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her, handing over her phone. “He’s on his way. Didn’t sound happy.”
    She wouldn’t be either. “Remember, you never saw her.”
    Pain flashed through both of them and Lennox started to reach a hand out, to touch their faces and stopped herself. Her hands curled into fists.
    “Whoever did this...” Tegan started and she shook her head.
    “Later. When I have sleep and food in me, but we will talk.”
    They both looked at her, the shared pain, grief, wonder, it was all too much. Pulling away, Lennox headed back over to her car, and leaned against it, eyes closed. There was nothing left to do but wait. Wait, and hope she’d done her job and no one would suspect a thing.
    “Should we be outraged you won’t let us inside?”
    A small smile tugged at her lips. They deserved creativity points. “What would you be doing if I said don’t go in there?”
    “We’d know,” Tegan whispered softly, his voice so ripe with pain it made her heart hurt. Damn. Do not start caring for them, she told herself. Sympathy was one thing, but even that needed a good strong leash and a firm hand. Lennox needed to reel her emotions back in.
    When all this was said and done, she needed to be able to walk away.
    “Then know.” Her shoulders lifted in a shrug. “Act like that. Make it feel real. I didn’t let you in, you never saw her, but you know.”
    Fingertips brushed her cheek, gentle. A hand curved down to cup her chin. She couldn’t tell which one it was, not until the soft press of lips met hers. A tongue touched the slit between her lips. Fragile, tentative, and it broke her down faster than force ever would have. Lennox caved and let him in, kissing him back. She reached out and grabbed Tegan’s shirt and drew him close.
    Her fingertips brushed the heated skin of his neck, running over the ridge of a scar. It disappeared under his shirt, but she traced it with her free hand, caressing the rough edge of an old wound, exploring. A groan roused through him, desperate and he crowded closer. His kiss came slow and tender. Aching. And she held him close because it felt right. The way his shoulders sagged and he deepened the kiss told her it was the right choice.
    Tegan needed this.
    The car rocked as Kanon leaned against it, but he didn’t stop them. Didn’t touch her, even as she held Tegan against her. When he pulled back Lennox let him go, her hands still on his chest when she heard distant thrum of a car coming up the road.
    “Company,” Tegan said.
    Kanon gave a low grunt of acknowledgement, his attention focused down the drive. He didn’t look tense or jealous. A normal man would have been jealous, right? If they were interested. Tegan’s hand was still on her hip, the three of them staring down the drive when Walker pulled up, Dade in the passenger seat.
    So he hadn’t dismissed her after all.
    Which meant Walker was coming into this scene not quite sure he trusted Lennox. Track record or not, she was fraternizing with the enemy. Both Hounds glanced at Tegan’s closeness, his hand on her hip. Tegan started to pull away when she caught his hand and held him there, unable to stop the hackles threatening to rise.
    The accusation in their eyes made her want to bare her teeth.
    Part of her couldn’t blame them. Had she been in their shoes staring at another ridgeback, she’d have the same look of disgust in her eye. It didn’t make it any easier to bear. No. If anything the scorn in their eyes made her dog want to crawl out of her skin and mark territory.
    Mine . If they didn’t like it, they could suck it up and leave.
    Instead she lifted Tegan’s hand, brushed a kiss across his knuckles and let him go. She ran a hand across Kanon’s arm, gentle, but there. He needed the sympathy too. Sesarina Dade stiffened, her lips curled back in a snarl, but Lennox disregarded her.
    Not a threat , her body language said. Dade wasn’t the big dog on the block and Lennox wasn’t about to treat her like anything more than an