew through my hair as he whispered in my ear, “So you want to taste my lipsagain?”
“Wait, what?” An attempt to turn was impossible as he pushed himself against my back, squishing me. “If you heard me while you were out of it, then you know I’m not the enemyhere.”
“Maybe, but what concerns me right now is why your scent is fogging my head. Why some of your thoughts fill my mind. Why all I can think about is me fucking you. Except I don’t dohumans!”
With my cheek pressed to the wall, and his hands crawling up the sides of my body, I raised my voice to show him I wasn’t a pushover. “Arrogant much? And I don’t do shifters, either.” Damn, I was the worst liar in theworld.
His laughter covered me in pinpricks, the kind that dove south and curled in the apex of my legs. Heavens! This hunter could snap my neck off, and here I suffocated inheat.
“That’s why my friends’ scents are all over you.” He pulled the hair off the side of my face, his stubble grazing my cheek as he responded, “Shall we try again? What did you cast onme?”
“H-Healed you. But that’s okay, you need not thank me. Heavens forbid you showgratitude.”
He stiffened for a moment but didn’t back away. “And the magic from your touch? Did you cast a delusion spell so I’d fall victim to your seduction until you escaped? Is that what you’ve done to my wolfbrothers?”
My mouth opened, but nothing came out at first. I hadn’t once considered that an option, but it warranted consideration. “I mean you noharm.”
“I can smell your lies from yourperspiration.”
“Because you’re squashing me, and I can hardly breathe, you psychoshifter.”
“Hunter,” he growled in myear.
“Okay, hunter. Now let me go,” Iyelled.
When his weight eased away, I turned around, but he remained there, arms on the wall on either side of me, glaring down atme.
