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somewhere else to stay, before you get on his permanent bad side.  Trust
me.”
    She
did trust him.  …Which was why she wasn’t going anywhere.  “Why doesn’t the
sheriff like you?”  She asked, quietly.  “I’m sorry, but you’re going to have
to explain it, because it’s not obvious to me, Cade.”
    Deke
said something in their language.
    Cade
shook his head.  “That’s ridiculous.  How the hell could she miss it?”
    “I
don’t know, but she has.  Watch.”  He turned to arch a brow at Addy.  “What is
Cade?”
    She
squinted.  “An asshole?”
    “Besides
that.”
    “A
big asshole?”
    “Besides
that.”
    Damn
it, she hated guessing games.  “Ummm….”
    “You
must know.”  Cade watched her intently, waiting for her to say whatever it was
he wanted her to say.  “You must .”
    “Uh…”
 She stared up at his perfect form and tried to think of an adjective besides
“lickable.”  Geez, he was pretty.  Looking at him really did make her a
scatterbrain.  “A tall asshole?”
    That
clearly wasn’t the description they were looking for.  Cade slapped a palm over
his face and muttered out a stream of oaths.
    “See?” 
Deke glanced back at him.  “She has no idea.  You’d better tell her now ,
before you get any deeper.  And be fucking soft about it, so you don’t
scare her away.”  Deke glanced over at Addy with a “remember what we talked
about earlier” glower.  “I’d better be right about you, woman.”  He muttered
and went stalking out of the bar, because the Westins were a “stalking out”
kind of family.
    Addy
rolled her eyes.  Deke loved his brother, but he really needed to chill out. 
“Are you sure there isn’t any coffee around here?  If we’re going to play
charades next, I’m going to need some fortification.”
    Cade
didn’t appreciate that remark.  “Can’t you take this seriously?”  He was
psyching himself up to reveal something horrible.  She could tell.  “I know
it’s difficult for you, but try to focus on what I’m about to say.  It’s important. ”
    Addy
hated to see him so upset.  She was trying to keep her distance from Cade, but
she still sort of… liked the guy.  In fact, he was one part of her life
that wasn’t a complete mess.  Without Cade, she’d be in even worse trouble than
she currently was and it was hard to imagine being in even worse trouble than
Addy currently was.  Cade was shielding her from snow, and starvation, and sex
crazed miners.  He was like a superhero, keeping her safe and expecting nothing
in return.
    Well,
except maybe the sixty gold pieces that she wouldn’t be paying him.
    “Look,
no matter what you have to tell me, I’ve dealt with way worse news
lately.”  Addy assured him.  With “Surprise, you’re a victim of time travel!”
as her baseline for bad news, she wasn’t too worried about Cade’s big secret. 
“It’ll be fine.  I promise you.  Just spit it out.”
    He
snorted at that, like he didn’t believe her.  “Before you say that, you should
know,” Cade took a deep breath, like he was bracing himself, “my mother was a
Voltyn.”
    Addy
blinked.  Whatever she’d been expecting him to reveal, that hadn’t been it. 
“…oh.”  Deke had said that word earlier, but it still meant exactly nothing to
her.  What the hell was a Voltyn, aside from a big robot lion?  “Okay.”
    Black
brows drew together, like her blank response confused him.  “I am half
Voltyn.”  Cade prompted.  “That’s why the sheriff hates me and why he’s already
suspicious of you.  The Voltyn are not thought well of in these parts.  Or in any parts.”
    Addy
had no idea what he was talking about.  “Well, thanks for telling me, but my
parts are fine with Voltron.  I watched the cartoon all the time, as a kid.”
    Cade’s
jaw sagged at the breezy words.  “Vol tyn .”  He corrected, studying her
with increased frustration.  “There is no such word as Vol tron .