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He pulled his arrip “Don’t let ain,” he warned her “The pain you dealt her tonight, deliberately, was uncalled for You touched what you knehat the aniain, Alaiya, harain, and what I did in those labs the day when they tolddetail, how you supposedly died, will look like fun and games Do we understand each other?”

She paled, staring back at him with eyes that flickered with fear now

“You were part of my pride,” he reminded her “And admittedly, the woman I would have taken asup must have an error Or some anomaly You are not my mate”

“How can you say that?” she whispered

Mercury could feel the anie in his head The hor it hard to think past the haze of lust consu him now

This had to be dealt with No matter the distaste that filled him

“I say it very easily,” he growled “I was pride leader then In those labs, you were my responsibility You were my woman, just as the other female was mine as well I was an aniuided me, and the animal needed to mate It was that si the animal there Powerful Honorable The animal inside Callan blended perfectly with theAnd Callan ruled

As powerful as Mercury knew himself to be now, knew his animal to be, he had no desire for the responsibilities that came with the pride leader position

“You’re Callan’s responsibility now Perhaps he can deal with you”

“I won’t let that bitch take you”

The words were no sooner out of her mouth than the ani, but definitely threatening

She gasped, fear finally contorting her expression as Mercury leaned close to her and inhaled “The smell of the men you’ve lain with perreed, the maliciousness of who and what you are, sicken s to another enrages ain, and I’ll not be able to help myself, Alaiya I will kill you No one, neither man nor woman, threatens what’s mine Do you comprehend me?”

Her eyes locked with his, the need to challenge his power flickering within her gaze as his hand tightened around her throat and he growled in warning

“Yes” Her eyes lowered, went to his shoulder Acknowledgth filled her scent now, as did her subenetics, the strength he knew she held, the qualities that had made her survive, he respected The woman, he would never trust

He jerked his hand back from her and turned back to Callan and Jonas The two ht for