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they touch you, baby girl?”
    “Just my breast, it never went further than that. I smacked him in the face.” She still recalled her stinging palm as she automatically looked down at it.
    “Good girl, but, love, we need to know who Billy is to you.” Cece swallow knowing this was going to be the hardest thing she had ever done. But she felt an odd connection with these men.
    “He is, well…you see, Becky and Millie doesn't know.”
    “Don’t know what, red?”
    “Billy is my brother.”
     

Chapter Four
     
    “ What do you mean you don’t know where she is?” Billy started to shake with fear at the hooded man. Today he was joined by a woman who didn’t seem all that happy with him either. This is what he hated about his job. He was just supposed to watch her and make sure she never found her mate, and didn’t come into her power. They handpicked him to do this over others who wanted it.
    “She was supposed to be at work, but she didn’t show up, I checked, and she wasn’t in her room. I have a feeling I know where she went, but she always comes home. She is too scared to stay away.” He wanted him to see he had the situation under control.
    “If she doesn’t, then it will be your head that rolls. She needs to stay in the dark, if she discovers what she is, or what she is even capable of, the small human can screw with our plans. It was damn Lola and her sister who wanted bigger quickly, but the truth is it was better to be in the shadow and remain out of sight. Now we have everything in place and you screw it up. You are incompetent. I have run out of patients with you. Make sure she comes home, because if she doesn’t, we will come for you.” And in a black puff of smoke the two figures disappeared. Billy knew that if Cece didn’t come home and told anyone about him then all would be lost. However, they didn’t know her like he did, she always came home to him—always. He would make sure of it, and when she did, he planned to chain her to the bed until they finally came to collect her.
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    “Wait, you have a brother?” Cece was so tired of this subject, and it frightened her that others might found out.
    “Yes, he’s a half-brother actually, it seemed my dad had a fling when he was younger before my mother and produced the spawn of Satan. He controls everything, he has the house, the money, everything. I got smart-lipped with him last night and this was the result. I really don’t want to talk about it anymore. I just rather put it behind me and get to work. If he finds out, I don’t know what he would do.”
    “You can’t go back there, and I swear I am gonna kill the fucker,” Grey snapped.
    “Please don’t, he could hurt you. He and his friends.”
    “You are not going back without us.” This time Sam was glaring at her.
    Frustrated she sighed deeply, “Look, I understand you have this whole mating thing, I know all about it. Both my best friends have mates, and I don’t want that. I mean look at you two, and look at me. You both are hot, and shifters, and have a long life. I am a mere human, short, plain, glasses, and work in a library for heaven sakes. I have cat lady written all over me,” she snickered at her own comment, but it was true. The only boys, or men, that found her attractive were the wrong kind who wanted a quick fuck and made her feel dirty. Other than that, she was a friend to everyone. Hell, she never stood a chance with Becky and Millie as her friends. She was the homework girl, the one people saw through.
    “You are so much more than that, you just need to believe in yourself.” Growling in frustration she stood, causing slight pain in her side, but she wasn’t backing down. She didn’t need these men messing up their life because of her.
    “Okay, here is how it is. I am going to leave, you’re going to forget the whole night even happened, and we go our separate ways.” She turned to leave, but someone grabbed her arm. Shaking him off, she kept on