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glance,
Brand had looked like the sort of man who could walk into a bar and not have to
worry about whether he was going home with someone that night.
    Well,
Eva could do that too. The schematics were just a bit more difficult for her.
For one, she lived with her sister. For the other, she couldn’t actually bring the guy home.
    “What’s
your name?” Brand said. His voice was intent, traced with an accent, and Eva
realized that this wasn’t the first time he had asked her. He probably only
asked because he wanted to know where he should deposit her before brushing his
hands off and going on his way.
    Which
would serve Eva just fine.
    Because
at the moment, all she wanted was her family. All she wanted was to curl up
next to her sister and have Rainey tell her the nightmare was over and that
everything would be all right. Returning to the Turner Gens – no matter
how badly Eva had schemed to leave it over the years – wasn’t so bad, all
things considered.
    “I need
to go home,” she told them painfully. “To my Gens.”
    “I
know,” Brand said quietly, “Don’t worry about it. We’ll take care of
everything,” and that hand squeezed slightly, setting off a chain-reaction in
Eva’s body – coupled to a strong thread of gratefulness. Take care of
everything? It had been so long since she hadn’t had to worry – about everything . Eva shivered, a faint but rising arousal burned through her
at his touch…and was stunned by her body’s response.
    “You’ll
take me to North Carolina?” Eva swallowed both her tears and her nerves as she
twisted around; a jolt coursed through her as Brand’s hand dropped away, his
fingertips roughened against her skin. She met those eyes – and was hit
by it again. Him . His presence. “You would do that for me?”
    Brand
hesitated, his gaze flickering. Then he cautiously nodded. “We will take you
home.”
    Thank
god .
    “Oh for
Christ’s sake,” the tall sandy-haired Kaspian – Joshua – muttered.
“You know our name. What is yours?”
    “Eva.
Eva Turner.”
    Blue
eyes – dark blue irises, sapphire blue irises. Brand’s hair
gleamed a rich black, falling thickly about his face like a thick sleek mane.
It offset the deep gold of his skin, and Eva’s fingers twitched against the
sheets. Surely his hair’s not that soft? She curled her fingers into her
palm. He was tall. Muscular. And so well-dressed.
    His
gaze rose, and Eva realized he had been staring at her breasts. “ Oh my god .”
She ripped her arm up to cover them and tore at the sheets until Brand
oh-so-politely offered her the coverlet. Eva pretended she wasn’t flushing.
“Why didn’t anyone tell me I was naked?”
    Joshua
snorted, and began to say something until Brand shot him a glare, and Eva’s
humiliation was complete. “Don’t look,” she muttered, avoiding Brand’s gaze.
“It’s not my fault I’m naked.”
    “I
know. Who do you think pulled you from the snow?” A deep amusement to that
tone.
    Oh god.
Change the subject. Now. “Where am I? Are we…safe?”
    A
pause.
    Eva
snuck a glance: Brand was treating her to a discerning look, a small smile
lurking at the corner of his mouth. Her heart stuttered.
    “I’ve
seen a lot of women in my lifetime,” Brand finally said. “So nakedness doesn’t
shock me. Though yes, you are lovely, Eva. Much lovelier than anything Joshua
was about to say.” Then as Eva turned red, all amusement died from his face.
“So tell me, Eva: why did we find a tigress from a North Carolina Gens lying by
the side of the road in Vermont, naked and injured with a Sakai standing over
her? We need to know what happened. You are as safe as Joshua and I can make
you, but neither of us can make promises when it comes to threats we can’t
assess.”
    Everything
went still and cold inside Eva. She shuddered. Brand needed to know about Rohe. Everyone needed to know about Rohe. People had to be warned, Rohe had to
be stopped.
    But the
words stuck in her throat.