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“No,” Clayton said softly as I felt Joshua’s concern slip into my leg. “You can’t take those kinds of chances, Kristin.”
“The hell I can’t. Who is going to stop me? You? Ryker? Joshua? No. I’m tired of being locked up in a fucking prison, Clay. I need to get back out there, I need to see what’s going on, be part of life again before I lose my damn mind.”
“Kris, I realize that you’ve been hidden away for a long time,” Cameron started, “But it’s for your own protection.”
“You realize that I could kill every single one of you in this vehicle before you could bat an eye, right?”
Clayton and Conner shifted in their seats, as Angelina laughed, “She’s right, guys. She’s more dangerous than you all give her credit for.”
“You’ve been out of the game for a long time,” Cameron stated. “Things have changed.”
Before they knew what was happening, I had reached forward toward Ryker and Conner, and removed weapons. Putting a stake over Clayton’s heart and a gun to Cameron’s head. Everyone looked shocked, especially Josh.
Angelina clapped her hands and laughed, “Oh, goodie! Now there is the sister that I love!”
“Do I need to prove anything else to you men?” I said as I stared between the two of them. Clayton swallowed and pushed the stake away from his chest while Cameron shook his head.
“No,” Clayton said gruffly. “We get it, you need a few field trips. We’ll make sure they happen, but you still aren’t going out alone. That little jaunt over to your human’s house is the last one you get.”
“I refuse to be locked up anymore, Clayton.” I said as I handed Conner and Ryker back their weapons. Both of whom were grinning at me for getting the upper hand. “I will also decide where I go, and when I go, and who I take with me.”
He shook his head knowing that it wasn’t worth the fight. At least he could go back to the elders and tell them that I would consider mating with someone when I found the proper male to mate with.
Everyone was quiet as we returned to the hotel, and I was hustled back inside, with Joshua’s hand on my back. Beckett was pacing in the lobby as we came in and I glared at him as I walked past and to my elevator with Josh, Cam and Angelina at my side.
We were in the elevator when Angelina spoke privately to me,“You didn’t feed from him, why not?”
“I’ll explain later.”
“Well, at least go shower and then take Josh’s vein. You look weak.”
“Why do I need to shower? I don’t plan on having sex with Josh.”
She wrinkled her nose,“Because you smell like you’ve been around a barbeque pit. Your human’s scent is very strong.”
“You can smell him on me?”She turned to look at me, and I saw the flash of a question in her eyes.“We will discuss that later.”
When we got off the elevator, I told Josh to wait for me in the living room and went to shower. As I took my clothing off, I realized that I really did smell smoky. Hugh’s scent was oddly strong for a human man, and it made me wonder—not for the first time.
I dressed in comfortable slacks and a button-down blouse and returned to the living room to find Joshua standing at the window staring down, a drink in his hand. “I poured you one, it’s on the bar.”
“Thank you,” I told while I went to retrieve it. I almost had my hand around the glass, when Joshua was pushing me up against the bar, his hands tight on my arms.
“How could you do that?” The words seethed out of him. “How could you run out like that and take that kind of chance with your life. All you had to do was ask, and I would have taken you anywhere.”
“That would have defeated the purpose of being alone, Josh.”
“What if something had happened to you?” The tension in his hands lessoned, and he removed one and brushed it down the side of my face. “I’m not sure I could take it if something happened to you.”
“Josh,” I said softly, “I know you think that I am your responsibility, but I’m not. I appreciate everything that you do for me, I really do, but if something happens to me, it’s not your fault.”
“How can you say that? I swore to protect you, Kristin.”
“And like I said, I appreciate that, but—”
He pushed my chin to the side, running his nose down my neck and I felt his fangs graze the surface. A shiver jetted down my spine. God, it had been so long since someone had taken my vein, so fucking long.
“Do you know how badly I want to taste your blood? To have it course through my veins?”
