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she knew he remembered, too.
    â€œSent your goons to do your dirty work?” she challenged, her voice strangely out of breath. She eased away from the car and smoothed her hands down her denim-clad thighs.
    He held her gaze, not sparing the two agents a glance. “Hardly. I don’t need help when it comes to doing my job. Or handling you.”
    â€œNo?” She waved her arms wide. “Then why the mass-scale alert?”
    â€œWhat do you mean?”
    She made a disgusted sound. “I know that every agent and lycan in town is gunning for me.”
    â€œDo you?” He didn’t bother hiding his surprise, cocking his head to the side. “And how is it you’re so informed?”
    She wasn’t about to explain Darius to him. Professing her alliance of sorts with a centuries-old lycan would be a bad idea right now. “Don’t you think I was bound to find out?”
    â€œUnless you have an informant, no. Has there been an attempt on your life yet?” His gaze slid from her to the area around them, as if he expected lycans to emerge from the bushes.
    â€œOther than these fools?”
    Lockhart puffed out his barrel chest. “Are we going to stand here chitchatting or finish the bitch?” His pale blue eyes were cold as frost.
    â€œYeah,” Davis murmured in agreement, shifting his small eyes along the houses lining the quiet street. “Shouldn’t we hurry up with this before any lycans show up? Let’s take her inside.”
    â€œYeah, releasing my identity wasn’t too clever,” Kit continued. “What’s wrong? Don’t trust yourselves to get the job done, so you recruited the enemy?” She nodded once, clucking her tongue in false sympathy. “Not very well thought out. What if some of you get killed because the lycans you sicced on me show up? I doubt they’ll exclude you from their plans if you’re here when they show up.”
    â€œIt wasn’t my idea,” Rafe said, and from his tone, he didn’t seem too pleased that her identity had been released to every lycan in town. His dark eyes gleamed down at her with a menacing light.
    â€œAppears to me your bosses aren’t confident you can do your job.”
    Rafe stepped toward her. “I don’t need help from anyone to handle you.”
    Kit assessed the three men, subtly shifting her weight, muscles tightening, preparing herself to act the moment one of them made a move toward her. She wouldn’t go inside the house willingly. That would be tantamount to handing them a knife and offering them her neck. Killing her wouldn’t be easy.
    Rafe took another step toward her, his full lips a grim line. She tensed, readying for a fight, knowing, with him, just how much of a challenge that would be. But this time, she wouldn’t let her body betray her.
    Suddenly Rafe stopped with the suddenness of a dead wind. His resolute gaze snapped away from her. A strange stillness came over him. A muscle along his jaw flexed wildly. Ever so slowly, he lifted his head, almost as if he smelled something on the air. From the way his nostrils flared, she imagined the smell wasn’t good.
    She followed the rapid progress of his dark eyes as they scanned the area around them, looking intently into the trees, the thick hedge of honeysuckle bushes separating her brother’s house from that of its neighbor.
    Then she heard it. Or rather, felt it.
    Silence.
    None of the usual sounds filled the air. No birds chirping, insects singing, or dogs barking. Even the faint breeze that had stirred the branches had now ceased altogether. The tiny hairs along her arms stood on end.
    â€œWe’re too late,” Rafe murmured.
    â€œToo late?” Lockhart questioned in a loud voice, discordant in the eerie silence. Idiot . “What are you talking about?”
    Rafe’s eyes swung back to Kit, hard and grim. She knew what he was going to say before she heard the