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pulsing through him.
    Bloody fine time for that.
    She wriggled again, aiming a deadly look at him. The look didn’t kill him, but it heightened the heat. He had the insane urge to grind into her but held himself in check. What the hell was wrong with him? He’d numbed himself to anything sensual, any desire, and here he felt it with this potentially homicidal woman.
    She tried one last time to jerk up her knee, and his pelvis mashed even harder against her. Good God, he felt an erection, the first one since—
    “I won’t be an easy rape, you son of a bitch,” she spat out at him, still breathless. “Is this what Russell’s doing now, sending crazed rapists after me?”
    Rape? Of course, his wayward cock. “I’m not going to rape you. I want to know why you’re going to kill my brother, Magnus.”
    She blinked in confusion. “Magnus? Kill him? Are you crazy? I have no intentions of killing him.”
    “I am a little crazy, actually. I saw a vision of the future, you standing over his body.” No need to go into any more than that.
    “You saw a vision. As in a crystal ball type vision?”
    “Don’t look at me like I’m the strange one. You’re obviously into some weird stuff. What’s the symbol mean?” He nodded toward the sort of cross. “Are you a devil worshiper?”
    Her laugh was hoarse. “No.”
    “Why didn’t you scream for help, even when you thought I was a rapist? What are you hiding?”
    Something happened. One moment they were there, him pressing her against the wall, and the next all he saw was a black blur and then he was thrown across the room. He hit the wall and slid to the floor. He blinked, stumbling to his feet even though every muscle in his body screamed in pain.
    She stood where she’d been, eyes wide and mouth trembling. “Get out of here. I would never hurt Magnus. Just get out of here.”
    The energy in the room had changed, sparking and electric. She was scared of whatever had happened.
    Lachlan rubbed his shoulder. “What did you do to me?”
    “Get out.”
    Or she’d do it again? No, she hadn’t exactly said it as a threat. Still, it was a threat nonetheless. He glanced at the symbol and then at her. Her hands were clenched into fists at her sides. Now her whole body shook, as though she might explode. She took deep breaths, making her chest rise and fall.
    He walked out, watching her the whole time. He had astral-projected into many different places and time periods, into battles and even one of the Holocaust camps. He had never felt this kind of energy.
    She was dangerous. He got into his truck and drove directly to Magnus’s new flat.
    J essie stood in her apartment for a long time, letting the trembles rumble through her body. Everything that had just happened washed across her mind, pulsing like a strobe. Fear of dying, of being raped, and then the bizarreness of the man’s accusation. He had triggered her Darkness, which scared her as much as anything else.
    She took a deep breath and looked around for the papers she’d come back for. They were all over the floor. It hurt to bend down and grab them, and she winced. Wince all you want now, because you can’t when you get back to work .
    She walked outside, pausing on the landing to make sure the man was gone. No sign of him. She hadn’t screamed. Couldn’t scream. The last thing she needed was having the police dig too deeply into her life. She walked to her Yukon, taking calming breaths.
    Her phone was beeping, signifying that someone had triggered her security alarm. She might have known the jerk was waiting for her if she’d taken her phone with her. She was tempted to click on the link, but there wasn’t enough time. A cluster of charms hung from her rearview mirror: an angel, rabbit’s foot, horseshoe, four-leaf clover encased in plastic, and a Star of David, and they dangled back and forth as she maneuvered through traffic.
    A quick fix of her face, a brush through her hair, and she looked as normal as