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Why, though? Why did he feel this way? He’d just met Gabriel yesterday!
    “Just leave,” he demanded. “Go. Get out.”
    Gabriel scooped the bacon from the stovetop and piled it onto a plate along with a mound of scrambled eggs and a diagonally sliced piece of buttered toast. “Breakfast is ready,” he said in a singsong voice.
    Tony ground his teeth in frustration. What part of “get out” was difficult for this man to understand? In a blur of speed, he was twisting Gabriel’s shirt in one hand while lifting him off the floor with a wild snarl.
    “Thanks for the food, now get out.”
    Gabriel chuckled darkly. “I would leave but right now I can’t. The mark binding you to me as my servant is compelling me to care for you in this moment, as something is troubling you deeply. So tell me what it is and I’ll strive to fix it as soon as possible.”
    “There’s nothing on my mind except the thought of you leaving! Now go!”
    “Could your worries perhaps be tied to those scars on your back?”
    Tony paused. The scars on his back…how did Gabriel know? He must’ve seen them when they…oh shit. Only the other were-panthers ever saw that wound, and now for this man to have seen them, it made him emit an irritated growl within his throat.
    “It…” He wanted to say it had nothing to do with it, but it did, and that’s what terrified Tony the most. Maybe he could use Gabriel to help him with Lukas…maybe Gabriel could do everything and he wouldn’t even have to lift a finger.
    Hope blossomed inside him as he answered. “Yeah, it does have to do with the scars. My sire as a were-panther, Lukas, is the Regis of the New York were-panther clan and he’s corrupt as hell. I wanna kill him, but I can’t do it alone. I’ll need help. Lots of it.”
    Gabriel pulled a chair from under the round table and ushered Tony onto it, poured him a glass of orange juice, and then sat down himself. “You wish to kill this man? The one who turned you? Murder is a serious thing.”
    Tony slammed a fist beside his plate. “I don’t care. If I have to go to jail, I will. I don’t want this man ruining any more lives. He deserves to die. The world will be a better place without him.”
    “And what is your plan?”
    “I’m gonna see if anyone else in the clan shares my ideals and if they do we’ll work together to kill that fucking bastard. But I also need you. You’re strong. Really strong, I can tell. Would you please help me?”
    Gabriel smirked. “I could never turn you down, Tony. Not now when we are bonded by my mark.”
    Tony asked through a forkful of eggs, “Why did you mark me? I’m not that strong and we just met.”
    “I instantly liked you. I don’t know why, but I felt an invisible pull to you that I’ve never felt before. It was a hot, tingling pull inside me that made me act without thinking. You’re very handsome, Tony, and very strong, although you refuse to see it. I didn’t want to let you go, so I marked you as mine. Or rather, I couldn’t let you go. I guess you would call it love at first sight.”
    Tony almost spit out his orange juice. Love at first sight? With him? What the hell could this vampire possibly see in him, a coward and a liar? A weak shell of a man that had been running from himself for years now.
    “Thanks for the concern, Gabriel, but I’d like to know more about you since you refuse to leave.” He sighed. “I’d like to know more about your connection to Alexander and just why you chose me and not someone else. But first, will you help me? With Lukas?”
    “Of course,” Gabriel responded quickly. “What kind of master would I be if I ignored my servant’s one true wish?”
    Tony sucked in an overjoyed breath and became instantly overwhelmed with guilt. He was taking advantage of Gabriel’s feelings, simply using him to get what he wanted. But hadn’t he been using others his whole life? What was one more person to add to the list? Would he toss the vampire away