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assume it was injured and hungry. The blanket covering him will remain a mystery, explained away. Not everyone likes to deal with the cops. It’ll be fine.’
    She hadn’t even thought about the police, of what could happen to her or Sawyer. Jesus, she’d lost it, she’d risked losing the most important person in her world. She rubbed her hands over her face.
    ‘What if I left something behind, what if they…?’
    He gripped her thigh hard. ‘How did you get to that motel?’
    ‘I stole a car from Dan’s brother then dumped it when I got to the nearest bus station.’
    ‘Dan?’
    ‘My…Dan was my mate.’ Even saying it now felt wrong.
    His shoulders stiffened, but other than that he didn’t comment. And why would he? ‘So the car belonged to Mr Personality back there? The wolf driving the black SUV?’
    ‘No, that was Lance. He’s the youngest of the three brothers.’
    It had been a crazy risk. Colt was one terrifying male, but his car had been right outside her place with the keys in the ignition. If it hadn’t been for the wad of cash stashed in the glove compartment, she and Sawyer would have been forced to sleep rough. She hadn’t had time to go to the bank after she ran and was afraid Lance would somehow track her that way.
    His grip eased up and he released her. ‘Good thinking.’
    ‘No, I didn’t think. I’m such an idiot…I killed a man, Gabe…I…’
    ‘Stop.’
    That one word sliced through the enclosed space, cutting her off mid-sentence. She looked up at him. His eyes had changed to that of his beast and his fingers had tightened on the steering wheel again, until it creaked under the strain.
    ‘Nothing is going to happen to you.’
    It was a quietly spoken promise that had her pulse quickening and her stomach tightening. She didn’t know what to say, her vocal cords too tight to speak.
    He glanced at her. ‘You wouldn’t have been the first female he tried to abuse and you wouldn’t have been the last. He deserved what he got.’
    He looked away. ‘I would have made him suffer before he died. You did him a favour.’
    Gabe would have done that for her. Even after everything she’d done…everything she’d said to him.
    ‘Plus, you used an alias. Right, Tressa?’
    Oh God, he’d seen the alias.
    He hadn’t said it directly, but she knew. How else would he have known what room she was in? Heat hit her skin and not just her face. She was in the throes of a full body blush.
    ‘Right, Tressa?’ he growled.
    ‘Yes.’ She couldn’t look at him.
    When she’d walked into that place and that creep had asked for a name, Gabe’s had been the first to popped into her head. Just saying it had wrapped her in an invisible blanket of warmth and safety.
    It was a stupid thing to do. And now it had backfired on her.
    He was quiet after that, but the volatile emotionscoming from him didn’t let up. If anything they got more intense. Seeing him again, being this close to him was too much. So she closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. She doubted he fell for it but he also didn’t call her on it.
    A long time later, an hour at least, the SUV bumped over a rut in the road and she became aware of gravel crunching under the tyres.
    She sat up straighter. ‘Where are we?’
    ‘You finished sleeping then?’
    The corner of his mouth quirked up. Barely a grin, a mere shadow of the warm, sexy smiles he’d once given her, still it made her heart race a little faster.
    ‘Ah…yeah.’ Just then her stomach growled loudly.
    The half-smile was gone just like that. He scowled over at her.
    ‘When did you last eat?’
    ‘A decent meal? Close to three days ago. The food I had I kept for Sawyer. I didn’t want to leave the motel and I didn’t know how long it’d take for someone to come for us.’
    He opened the glove compartment and pulled out a couple of protein bars.
    ‘Eat these before you pass the hell out.’
    He was pissed at her, again. She didn’t argue, too damn hungry to, and