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    It must have surprised him, because he shifted his balance. He didn’t move other than that.
    Like moving a damn mountain.
    “To quote a friend, I don’t have to tell you jack-shit ,” she hissed through clenched teeth. “Stop trying to bully me, Colt. It’s not working.”
    She turned and stomped her way back into her prison. It was her turn to slam the door.
     

Chapter Three
     
     
    Her high drama was wasted on the big brute when he pushed the door open, stalked up to her, grabbed her hand, and turned to walk out the room, all but dragging her behind him.
    “What the hell do you think you are doing?” Angelica dug in her heels, moved her center of gravity back, and refused to budge—well, she tried. Colt was stronger, so it was inevitable that he managed to drag her along anyway. She nearly landed on her backside again when he jerked.
    “I don’t have to explain myself to you, Gelibean, but this time I will tell you. We have to go to the council hall.” He didn’t even turn his head to talk to her. He kept dragging her towards the front door.
    The wind howled around the cabin again with such force that Angelica winced.
    “Colt, if you take me out in that, only wearing this dress, I will freeze before you’ve dragged me three steps.”
    He stopped and turned his head to look at her. Her feet were bare, and all she was wearing was the white flowing dress they had given her.
    “Stay here.” The order was implicit, and Angelica knew better than to disobey.
    He marched back into her prison and returned with her well-worn shoes and the bearskin blanket. He tossed the shoes at her feet. “Put them on.”
    Angelica bent and slipped the shoes on her feet, though they weren’t meant for this type of climate, and she could thank her phoenix blood for not having lost her toes to frostbite already.
    When she straightened, Colt stepped behind her and put the bearskin blanket around her shoulders.
    “Wow,” she exclaimed, sarcasm dripping from her tone. “Look at me, I’m a barbarian princess.”
    Colt snorted. “You aren’t a good enough breed to be a princess or a barbarian.”
    Angelica gasped. “And you don’t know anything about me. So you can’t say that.”
    He ignored her and grabbed her hand again. Angelica considered forcing him to drag her. The thought was so tempting, but she liked her arm in its socket, so she kept up with him as he opened the door and went down the steps.
    The cold knocked her breath away, and with a gasp, she tried to fill her lungs again. Snow spun around her in dervishes of white and the wind bit through her as if she was frail
    “Oh, my gods, it’s…” Her teeth were already chattering.
    “Wrap the bearskin tighter, and move faster.” Colt was leaning into the wind, his whole body tense.
    He feels the cold, too. Good!
    Some spiteful part of her rejoiced. Why should she suffer alone?
    Every step was torture, and if Colt hadn’t been holding on to her hand in a death grip, Angelica was sure she the wind would have dragged her off her feet more than once.
    “Why are we even leaving the cabin in this weather?” she called out over the screaming wind.
    He didn’t answer.
    “Colt.”
    He turned his head enough to say, “Shut up and move, Geli. We can chat later.”
    “I am moving,” she muttered, but she knew he wouldn’t have heard her.
    “Then move faster.”
    How did he hear me?
    Then, she remembered his sense of hearing was far more acute than any normal person. He was a Therin shifter. Her hearing wasn’t as good, because her genetics made her less of a shifter and more of a phoenix.
    If felt like an eternity, but soon they reached a large building and Colt led her upstairs. Fighting the door in the wind, he pushed her inside. She stumbled, but caught her balance and stopped, closing her eyes in the bliss that the warmth of the building made her feel.
    Colt slammed into her back as he wrestled the door closed and took a step backwards. She lost her