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I lowered the garage door and stepped into my kitchen A scent floated past me on the draft I inhaled it and froze It sy sweat andevery nerve on high alert
Ji, "Mate!" at rip
Ji for me In my wildest dreams, I would walk into the room and he would kiss me The picture was so vivid in ly blind girl, snap out of it Let’s try to be less pathetic Jim was here because Kasen snitched on me, or because he needed some obscure scroll identified He wasn’t here to makeroom "Jim?"
No answer
The scent was hot and alive He was still here, or he had been here just a second ago
"Ji
Fine I followed the scent,room, hallway, bathroom, bedrooods What if I walked in and he was naked on ht there and never get it back, whatever "it" was
Get a grip, get a grip, get a grip I padded into the bedrooainst the wall on the floor His eyes were closed He wore black jeans and a black turtleneck, a couple of shades darker than his skin His black hair was cut short His leather jacket lay on the floor in a heap Asleep
I tiptoed into the room and crouched by him
He looked so peaceful here Usually Jim scowled, just to remind people that he was Serious and Iht noith his head tilted back and his face relaxed, he was beautiful I wanted to sit on the floor next to hile up into the crook of his arhed and touched his forehead with er "Hey, you Wake up"
He didn’t move
Odd Usually Jim woke up if a pin dropped half a mile away Most shapeshifters did, but Jim especially He oversaw security for the Pack and he exhibited paranoid tendencies The only time he would pass out like this hen he was injured or exhausted fro too many times and Lyc-V shut his brain down to conserve resources and make repairs I smelled no blood and Jim’s clothes were still on But if he had passed out after shifting, he’d be on ave rabbed his shoulder and shook him "Jim! Wake up Wake Up"
His eyes snapped open His dark hand grabbed ed off the floor, dark eyes pissed off "You were gone Dali Harimau, where were you?"
I stood up and crossedmy arms was easy "I was out You’re not my daddy, Jim I don’t have to check in with you before I leave reen sheen rolled over Jim’s eyes "Dali, where were you?"
He had pulled the alpha card You didn’t argue when his eyes lit up "I was racing on Buzzard There Happy now?"
He exhaled "Good"
Good? Since asany sense"
"You didn’t check your o to the house?"
"What house? I told you I just got home"
Jim’s eyes di to wipe so off "I need your help"
JIM SAT INtea like a deood for you"
Jiuest and turned up my nose like that at the tea my hostess served me, my h you have no ift of tea and you make funny faces at it"
"Do you want reat?"
"No, I want you to say ‘thank you’ and tell rim "The northeastern office on Dunwoody Road didn’t report in on Tuesday I was out doing other things, so Johanna waited twenty-four hours and sent a scout in to check on the He clai near it"
"Who was it?"
"Garrett"
Garrett was lazy, but he wasn’t a coward Maybe there was so bad in the house "You went there yourself, didn’t you?"
Jio that way for an errand anyway"
I rolled my eyes "You didn’t take anybody with you?"
He looked at me like I had insulted hio with him, oh no
"What happened?"
"I went to the office The place looked empty The ere covered with dirt, like nobody had been there for years"