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to her earlobe, down her neck, and into her cleavage. He half expected her to push him away, but
she arched into him and clasped her hands together behind his head. Her moans sent shivers over
his body.
When she pushed at his chest, he paused and looked down into her face. Her shaky breaths and
deep rose lips tempted him.
We shouldn t be doing this here. She panted.
Your place or mine?
She shook her head. I can t just leave, Chase. Reason seemed to be returning, to his
disappointment. She wriggled free of his hold and stepped back to straighten her clothing and her
hair. I meant what I said. Tuesday night was the one and only time we have sex.
He clenched his fists. He had thought mentioning the other woman would push her into accepting
him as her lover, that she would give in to keep him from sleeping with someone else. Maybe he was
the only one of the two of them feeling out of control. The knowledge ticked him off.
I had the sense that you were trying to hide someone in there from me. When she stiffened, he
knew he was right. Who was it? The woman with the red hair?
She wrinkled her nose. Cam? Of course not. She s my best friend. And you re mistaken. There s no
one special in there, that is, no one that would interest you. I have to go.
Lori? Honey?
Honey? Chase had been still mostly in the shadows. He had heard the man coming an instant before
he called out to Lori, and Chase had stepped back farther to keep from being spotted. But why did
this man call her honey ? It sounded too familiar, unlike the endearments older people called
anyone younger than themselves.
Chase glanced at Lori, who hadn t moved a muscle. So that was it. This man was the one she didn t
want him to see. Chase didn t follow humans too closely. However, Stevens did. If the man was
influential or in the public eye in any way, Stevens would know who he was. Having committed the
man s face to memory, Chase stepped deeper into the trees.
This isn t over, Lori. I will have you again. It s what you and I both want, and I do enjoy a good
hunt!
Chapter Eight
Lori screwed up her third toe for the fourth time and screeched before she tossed the nail polish,
along with the used cotton balls, into the trash. She slumped on her stool and rested her head on the
counter in front of her.
Damn, stupid idiot! Asshole! Scouring her mind for more insults to describe Chase, she squeezed
her eyes shut and willed the longing inside her to go away.
Ma am?
What! she screamed and then calmed herself. Oh, sorry. She plastered on a smile. May I help
you?
The customer looked doubtful, but he rested his books in front of Lori anyway. She rang the items
up and sent him on his way. After the door clicked closed behind him, she glanced at the clock. A
good twenty minutes after midnight. Wonderful. She considered calling Tenchow and telling him
she was sick and needed to go home early. As he had done before, he would probably tell her to
close up early.
In the act of reaching for the phone, she stopped. Unlike her, the guy running the Easy Mart needed
this job. He had said it was his second in order to cover all the expenses of having a family to
support. Another sigh escaped her. Damn.
Shuffling around the store, placing new books in their proper position on the shelves, Lori thought
of her boss. He was human, but his conjoined shops primarily served shifters. There were those who
called him a shifter-lover, meant in the most derogatory way.
But what of her? She had never really doubted the rightness of her father s actions, influencing those
with the power to pass shifter-tracking laws. Even now, with all the division between the two
factions, she felt it was a necessary move. Many of the shifters were civilized only because they had
been forced to be. And Chase didn t seem less so. In fact, it had been the feral nature beneath the
cultured professor facade that had drawn her to him. Now, having been intimate with him, having
talked to him, how could she not view his kind as real people who had inalienable rights just as the
humans did?
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