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Sentinels need us now.”
    I need you. Mine. Mine. Mine.
    Primal instinct was beginning to take over Hunter’s brain, and his unstoppable need to make this woman his was beginning to beat at him painfully. “I can’t,” he rasped. He couldn’t make any woman his radiant .
    “I know you aren’t thrilled about having me as your mate, but I’m inside your head, Hunter. You’d give your life for your brothers or Kristoff, and they won’t win this battle without us being mated. I need to be at full power. I need to leave this place and join the fight. It’s time. Every piece of the puzzle needs to be in place for us to claim victory. We can go our separate ways or something if we regain balance. I promise you won’t be stuck with me forever.” Her voice was pleading, a tone that Hunter had yet to hear. He had a feeling that begging wasn’t a practice she did often…or ever.
    “You think I don’t want you?” Hunter answered, a low growl of protest forming in the back of his throat.
    “I know you don’t. We’re mismatched, but for some reason we need to…do it for the Sentinels.” Athena swallowed hard and started fidgeting next to him.
    Hunter realized that she was picking up the negatives in his thoughts, but wasn’t looking at the reason why he couldn’t mate with her. He was a drunk, a loser. His entire human and Sentinel lives had been spent with only one purpose:
    Kill. Kill. Kill.
    He heard the faint words in his head, a previously loud mantra he’d lived with for as long as he could remember.
    Strangely, a louder chant was drowning out those three words, replacing the need to slay Evils with an even greater urgency:
    Mine. Mine. Mine.
    His head fell back against the headboard with a loud thump as he thought about his brothers and Kristoff. If Athena was right, he would do anything to save them.
    I’m so screwed.
    His mating instinct steadily growing stronger, Hunter closed his eyes and tried to fight his primordial demon instinct to take his radiant , brand her as his. “I’ll do it,” he said stoically, knowing damn good and well that once she belonged to him, he’d probably never be able to let her go. She’d be stuck with him forever, and he wasn’t a pleasant man or demon. “You’ll end up hating me eventually. Most people do,” he warned her ominously, disliking the thought of her despising him more than he wanted to admit.
    “I won’t hate you. Thank you for making the sacrifice for the Sentinels,” she said solemnly.
    “Is it different than a normal bonding?” Hunter asked, realizing that when a goddess was involved, things were altered.
    “I don’t know,” Athena admitted softly. “I guess we’ll have to try it and find out once you’re healed. I’m sorry you have to do this.”
    “Don’t be sorry,” Hunter demanded. “It’s my choice.” Although she might not realize it, she was the sacrificial lamb in this particular scenario. As Hunter clenched his fists tightly by the side of his body to stop himself from touching her, he expelled a harsh breath, deciding he’d let her figure that out for herself.

“Y ou’re a what?” Hunter bellowed a few days later, sitting in Athena’s kitchen and eating an enormous breakfast Athena had manifested.
    She glared at him from across the table, hating the fact that her body reacted to Hunter’s blatant masculinity so readily. He was healed completely now, and his rugged handsomeness was difficult to ignore. The guy was definitely ripped, and his darkness drew her in ways she’d never experienced before. Maybe it was just the mating instinct, but she had the inexplicable desire to lighten his darkness, make him happy for the first time in his life. Hunter deserved that and more for the sacrifices he’d made in both his human and Sentinel lives.
    However, she’d had ample time to experience his irritating sarcasm and growly exterior. He might very well be a hard man to like if she wasn’t sharing his mind. Hunter was