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couldn’t keep me under their thumbs?”
    The notion of his thumbs caressing her nipples instantly invaded Finn’s thoughts.
    “Baby-sitting you, Meara?” He gave a bitter laugh. “Guarding that sweet body of yours is more like it.” And he was definitely up to the task. He wouldn’t want anyone else to have that job.
    Her eyes widened fractionally. She had to know how hot she was.
    Eyes quickly narrowing, she blew out her breath. “Get out of here. Hunter had no right…”
    Time to set the story straight.
    Finn slid from the bed and stalked toward her. She stood her ground.
    He loved the challenge in her darkened eyes, the way she wouldn’t back down, no matter how determined he was to take charge of this situation and of her. “Hunter doesn’t know what this is about. By the time I reached California and discovered he had moved the pack here, it was already too late. Knowing he’d sometimes come to the resort to see his uncle, I chanced coming here. Or at least figured I’d get a location from your uncle as to where Hunter had relocated the pack.
    “But then I learned the pack had settled here and I’d missed seeing Hunter before he took off for Hawaii. Although I’ve called him on his cell phone, he must have it turned off because of the flight. In any event, you have one of two choices. Either I stay with you until he gets back, or I send you packing to be with them.”
    “On their honeymoon ?” The pitch of her voice rose with incredulity. “Are you kidding?”
    But he knew she had to realize something was really the matter, something more than Hunter wanting him to baby-sit her.
    “All right, so what is this all about?” she grudgingly asked.
    “Someone tried to murder Allan Rappaport.”
    “Allan?” Her voice was unsteady and her face turned ghostly pale. “Sweet Allan?”
    Before she collapsed, Finn seized her arm and made her sit on the end of the bed. “The assassin nearly succeeded. Just an inch or two lower, and Allan would have died from the bullet wound to his chest.” Even though lupus garous healed faster than humans, a strike to a major artery could make them bleed out before their bodies could heal. “Thankfully, he received treatment right away and survived. We’ve got some SEALs watching over him now.”
    Finn didn’t get why she would call the guy sweet, though. Allan was one of the roughest men on their team. At least he had been around the team members. Maybe he’d acted differently toward Meara when Finn hadn’t been around. That notion gnawed at him. He thought Hunter had made it clear he didn’t want any of his SEAL team members pursuing her. And Finn had been sure none of the guys had or he would have learned of it fairly quickly.
    She sure as hell could make a man forget himself.
    “And you thought… you thought the assassin was coming after Hunter?” she asked, very concerned now.
    “Yeah. I’ve warned Paul Cunningham, the other of our teammates, and the only one who’s left is Hunter.”
    “And you,” she said softly, frowning up at him.
    “True.” Although Finn didn’t really count himself as one of the hunted. He was the hunter. “I’ve ensured that one of your pack members, who’s a former military man and currently on your police force, will take the next flight to Hawaii to warn Hunter and watch his back.”
    She motioned to Finn’s clothes strewn on the floor and to the unmade bed. “So what’s this all supposed to be about?”
    “I’m your lover for now, until we stop this bastard or until Hunter returns to keep track of you.”
    Her lips parted in a totally sexy way, but then she frowned and pursed them. “Oh, no you’re not. No way am I going to let anyone think I’m mated with you.”
    “You’ll have to do your mate selection some other time, Meara. This is serious business.”
    She studied him for a minute and then frowned more deeply. “What makes you so certain this guy intends to target all of the men on the team? Maybe it