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have a feeling they will overbook the assignment, knowing they will lose some people along the way.”
    “We’ll be taking those back roads and shortcuts you mentioned.” Bethany caught her breath when his eyes locked on to hers. They were a soft amber now, and she was mesmerized.
    “Go on,” he said.
    Bethany tried to remember her train of thought. “I’m going to need a bodyguard.”
    He looked at her skeptically.
    “Look, you protect me there and back. If you still don’t think your debt is paid for your sister, then you can keep doing it until we find my brother. You keep me alive. I’ll do the Tech to break into the lab. We come back rich, and you can help me find my brother if he’s not at the lab, and then we’re even. You don’t have to sleep with me again.”
    “What if I want to?”
    “That would be different,” Bethany said. “It would make all the difference in the world. I don’t want this”—she motioned to the messed-up sheets—”to be about paying a debt.”
    “So let me get this straight. In order to balance my debt for Lisa, you’re going to provide Tech when we investigate those labs. On the way to California, I’m to act as your bodyguard and then help you find your brother. Hmmm, I think you now owe me. Maybe, you should offer me your body?” He waggled his eyebrows.
    She didn’t rise to the bait. “If you want my help in the labs, it’s in your best interest to keep me alive. For my silence for not telling anyone about the labs, you’re helping me find my brother.”
    “For your silence about the labs, I don’t kill you,” he pointed out.
    “Not a good way to handle negotiations. Besides, if we’re going to be mates, we’ll have to sleep with each other. Keep me alive and find Daniel and Lisa’s debt is paid and I’ll help you break into the lab. Do we have a deal?”
    “And sex?” he said. “You’ll be my mate to get your chief to agree?”
    It was crazy. She barely knew him. But she was trusting him to get her to California and find Daniel. She’d be his mate just to get fucked like this every night. Bethany nodded. “You’ll have to explain to me more about the mate stuff.”
    “Later,” he said. “Buy me a set of clothes and some breakfast, and we have a deal.”
    “Deal.” Bethany got up. “Pleasure doing business with you.”
    “Pleasure was all mine.”
    “No, it wasn’t,” she said, blowing him a kiss as she headed for the showers.
    She wasn’t surprised when he joined her a few moments later.
    “The hot water is decadent,” he said.
    “Sybarite,” Bethany teased.
    He murmured in agreement, turning her around so he could massage shampoo into her hair without getting it into her eyes. His fingers were strong but gentle. Bethany just wanted to float away in bliss, but they were running out of their allotted shower time. After rinsing off her hair, she stepped out of the shower and toweled off. He did the same and followed her back to her room. A few people were waiting for the showers and traded knowing looks as Bethany blushed and gripped the towel tighter around her body. Lucas hung up his towel and walked without a hint of embarrassment.
    Bethany tested the dryness of the clothes she’d hung out the night before. They were a little chilly but dry enough to wear. She pulled them on while Lucas got back into bed.
    “I’ll run out and get you some clothes.”
    “No hurry.” He smiled at her lazily.
    “Anything else you need me to do?”
    Lucas ran a hand through his hair, and Bethany tracked the play of muscles on his arms. “I need you to find and approach the financiers with us as part of your team. Lisa and I will keep our animal forms. Lewis and Clark won’t care who you bring with you, as long as you go. They need Techs. They don’t think enough of Shifters to want to see us in person.”
    “Lewis and Clark?” Bethany asked. “I don’t think that’s their real names.”
    “They can call themselves Adam and Eve, for all I