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didn’t
    want to leave her, and it surprised him that the reason he didn’t was because he didn’t care for
    Blackson. Riordan moved away but kept her in his sights. He looked at Mac when he laughed.
    “Mom is out front. She wants to know if you want her to stay with Stormy while you go to
    the office to work.” He started to ask him what he was talking about when he continued. “I think
    they’re under the impression that you don’t want her as your mate. It looks to me like if you had
    your way, she’d be in bed with you between her legs. Or am I wrong?”
    His dad saved him from having to answer, or kill Mac. He was having entirely too much fun
    at his expense. Everyone seemed to be doing that lately. He moved out to his mom, and she was
    standing next to Storm. Riordan moved closer to hear what the yelling was about.
    “You’ll do this or so help me, I’m going to be very upset with you.” Storm asked her if it
    would be more than she was now. “You bet your bottom dollar it will be. I will tear your bottom
    up, and then you’ll have something worth going to the hospital about.”
    “I don’t think that makes the least bit of sense.” Storm looked at him. “Is she always like
    this? Bossy to the point of you wanting to strangle her?”
    “I’m not going to answer that.” He winked at her. “You’re very beautiful when you’re
    pissed off, aren’t you?”
    He felt everyone turn to look at him, but for some reason, he didn’t really care what they
    thought of him at that moment. This woman…his woman…had done something that no one else
    had ever done. She’d stood up to a man with a gun and had saved his life. But he wasn’t stupid
    enough to think that she’d not shoot him too should he piss her off more.
    In the end, his mom bullied her into going. Storm stopped talking to him and his mom, but
    she did talk to Blackson. Apparently, Danny had called him the moment she’d had them go to
    the front of the shop. And it was a good thing, too. She wasn’t going to jail for what had
    happened today.
    Blackson grabbed him just before he was ready to go to his truck and follow the ambulance.
    He’d known that the man wasn’t human. He was a wolf, and more than likely Storm knew what
    he was as well. But when he took him in the pantry and closed the door, Riordan felt his cat stir
    along his skin.
    “She’s not going to come to you easily. You know that, right?” Riordan just nodded. “There
    is something else you should know. It’s not…she’s…I’m not sure how to say this without you
    leaping at my throat.”
    “Just say it.” The man nodded but didn’t speak. Riordan had all sorts of things running
    through his head. She was married. There were fifty kids in her life. The thoughts were going to
    be much worse than what it really was, he knew that, but he was still nervous. “I may attack now
    if you don’t spill it.”
    “When Stormy entered the service after turning eighteen, I was brought her test scores. They
    were off the charts. I mean, she’s got an IQ that most of them who work in the labs around the
    country would kill for. I immediately went to meet her.” He grinned at him. “As you can well
    imagine, that didn’t go over as well as I’d hoped. If you think she’s smart mouthed now, you
    should have seen her before we trained her. Caustic doesn’t even begin to tell you the way she
    spoke. But like I said, we trained her. It didn’t take much. Her intelligence alone was enough to
    keep us hopping, and her ability to adapt to any situation was what made her into the kind of
    soldier we needed and still need. She can speak nine languages fluently, and several more just in
    passing. She hears it once, just one time, and she can speak it back flawlessly. She worked for
    and still does work for a very covert group of men and women that come in and take charge
    when negotiations have all but failed.”
    “I’m not sure why you think I need to know this now. I