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realisation that my own scent was all wrong to hit him.   Maybe I could get away before I had to answer any questions about it.  And then I’d go and hide in a cave for the rest of my pitiful existence.  Isn’t that what dragons did anyway?  The silver needles were in holding my hair together at the back; if I could just reach out and grab one of them…I strained and just came up against the steel of his muscles.   His face swam forward and he looked me directly in the eyes, then he started to lean in forward until our noses were almost touching.  My heart was banging painfully against my ribcage and the fire inside me changed somehow.  It was transforming from an angry, scared, attack mode heat to something altogether more consuming, more passionate, more…
    A door to my right swung open and a voice suddenly filled the room.  “My Lord Alpha!  There’s an intruder somewhere in the building, we need to –“
    Corrigan turned and snarled at the voice, the owner of which immediately backed away with abject groveling apologies.  I rolled my eyes.  Not much had changed in the Brethren then.
    The interruption had at least allowed me to regain some of my ragged emotions.  He’d obviously not noticed that I smelled like a human yet.  I had no idea why not but I had to keep my fingers crossed that it stayed that way.  Maybe he had a cold.  I cleared my throat.  “My Lord Alpha, I believe I mentioned earlier that I may have been exposed to some kind of, um, disease, on my way here.  I suggest you back away as it could very well be lethal.”
    Corrigan stilled for a moment, his grip on my wrists tightening until I winced in pain.  “What kind of disease?”
    He’d fallen for that?  Clearly the Lord Alpha wasn’t as intelligent as I’d once thought.  I widened my eyes to convey the horror even more dramatically.  “A terrible, terrible one.  It makes all your hair and teeth fall out and your skin turn green.  Then it starts to attack your nervous system making you throw up violently.”  I gestured to the remains of my earlier lunch now deposited in a sticky mess on his polished floor.  “As you see.  So you should stay away from me.  I’m sure it’s incredibly contagious.”
    He appeared to relax infinitesimally and growled at me.  “I’ll take my chances.”  His slid his hands from my wrists up to my arms and gripped painfully.  “Now tell me where you’ve been, why you ran away and how you got here.  In that order.”
    “I’m a rogue, my Lord, ” I spat.  “I don’t have to answer to you anymore.”
    “Funny,” he said softly, “I don’t think you ever answered to me, even when we first met.”  Tell me now. 
    He was using his Voice to command me.  This was too easy.  I looked into his emerald green eyes and stated firmly,  “No.” 
    I was pretty sure that once shifters went rogue, their alpha’s Voice no longer worked on them so I could avoid having to pretend that I was compelled to answer.  What it did mean as well was that Corrigan still thought I was shifter, lack of shifter scent or not. I’d worry about the why later, right now I was just relieved.  For his part, however, he wasn’t as impressed at my bravura as I was, and he pulled his right hand away from my arm and slammed it around my throat, choking the breath out of me. 
    “Mackenzie, you need to start talking before I rip it out of you.”
    My bloodfire flickered back into its usual action at the violence.  I sent a quick thank you to whoever was looking down on me for that small mercy. Corrigan had moved enough that I could get some purchase with my legs so I pulled my knee up as hard as I could and shoved with every ounce of strength I had into his groin.  He immediately let his grip loosen from around my neck and gasped in pain.  I managed to move away from him and the wall, and into the centre of the room.
    Corrigan rotated round and glared at me furiously.  He was obviously still in