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too much like an adult who’d lost hispatience with an unruly teen, and she felt her fury tip from emotion...right into action. Bathed in a fiery shower of sparks, she reached behind her and whipped out the gun she always kept tucked against her lower back when she was outside on her own. Just because she didn’t need the weapon didn’t mean it didn’t come in handy. Especially when dealing with rowdy human males who wandered onto her land,thinking they could cause trouble with the woman who lived there on her own. And right now, it felt unbelievably sweet to point the gleaming barrel directly at Cian Hennessey’s no-good heart.
    He shot her a dry look and slowly arched one of his raven-black brows. “It’s a pretty toy,” he drawled, the lazy way he crossed his muscular arms over his chest telling her he didn’t believe for onesecond that she’d shoot him. “But you know that bullets won’t kill me, Sayre.”
    “They might not kill you, but they’ll hurt like a bitch.”
    “You really think I could believe that you’d pull the trigger? You’re a healer, not a—”
    “Seriously?” she laughed, cutting him off as she unlocked the safety with a practiced flick of her thumb. “You might have watched me grow up, Cian, but don’tfor an instant think that you know what I’m capable of as a woman. I’ve had to deal with more crap since you left than you could ever imagine. People change.
I’ve
changed. So when I pull a gun out, you can bet your ass that I plan to use it.”
    His sexy mouth pressed into a hard, irritated, challenging line. “Then do it.”
    She aimed for less than an inch from the toe of his right boot,and fired a perfect shot.
    “Shit!” he cursed, jumping back a step. “What the hell, woman? Have you lost your bloody mind?”
    “I told you I’d do it.” She kept her tone hard and cold, determined to make him see that she meant business, and slowly raised her aim. “So tell me, Cian. Do you really want to play this game?”
    He worked his jaw for a few seconds, no doubt cursing her to helland back. Then his scowl smoothed out, and his eyes narrowed to the point that it was impossible to read the look in them. Whatever he was thinking as he calmly turned on his heel and headed back to his car—the back view of his tall, powerful body damn near as mouthwatering as the front—was something he didn’t want her to pick up on. And
that
made her nervous.
    When she called his name out,just as he was opening his car door, he looked back at her over his broad shoulder, and she gave him a sharp, icy smile. “If you like your body without any extra holes in it,
don’t
bother coming back.”

Chapter 3
    K nowing Sayre needed some time to calm down, Cian climbed back into the Audi. He drove nearly a quarter of a mile down the mountain, then pulled over into a flat grassy area on the side of the road and parked. Though he never would have believed it, the beautiful little witch
had
been ready to put a freaking bullet in him. He’d have been incredibly proud over the wayshe’d stood up for herself, if her target had been anything other than his own body...and the circumstances weren’t so serious.
    But they were, which was why there was no way in hell he was tucking his tail between his legs and running. This was nothing but a change in strategy, and a good hunter always knew when to step back and regroup. So while he might have let her think she’d won thefirst round, he was already focused on the second, determined to be the one who came out on top in the end.
    On top of
her
, you mean
, the wolf’s gravelly voice rumbled in his head, and he rolled his eyes at the beast’s wishful thinking. Not that it wouldn’t have been nice—and by nice he meant fucking exceptional—but he knew that sex was the last damn thing he could afford to think about inconnection with Sayre. Too much of that already took place when he finally allowed himself to sleep.
    Though he’d tried not to, Cian had