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Lexi’s face. What happened? What made her cry? The doctors had said Isabel was cooling down and the baby had a strong heartbeat. What had that bastard said to Alexia? Why was he touching her?
    His chest thumped painfully. Lee slowed his breath. “Nevertheless, greater good is greater good. As it is, you’re lucky there were no further attacks on the two of you from inside our community after he arrived.”
    “Yeah,” she said quietly. “You’d think… He killed his own father to protect me. To protect all of them. What is there not to trust?”
    Down the hall in the chairs, the defected wizard curled his fingers around Alexia’s. Her free hand pushed a stray swath of mussed hair out of her face, and she smiled gratefully at him. At Anton.
    Lee’s own fingers clenched. “Wizards are soulless and vile,” he growled. “This is knowledge burned into the hearts and minds of every vampire from childhood. One of the keys to our survival. That there is an exception to such a rule after so many centuries will be hard for some to grasp. Besides, he could have killed his father for personal gain. Revenge. Look at his brother, Petros, who used their father’s death to take over as the new wizard leader.”
    “Hmm.” Deep breath from her. “You know, I think he feels protective of her,” Tyra murmured. “Because they’re both outsiders. Anyway, he thinks she’s got some sort of childhood trauma.”
    “What?” Now Lee’s head ached.
    She gestured slightly. “Anton. Lexi. He says he thinks she’s got some sort of childhood issue. Something he gleaned from his healing touch, I guess.”
    An orderly pushed in front of them with an empty cart, blocking Lee’s view. Shit.
    He glanced at Tyra, whose brown eyes were staring at him with far too much curiosity. “Honest to God, Ty, sometimes you bust out with the weirdest shit.”
    “So do you.” She rolled her eyes. “You keep wondering if there’s something going on between them. Which is just ridiculous.”
    Was he being so obvious?
    “I can tell. I know you. And lest we forget, I remember all those months ago when she first came to the estate. Even then, I could sense your desire for her. Anyway, I thought you’d want to know your territory is well marked.”
    Another of Tyra’s abilities was reading emotion through touch. Damned annoying. “I’ve asked you not to read me. She is not my territory. I haven’t marked a damn thing.” Yet without intention, an image of his bite on Alexia’s pale throat appeared in his mind. Jesus, imagining such a thing spun desire through his stomach.
    “Well, I try not to pry. It was just so obvious then, and now…” She turned again, inclining her chin toward the two other individuals talking down the hall. “I don’t have to. I can see the little muscle twitching in your jaw and the way your hands are poised like you want to grab a weapon. For the record, you should hear the way he talks about her. Like she’s a kid.”
    Lee swept his gaze up and down Alexia’s body. Tonight she wore tan cargo pants and a long-sleeved shirt. Simple, but the thin, nylon pants rode low on her hips. As she sat in the chair, they dipped to expose her lower back and a piece of one of her tribal tattoos. The shirt hugged her waist and glittered with rhinestones across the chest. Impossible not to notice the feminine lift and swell of her breasts. Her curvaceous hips. Alexia was no child.
    Tyra nudged his arm. “We’re in a secured vampire hospital, and you said yourself if you thought Anton was truly a danger to our race, you’d have kicked him and me both out of the estate by now. So why the need to watch her so closely?” She took a breath and lowered her voice. “Moreover, I know sometimes you check on her. I’ve come through the house on my way back from the shelter in the morning and caught you listening at her door.”
    Lee went still. He wasn’t aware anybody knew he listened in on Alexia. He’d learned quickly that she