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hunting a mouse in a nearby flowerbed, and a human male who was seated on his porch a block away drinking from a bottle of whiskey.
    “It wasn’t deliberate,” Payton denied. “Besides, you’re always putting yourself in danger.”
    He shrugged. “I’m a Hunter.”
    “So what you’re saying is that you think what you do is more important than being a Geek?”
    Belatedly realizing his error, Hakan glanced down to study the pretty, heart-shaped face. He grimaced. She had the sort of expression a female got when thinking about slicing off a male’s balls.
    “I didn’t say that,” he hedged, surging back into motion to cross a manicured lawn and dart around the edge of a large mansion.
    “Do you believe I should have walked away from our first opportunity to gain valuable intel on our enemies?” Payton pressed. “The Haymore Center is responsible for impregnating a human with a Pantera cub. We have to discover why and what else they were doing.”
    His lips twisted as he jogged through the back garden and then easily vaulted over the low fence.
    He paused in the shadows, studying the white, plantation-style home that was set well away from the street. Then, certain there were no prying eyes, he headed directly for the back entrance.
    “I don’t have to be reasonable,” he informed her, placing his hand on a scanner. The lock would only open to a Pantera.
    The heavy metal door swung inward, and Hakan stepped into the cramped entry, sending a text message to the Hunters HQ in the Wildlands as the alarm automatically sounded.
    With no guard on duty, the alarm would alert Parish there were intruders.
    Seconds later the alarm went silent.
    Hoping the distraction had brought an end to the uncomfortable conversation, Hakan swallowed a sigh when she narrowed her eyes.
    “Is there a particular reason you don’t have to be reasonable?” Payton demanded.
    “Because you’re my mate.”
     
    ***
     
    Mate, mate, mate…
    Payton’s heart clenched with a savage pain as Hakan carried her through the kitchen and into the main part of the house that had maintained the original moulded ceilings and sweeping staircases from the eighteen hundreds.
    Once, she would have given everything she possessed to hear that word on his lips.
    The large, barely civilized Hunter had fascinated her for as long as she could remember. And she certainly wasn’t the only female who found a reason to hang around the training grounds when he was teaching the cubs how to fight. Or to jostle for a place to eat next to him during evening meals.
    What female wasn’t attracted to a tall, dark, and sexily dangerous male?
    But she’d moved beyond her teenage crush when her cat had reached maturity.
    Suddenly he wasn’t just the male who made her heart pound and her knees weak.
    He was the one.
    The only one.
    But while she’d rejoiced at the knowledge she’d found her mate, Hakan hadn’t been nearly so excited.
    In fact…
    She stiffened in his arms, furious that Hakan would claim her as his mate after he’d nearly destroyed her.
    “Nothing to say?” Hakan broke into her dark thoughts.
    “I’m trying to decide if I want to punch you in the nose again,” she snapped.
    He arched a dark brow. “When did you become so violent?”
    “When an arrogant ass decided he could push his way back into my life.”
    Turning to the right, Hakan carried her through a double doorway into what had once been the library filled with rare first editions and graceful antebellum furniture. Now the towering shelves held a high-tech computer system and military-grade surveillance equipment.
    “You knew my retreat would only be temporary,” he said with a calm composure that set her teeth on edge.
    “Retreat?” Her own voice was closer to a screech. “Is that what you call sleeping with another female and then disappearing from the Wildlands?”
    He came to a halt in the center of the floor, meeting her accusing gaze with a somber expression.
    “I didn’t