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Mercury growled This could get on her nerves fast She sliced hi look and continued to stare He was obviously struggling toHe stood ramrod stiff between her and the other twoin its fierceness
“Or perhaps I don’t” She crossed her arainst the desk “Would so on?” she asked thes off a perfectly reasonable man and he returns pissed off to the point that he rips the ca me? I’m a little confused here”
Kane cursed Callan gri wild and merciless flashed in Mercury’s eyes That look should have made her wary, it shouldn’t have made her heart jump with excitement instead And it shouldn’t haveher back, growling out his demand that she touch her own breasts
But she could see where things were going here, and the why of it was beginning to piss her off She had expected someone to attempt to distract her for weeks now She hadn’t expected this But perhaps others had seen what she was only beginning to suspect herself Mercury could be a very habit-for weakness of hers
“Kane?” Mercury’s voice was tense, deep and so dark she almost shivered
“Yeah, Merc?” Kane asked warily
“Could you ensure that Ms Rodriquez is adequately protected when she returns to her cabin please? Shiloh Gage would perhaps be best to place within the house with her tonight”
She stared at him in surprise
“I’ll take care of that, Mercury,” Kane answered hih”
Mercury’s lips pulled back from his teeth as he turned to look at the other man Evidently, what Kane Tyler saw shocked him as much as it had shocked Ria moments before
“Tell Ely she has all she’s getting fro purposefully along the hall until, moments later, Ria heard a door slam, loudly
“Ms Rodriquez, I’ to ask nicely,” Callan said carefully “Please submit yourself to the labs below so Ely can take a few blood and saliva samples I promise, it should be relatively harmless”
“Like hell” She straightened, suddenly furious “What the hell did you do to hi to rape me?”
“HeMo you without your consent,” Kane informed her “I had a brief o to the labs I adoing on here, so to participate in, now is the time to say it”
To Kane Tyler’s credit, he didn’t appear to believe any such thing, but that didn’t keep it fro on? And how did they have the te so preposterous as Mercury Warrant atte so horrible?