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color me impressed. You looked like you were ready to handle yourself. To see it done. If I hadn’t seen the Councilman’s other guard, I might not have stopped you.” He would have. The lycans demanded Sage before them. But if they weren’t a factor, he could have let Lucy exact her revenge. Whatever Sage had done to her must have been a heinous enough crime.
    Lucy looked like the type of woman designed for a life of luxury—which she’d been given—instead of the one where she’d literally bloody her hands by murdering Sage.
    “How long have you been free?” he asked.
    “A few weeks.”
    “Weeks? Jesus . And this is how you spend the time. Plotting to get yourself killed.”
    “You sound like you don’t believe I can do it.”
    “You sound like you think you can,” he countered.
    “No choice,” she muttered. “I have to. Make a right here and then about a quarter of a mile up, we’ll see the house. Warning, it’s small.”
    The car rocked from side to side as they drove up the gravel path. Rocks crunched beneath the wheels, the rain no longer heavy enough to muffle the sound. He scrutinized the long driveway where boughs scraped over the car as they moved over the narrow pathway.
    The headlights spotlighted a very tiny cabin, probably not much bigger than a one-bedroom. If it had indoor plumbing, he’d be surprised. Still, it looked sturdy enough. The wildflowers growing at its perimeter weren’t overgrown with weeds, suggesting that someone spent time maintaining the place.
    “There’s a spare key around back. I’ll go get it,” Lucy said after he’d killed the engine. She peered up at the sky as if trying to count the individual drops of rain still coming down. They’d gotten through the worst of the storm, but a couple of stragglers fell from time to time.
    He watched her exit, managing to look like she belonged here despite the extravagant dress and updo hairstyle. Although he knew he should get out and do a cursory inspection of their surroundings, determine the place’s weaknesses and natural defenses, he couldn’t get himself to move. Not yet.
    Victor needed to study the sway of her hips as she walked, the elegance of her motions. He was transfixed by the delicate lines of her profile when she gazed into the distance. She used the beam of the headlights to tiptoe her way around the side of the building, and Victor found himself tilting his head to monitor her careful progress.
    He couldn’t believe that for the next few days, he’d somehow convinced her to give herself to him for his use. His fantasy. She would be his to touch and explore.
    His cock thickened, his teeth elongating. He wasn’t hungry for food yet, but something about her incensed that appetite. He’d been a fool to agree not to bite her when every instinct would want him to. But blood could be easily gotten. The embrace of an alluring woman eluded him. She now stood only a few yards away from him, and he would not blow this opportunity.
    Lucy returned to the front of the house only a minute later and with some difficulty, she inserted a key into the door. She angled her body to the side, just enough to grace him with a hesitant smile when the lock unlatched. After opening the door, she squinted in the direction of the car’s beam, held up her hands in a shrug, her face set in an are you coming? look and then went inside.
    For some reason, it amused him, and Victor exited with his own new smile. It took him only a few minutes to circle the outside of the small cabin, inspecting it for accessibility and defense. While it wouldn’t hold up against an attack, it could be defended with minor adjustments that he’d work on tomorrow evening. The chances of the lycans having followed him here bordered on infinitesimal, but he wasn’t going to take any chances.
    It’d been one hell of a long night, and he was tired of seeing it. Time to think and rejuvenate. His plans for Lucy didn’t go much beyond getting into her