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improved the darker his mood became and she was disturbed at how easily he affected her. The sound of his deep voice sent little shivers travelling along her backbone and his laugh caused ripples of she didn’t know what, to twist and mix inside her stomach.
    “I helped you,” she muttered low, as though she already knew they wouldn’t believe her. She couldn’t tell them the truth for she was sure they would declare her a liar and do to her what their clan had done to her elders, and her parents. Did they believe she didn’t know?
    “Yes, you did, and I’m very grateful, but I need more than that.” Joshua leaned in close, his breath warm on the skin of her throat, causing more vibrations to tingle through her body. Was this another spell of his making?
    “We don’t need anymore. We know what she is and why she’s here. We should just kill her,” Noah grumbled, but Joshua’s furious look was enough to remind Noah of his brother’s famed rages. He would be wise to keep his opinions to himself.
    “Then just get on with it and kill me.” Eva stared defiantly into Joshua’s stern face, ignoring the brother who threatened her. If she had to go, she’d rather be looking into his gorgeous face than any other.
    “I’m not going to kill you,” Joshua flashed the beginning of a smile. He wanted her at ease. She didn’t need to be frightened any more than she already was. “Let’s try this again… are you an Ice Witch?”
    “Yes,” she answered honestly; she had nothing to gain from lying.
    “Did you come here to kill me?”
    “No.”
    “That’s it. Everything is getting better as we speak.” Joshua increased the warmth of his smile. “Why did you come here? And don’t bother to lie about wanting a drink. I doubt if you’ve ever had an alcoholic drink in your life.”
    The woman didn’t speak, but a look crossed her face as though deep thoughts were working their way through her mind. How much should she reveal?  How safe was she? They knew what she was; it was too late for lies.
    “I hunt demons and was on the trail of a Trajien demon who decided he wanted a drink in your establishment,” she whispered finally. “There are twenty-seven women dead or dying because of him and you let him walk out of your club.”
    “That’s impossible. The sensors would have detected him,” Noah blurted out although Joshua had distinctly warned him to keep out of it. Could a Traijen demon really get in with all the security they’d installed?
    “He has a new and improved shielding, that’s why I was trailing him.” Eva stared into Joshua’s face.
    “Noah, speak to Brendan, and have him run a full system scan… just in case.” Joshua waited only until his brother’s concentration was on the task he’d set him, before he turned his attention back to the woman. Her appeal seemed to deepen the more he found out about her and the fact she was an Ice Witch didn’t seem so important now. He stared at her, his midnight blue eyes drifting casually over her features. But she refused to meet his eyes, refused to acknowledge the fact that she was interested in him; that he fascinated her too. Her skin was fair like the finest porcelain but, in contrast, her eyelashes were long and dark, framing those impossibly pale eyes. Her throat sported darkening bruises where his heroic brother had wrestled her to the carpet and his eyes dropped lower where the shadow between her breasts could just be seen. He wanted to kiss away those bruises, to delve lower and see what delights could be uncovered beneath that dark clothing.

Chapter Five

    “She’s right,” Noah spat after a few minutes’ tense talking into the walkie-talkie. He didn’t want to admit to this, but Noah had never been a liar and he wasn’t starting now. “Brendan’s launched an immediate quarantine. No one in and no one out, until the place has been fumigated. Miss, I owe you an apology.”
    Eva lifted her head in response to the softly worded