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though.
    “The Director said they’d call me in on cases where they thought I’d be useful.”
    Lucen rolled his eyes. “That’s unhelpfully vague.”
    I didn’t bother responding. Tiredness was overcoming me again, and my annoyance with the Gryphons killed off any remaining desire I had for Lucen. Instead of sex, I wanted to hit someone.
    Lucen must have sensed what I was feeling because his hands appeared on my arms as I started to put on my jeans. Hello, lust, again. That didn’t take much. “I’m not mad at you, Jess. I’m furious at them.”
    “So am I, as you can obviously tell. Olivia—Director Lee—said they could charge me with endangering humanity. You think they can?”
    “They can charge you with anything. Making it stick is another matter, but I doubt any jury of your peers is going to be too sympathetic. They’ll hear you traded souls, and it won’t matter what the details are.”
    A jury of my peers. For the hundredth time, I considered telling Lucen the truth about me. That I was a freak who didn’t have any peers. But something stopped me. While I didn’t believe he’d call me an abomination like the goblin Dom had, I wasn’t eager to find out.
    “So I’ll do this,” I said. “How bad can it be? I used to want to be a Gryphon.”
    Lucen wrapped his arms around me and kissed my neck, and I was so done thinking about Gryphons. “I was very happy the day you realized they don’t deserve you, little siren. Don’t let them change your mind. I waited ten years for you. I refuse to let them turn you into my enemy.”
    “Believe me, I know who my enemies are.” I touched my lips to his. Every nerve from my tongue to my feet came to attention. “Look on the bright side. Isn’t it every satyr’s dream to bed a Gryphon?”
    Lucen laughed, though the lines around his eyes made it clear he was not entirely amused by the situation. “I hope you get a uniform. Because you will definitely need to wear it for me if you do.”

Chapter Three
    I wasn’t sure what time Lucen joined me in his bed, but it was well after I fell asleep. So when a god-awful noise woke me up, I had a momentary panic attack. His arm was over me, and I couldn’t move.
    “Is that your phone?” Lucen murmured into my hair.
    Mentally half asleep, I had to think about it. “Shit. Yes.” I slid over to the edge of the bed and nearly tumbled onto the floor in an effort to reach it in time.
    The clock on the nightstand told me it was only nine in the morning. In other words, way too early to be awakened when I hadn’t gotten to sleep until almost four.
    I swore at the number on my caller ID and picked up right before the phone switched over to voicemail. “Yeah?”
    “Jessica, good morning. I hope I didn’t wake you.”
    If I’d wanted to punch Olivia Lee yesterday, it was nothing compared to what I wanted to do to her now. I wasn’t supposed to report in to Headquarters for my orientation until this afternoon.
    Rubbing my tired eyes, I pulled my bare legs underneath me. “Nope, you didn’t wake me. I always sound this groggy before noon.”
    Lucen raised his head from the pillow, cursed silently and flopped back down. I envied him the luxury.
    “Good.” I couldn’t sense emotions over the phone, but I swore I could hear her smirking. “Something came up this morning. We’ve been called in to a case by local PD. I’d like you to get to Newton as soon as possible. I already have a team on the way, and I want you on it. You can come by the office afterward to take care of your paperwork. Can you do that?”
    I gritted my teeth, considering whether I ought to say no and tell her I had another obligation. Said obligation was watching me from under a set of cool cotton sheets, his hair tousled, his eyes sleepy and his body naked.
    On the other hand, I was wide awake and I knew there’d be no falling back asleep.
    I yawned. “It might take a while. I don’t have car.” I had a motorcycle, but it was parked at