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Gotta love a man like that.
Love.Erin’s breath caught.
“Bitch!”A scream from Harper. “Should have...been mine!My mate, my?—”
“I’ll never be yours.” She shook her head. “And you should know there’s no way you’re leaving here alive tonight.” Wouldn’t happen.
Sirens screamed in the distance.
A cage wouldn’t hold him.
But theywouldstop him. “Now let her go!” Erin demanded.
“Mine,”he whispered, but sounded broken, lost.
“No,” Jude snarled. “She’s not.”
Harper shook his head frantically.
Erin’s stare jerked to Dee’s face. The woman’s lips moved, soundlessly.Save her.
Dammit, she was trying! Trying to save them all. Dee, her mother?—
Dee’s eyes tracked to the right. Her gaze landed on the gun Dee had dropped when Harper grabbed her. Again, her lips moved. No sound.Save her.
Dee had reloaded that gun just moments before and she’d?—
No.Notsave her. That wasn’t what Dee was trying to say.
Once more, the human’s lips formed words. One word, not two.Silver.
Jude tensed beside her. He’d seen and understood Dee’s message, too.
“I loved you,” Harper whispered, and his hand flexed.
Dee’s head moved in the slightest of jerks, and Erin saw her body rock forward.
She’d have to move, fast. They both would.
Harper’s face twisted with hate, not love, and she knew he was going for the kill. “For you,” he said and the claws dug deep.
“No!”Erin lunged for the gun.
Dee twisted hard, jerking and squirming, and Jude was there, slashing with his claws and yanking her into his arms as he spun, attempting to shield Dee with his body.
Erin brought up the gun.
Harper smiled. “Just like me.”
She fired. The bullet blasted into his chest. Right into his heart. Her father had taught her that, too. Shoot to kill. Kill to protect. “No, bastard, I’m nothing like you.”
Harper’s eyes were wide open when he fell back. All the better to see death.
Her breath came out on a hard, ragged exhale.
Jude lowered his arms and turned back to glance at the body.
A grim smile curved Dee’s lips. “And this time, you’ll stay down.”
