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“Invade our bedroo, and I’ll kill you”

“You’re not killing anyone If you were, you would have done it tonight” Ria stepped from the bathroom

Mercury swung around, and so inside him stilled instantly

She wasn’t pale or crying Her eyes glittered with irritation, and a flush of anger mounted her cheeks She was dressed in jeans and a bulky sweater and there was nothing to threaten whatever priht of her nakedness being revealed in front of the others

But she wasn’t happy with hi it in the look she shot him

“Hell,” Danethe knapsack?”

Rye gri room”

“Don’t worry” Dane was li bribe”

CHAPTER 13

Ria laid her bling on the cabinet It was quite a nice haul: several nearly perfect dia and a tiger’s-eye stone that swirled with ic and majesty

She slid the stones into a velvet bag, tied it off and tucked it into the pocket of her jeans, then flipped her sat phone closed and erased the speed dial set to go straight to Leo’s eency number Her threat to Dane Had the bribe not pleased her, she would have called and tattled to hell and back

She wasn’t mercenary It wasn’t the worth of the stones or even the stones themselves It was the fact that they seea Leo to catch theames herself, but she did have a bit of caution Dane had none

To say Mercury was upset over the paysin his throat And those tiny sparks of blue hadn’t completely left his eyes

Feral displaceh, and he had all the signs of it, but it was firmly under control Dane still had his heart in his chest, and Rye still had his head on his shoulders Ria was contenting herself with that even though she suspected Dane ht have lost more blood than ise

“Look at her, Rye” His tone was amused despite the pain in it “I’lass out”