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they would mistake her for
prey, and all her hard work would be shot.
    “He’s right. You shouldn’t go alone. Being near another
shifter will help.” Taggert didn’t offer anything else, still tightfisted with
his words as if expecting a reprisal for daring to speak.
    “That’s not possible at the moment, and I’m needed at the
crime scene.” Though no one left her alone in the last few days, no one dared
get close to her, either, for fear she would rip out their throat.
    She couldn’t say they were mistaken.
    So they sat back and watched her like some toddler. “I’ll be
fine.”
    Griffin’s brow furrowed over those brilliant eyes of his,
slowly crossing his arms. “Take him.”
    Obstinate ass. As if he even got a say in what she did. The
suspicion in his eyes let her know she wasn’t going to get away with a pat
answer. She understood. If anything happened to her, his meal ticket was gone. Taggert
looked willing, but she couldn’t take the chance, not until the conclave got
their claws out of his hide.
    Fiddling with the envelope, she blurted out the reason.
“He’s technically still a slave.”
    She carefully tugged a small cord of energy teeming in the
walls of the house and twined it between her fingers. The energy doused the
desire that had been creeping over her. If Griffin so much as lifted a finger
against what was hers, she would rip away his consciousness and dump his
unattended body on the pack’s doorstep without a hint of remorse.
    Griffin’s start of surprise showed on his face, the first
genuine emotion she saw since the hunt that nearly killed them. “But...” He
lifted a hand and let it drop. “The collar.”
    Raven pulled more electricity from the house, the sting of
it welcome as the last drop of mounting desire washed out of her completely. “I
didn’t like it. It caused him pain, and it was my job to protect him.”
    She didn’t blink as she waited for him to process the
information. When he just stared at her, all the energy she’d compiled slowly dissipated,
and her wolf trotted to the surface in response to the curiosity of his animal.
She nearly whimpered when the heat began to build under her skin again.
    “He can’t leave the house, not until we face the conclave. I
can’t risk losing him without ever having claimed him.”
    Not like she’d lost Jackson.
    The scent of cedar intensified, drawing her attention back
to Griffin.
    His scent.
    Wildness poured off him, a wickedness that urged her not to
think, not to fight the demands of her animals. The temptation he presented was
a dangerous lure for someone like her, someone who held more than one beast. She
concentrated on suppressing her wolf as it fought to refuse her command.
    That’s when she realized Griffin was doing something that
riled up her animals, and she didn’t know enough to find out what the hell kind
of game he was playing.
    Her animals might be pesky, stubborn beyond belief, but they
were hers. She couldn’t allow Griffin to learn she held multiple strands of
shifter DNA. The information was too valuable. According to the pack, she was
an impossibility.
    Well, she would be but for a little thing of being
engineered.
    He could trade her secret to get his pack status back, and
she couldn’t allow that to happen.
    The shadows at the center of her core shifted, and all the
animals vanished as coldness seeped into her chest. Her lungs felt weighted as
crystals formed, her breath freezing her throat. A creature lifted its head,
watching from the darkness, sensing something different about Griffin. Something
almost feral. She was pathetically grateful when the creature didn’t venture
any closer.
    Silence rang loud in the hallway, both sets of male eyes
locked on her in an uncanny way that felt devouring.
    “I’ll go with you.”
    Raven blinked in surprise at Griffin’s offer, and the spell
woven around them snapped. “We already agreed that you should remain hidden.”  
    The unwarranted offer only