on pure instinct, and for a strange, suspended second she noticed how solid he was, how the heat of him at her

she said. "Who

he hadn't heard from him in the interview. He pulled his phone out, thumbed a message off fas

om the facility earlier, then the dark-haired woman from that afte

wan was gone again without a word

ulating in a way that made Sienna feel like a math proble

, birth mark, the whole thing. There wasn't

something in the shape of their eye

Killian, and in six years you've never once brought your instincts before

ding here," Sienna said, sharper than she

ractionally, like Sienna had passed a test she hadn't known she wa

is head. "Nothing. Car in the lot's registered to a r

eated, like he didn't believ

lock down the whole facility every time a car door slams, Killi

If it's not, I'd rather have overreacted than have

ht to it. Sienna wrapped her arms around herself, cold

said. "You keep saying people will come for me. Who?

ome silent negotiation passing between th

will, because he made sure there were no witnesses left to talk." His hands closed briefly into fists. "If he learns an Ashgrove daughter survived, h

the job, go back to my old apartme

a kindness, not a threat. "Half my brother's inner circle caught it the second you walked through the door

at in twenty minutes earlier, feeling like the floor of her life had been q

I am the only person on this planet responsible for him. Tell me exactly what you people are dragging b

, hands open, voice dropped to something low and steady that she s

the blood. An Alpha protects what's his, and like it or not, whatever the paperwork says about m

sn't get a vot

might be the only thing keeping you alive. I'd rather you hate

father is already flying in for it. If Sienna's scent lingers around Killian

e days to figure out how to keep two truths fro

can't?" Si

e edge of his gaze again, something fie

at exactly the same moment Draven Voss does. And I will have three days

'd imagined it, a long, low howl rose up over the parking structure and cut

othing," Rowan

d me," he told Sienna, low and urgent. "Don't open it for an

lli

omething that sounded, impossibly, like fear for her instead of himsel

lly, not yet, and the door shut behind him with a sound that felt,