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For now.Code for later, he’d be back to slice Dee to ribbons.
“Why do you do it?” she cried out. “Why all the killings? Bobby Burrows?—”
His hand waited in the air, but he answered her. Harper had always loved to hear himself talk. That was one of the many reasons why his court had always been torture for her. “Burrows made you look like a fool. He escaped onyourwatch.”
Well, the cops’ watch.
“And he was worthless trash, eating away at the world. He needed to be put down.”
“That’s not your call to make! You can’t decide who lives or dies! You can’t?—”
His hand fell. “I’ve spent fifteen years of my life deciding who lives and dies. I damn well know what I’m doing.”
Executing his own brand of justice and claiming to kill for her. “You’re crazy,” she whispered. Probably not the smartest thing to say to a killer, but what the hell?
“Wolves in packs don’t become psychotic.” His voice had chilled.
He hadn’t been in a pack for almost thirty years.
“Mated wolves out of the pack retain their sanity.”
He wasn’t mated. Did the guy even see where this was headed?
“You’re my mate. Since finding you, everything in my life has become crystal clear.” His lips firmed and he took a step forward?—
And he stumbled.
The blood loss. It was finally hitting him.She’d hoped if she kept him talking, kept him focused—yes!
Harper slipped in his own blood and went down, hard.
“Erin...”
She shook her head. “I’m not your mate, and even if I was, I wouldn’t spend a day of my life with you.”
“The tiger...” His head fell down. His body shuddered. “Should have...killed him...beginning...”
No.“Jude isn’t exactly easy to kill.” One of his best traits.
His claws scraped over the pavement. “Saw the way...you…l-looked at him...Has to...die...”
“No, he doesn’t. You’re not going to hurt Jude.”
He threw his head back, and she saw his face. A wild combination of man and beast. “You’re mine!”A barely human howl of fury. The transformation ripped through his body and he shuddered, almost convulsing on the ground.
Not a shift.No.He should have been too weak to transform. Should have been...
Bones snapped. Fur burst from his skin.
“No!”Erin flew at him, attacking, hoping to stop the shift before it was too late.Before he was too strong.Because if he shifted, he could heal—and he could kill her.
But his shift was fast. Faster than Jude’s. Faster than any shifter she’d ever seen in her life. When her body fell against his, she sank her claws as deeply as she could into his side—not the side of a man, but the body of a wolf. She thrust her claws past the thick fur and right into the muscle.
The wolf howled, and his head—long, thick muzzle, too-dark eyes—turned toward her.
This was so not good. Erin stumbled back, sweat coating her body.
The wolf rose to his feet. His muscles vibrated, and his fangs dripped saliva.
