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“I’m begging you. I’ll owe you a favor. Just delete it. Please.”
Robby blinked twice, and then nodded. “Okay.” He disappeared inside, and Hallie stooped and picked up the man’s cracked phone from the pavement. She lifted it to her ear. “Are you still there?”
With his visor lifted, Gunner could hear the other end of the conversation plain as day. “I haven’t heard your voice in awhile. I—”
“Shut the fuck up, Derek. I’m calling the police.”
“Hallie, wait!”
She hung up. Eyes full of angry tears, she looked up at Gunner. “You have to go.”
“You tased me,” he growled, still pissed.
“I know who Damon is.”
“How do you know him? You’re human. I can smell the weakness on you.”
“So? Everybody knows the dragon around here. Please go.” She shook her head, and her eyes pleaded. “Do not bring the dragon here.”
Gunner glared at the man rolling around, groaning in pain and holding his snapped wrist. Gunner had been shot in the arm and he wasn’t favoring it. All this guy had was a little broken bone. What a wuss.
“You want to kill him,” Hallie said. “I can see it. You can’t do that. If Damon doesn’t get you, you’ll be thrown in that damned shifter prison. Either option is bad.”
Gunner narrowed his eyes. She was holding his gaze just fine right now, and the air was filled with a settled sensation of confidence. “I thought you were submissive.”
“Sometimes I am, and sometimes I’m not.” She jammed a finger at his bike. “If you don’t leave now, I’ll tase you again.”
He believed her. Why? Because he could hear the truth in her voice. This woman might be submissive sometimes, but she didn’t bluff.
Huh. Interesting.
Gunner backed away a few steps, and then sauntered off toward his motorcycle. The pit-pat, pit-pat of blood trickling down his hand was annoying, and made the air stink of wet pennies. That asshole had ruined his favorite hoodie.
He slid his leg over his bike and called out, “The tracker will be on your phone or on your car. Fix it.” And then he turned his motorcycle on and peeled out of the gas station.
He looked back once, because he couldn’t seem to help himself.
Hallie was standing there by that man’s weapon, her eyes on Gunner, her phone up to her ear. She would be on the phone with the police now. At least there was that.
She gave him a little two-fingered wave, like she’d done in the gas station to Robby.
Gunner didn’t wave back. He flipped his visor down and leaned down, hit the gears fast, and rocketed up the road.
That woman was something he didn’t understand.
She’d been tough. She hadn’t been nearly surprised enough to figure out her ex was tracking her. She’d asked Robby to delete the footage of Gunner throttling that man.
And for the most curious part…
When she’d asked him to leave, he had.
For him, his bear didn’t get pulled off any prey, for any reason, but that little woman…that little human…could give him a little tase and tell him to leave, and all of a sudden his body was in his control?
Well, that didn’t make any sense at all, now did it?
Gunner had been confused about himself before he’d pulled into that gas station, but now?
Now he was completely baffled.
