Lover Mine (Blood Brothers 1) Read Online Free PDF

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they both held, allowing her to finish pulling it to her chest.
    "What do you mean . . . hunted down?" she
whispered.
    "They are no more!" he growled, reaching up
to stroke a bruise that still marred her shoulder above the towel.
"Now dress . . . we are leaving this place if you're ready." Kayne
moved back, giving her just enough room to breathe. He watched her
pretty nipples pebble under the thin T-shirt she had pulled on and
silently bit back a groan.
    "What do you mean . . . leaving?" She gulped
as he growled again, his head lowering. "I'm leaving here alone,
thank you very much!" Chayle tried to push past him, but the brute
just stood there.
    "Do you mind?" she hissed, as she tried to
push past him again.
    "You are coming to a safe house. No
arguments." Kayne didn't elaborate since he really didn't see the
need. Damn, why hadn't his brother taken this on? He was the
empathic one, better at soothing and getting his way than Kayne
ever was at these things. Then he looked down at the bruises and
barely healed swelling just below the hem of the shirt where it
hung below her groin and knew why.
    "Mine!" No one could touch her again
. . . not and live.
    " Easy brother! We've got everything in
place to protect her." Rafe whispered in his mind, " Just get
her out of there and to our house. We'll see how things go from
there."
    It took a moment to realize that the female
was dressing and mumbling to herself, causing Kayne to grin. If she
could accomplish only half the things she was wishing on his
anatomy it would be a miracle of science, not to mention a freak of
nature. Still, her amazing twists of the English language
entertained him as he turned his back to give her a semblance of
privacy. When he turned he found her sitting on the edge of the
small bed looking at her tiny feet, bewildered tears trickling down
her chafed face.
    "What troubles you, woman?" Kayne whispered
as he knelt in front of her, watching the strange play of emotions
over her pale face. Her chocolate eyes were lit with tawny flicks
trying to hide the pain she must still feel and the tears she
valiantly attempted to hide from him, causing his chest to
ache.
    "They didn't even leave me any shoes." Her
soft admission nearly broke his heart.
    Kayne knew he no longer had a soul and his
heart had been hardened long ago by the things the military
scientists and their form of humanity justified in doing to one
another. He and his band of brothers and sisters worked as
Guardians now.
    Their abilities made them freaks to those
they had served , and now he and his teams worked to keep mankind
from extermination by forces it had no idea were even within their
mists. Now, watching this small woman touched a core of something
he didn't want to think about right now. When Chayle looked up at
him with tears in those dark eyes, he felt a band tighten around
his chest.
    "Enough!" he growled, moving over to pick
her up. "You won't need shoes anyway."
    Chayle's unladylike squawk filled the room
as she came up against his huge chest. Arms like vise grips wrapped
around her so gently not even a bruise ached. Her arms
automatically snaked around his neck when he growled at someone
behind them.
    "Come get the rest of her stuff and let's
move it." The guard who called himself Davey slipped into the room
with a duffel bag and began to quickly stuff her meager belongings
into it while she watched in stunned silence, his bemused grin
looking over a wide shoulder ever so often. When she felt her face
heating, it was too much.
    "Put me down!" Chayle hissed through
clenched teeth, slugging Kayne's chest with her fist as if it would
do any good at all.
    "Be still or I'll paddle your ass." He
shifted her weight as he turned to look at Davey, and then growled.
"What are you looking at, runt?"
    "Nothin' boss!" The younger man hid a smirk
as he watched Kayne struggle with the curvy woman in his arms. "The
SUV is waiting down stairs in the back, but I'm sure you already
know that since