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the side of the duct.
    Holding her furious glare, he dipped his head down to cover her lips in a kiss that spoke of his ultimate possession.
    Pleasure detonated through his body. Oh hell. She tasted of fresh strawberries and innocence.
    Pure female temptation.
    “You haven’t seen caveman yet,” he warned against her mouth.
    Her eyes widened, a vulnerable need darkening the pale green to jade before she was sharply turning her head away. As if she could close him out.
    Hakan grimaced, urging her to wrap her arms around his neck so he could use both hands to pull them up the shaft and into the janitor closet above.
    Payton could try to pretend that she hadn’t responded, but he had felt her lips soften beneath his kiss, and her faint tremor of excitement.
    She might not want to want him, but she was as eager as he was to finish what they started twenty years ago.
    Once on the upper floor, Hakan exited the building out the side entrance that he’d left propped open. Then, crossing the nearly empty parking lot, he was jogging down the street when he caught sight of Rage.
    He gave a low whistle, pressing himself against the side of a closed Chinese restaurant. Immediately the younger Hunter was joining him, his expression concerned.
    “What?”
    Hakan nodded toward the dark car that had appeared around the corner, trailing Rage at a distance. It hadn’t come from the clinic, which meant that the alarm must have triggered reinforcements.
    “You have a couple of shadows,” he said.
    Rage smiled with sudden anticipation. Like any cat, he loved to toy with his prey.
    “I’ll stay on foot and lead them into our special area in the swamps,” he told Hakan, referring to a section of the bayou that was filled with lethal bogs. Humans foolish enough to go in rarely came out. “You go to the safe house.” Rage turned his attention to Payton. “Can you use the computers there to find out whether or not you have the information you wanted?”
    “Yeah. She nodded, her arms lightly looped around Hakan’s neck as he cradled her against his chest. “I sent the data to an online account and Xavier had the safe house fitted with the latest equipment a few months ago. I should be able to check as soon as I get there.”
    Rage nodded, glancing toward Hakan. “Take care of her.”
    “That’s exactly what I intend to do,” he promised, his gaze locked on her pale face. “Even if I have to tie her to my bed.”
    Rage gave a short bark of laughter. “Good luck with that.”
    Hakan turned to head up the narrow alley, trusting Rage to lead away the humans.
    “You’re going to need more than luck if you keep saying things like that,” Payton told him, a delectable flush staining her cheeks.
    His lips twitched as he jogged through the empty streets, his instincts on full alert as they left behind the commercial area of town and headed toward the more graceful suburbs near the river.
    “I promise you’re going to enjoy being completely at my mercy,” he murmured. “A soft bed, your arms and legs spread wide while I taste you from head to toe, making sure I take plenty of time to enjoy the places in between.”
    He caught the unmistakable scent of her arousal. So, his little Geek had a naughty side.
    Nice to know.
    Clearly embarrassed by her reaction, Payton pressed her hands to his chest.
    “You don’t have to carry me,” she told him.
    He turned onto a quiet, old-fashioned street that was lined with weeping willows and gracious homes.
    “I know.”
    She muttered something beneath her breath that Hakan was fairly sure was a condemnation of the brainpower of the male sex and a derogatory reference to the size of his penis.
    “Why are you being such a pain?” she demanded.
    Halting beneath a large weeping willow, Hakan studied the street behind them.
    “Because you deliberately put yourself in danger,” he growled, using his acute senses to search for enemies.
    So far he could detect nothing beyond a small cat that was