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"Lance, I don't doubt you would protect us. The point is that if we found a place to have the baby in safety, then we could fight the rest later. "
"If running or hiding would assure your life and our child's, then I would be perfectly capable of hiding us. Son of a bitch, Harmony. I understand your history with the bastard, but we do this my way, not his. "
"I'm not doubting you…"
"Well, excuse me if it sounds like it," he snapped.
"You're bargaining with other people's lives," she whispered desperately. "We can't do that, Lance. "
"I'd bargain with the devil himself for your fucking safety. " An edge of impatience colored his v
oice. "If the first Leo exists, then his location is not going to be in those files. If the Council ever had a hint of where he was, they would have struck. A few power-hungry Council scientists would not have sat on that information before using it. " He sat there so calmly, commanding, determined that this was going to go his way, period. For a moment, Harmony almost gave in. She almost agreed.
Then the faces of those babies in the labs flashed before her mind again. Screaming for attention, for warmth. They hadn't known warmth, had never known love or a gentle touch. That was the fate that awaited her child if the Council took her—that, or death. Straightening her shoulders, she let her own determined gaze meet his.
"Then I'll leave alone. I know how to contact Dane…"
She didn't expect his response, though she should have. His patience evaporated as her eyes widened. A hint of fear flew through her a second before he reached her, his hands gripping her upper arms firmly.
"Like fucking hell!" His features were contorted with fury, his eyes burning with it.
"Attempt it, Harmony, just fucking attempt it and I swear to God I'll slap you in cuffs so fast it will make your head spin. "
Her lips parted as she stared back at him, shocked at the burning heat that flowed from his hands into her arms.
"Let me go. " She jerked against his hold.
"Do you think I'm going to let you keep running?" His gaze bored into hers. "That I'm incapable of protecting you and our child?"
"That's not what I meant. " She shook her head desperately. "You don't understand…"
"I understand that Jonas, Dane and these fucking files have haunted you for ten years, and it's coming to an end here. "
His head lowered, his lips drawing back from his teeth in a primitive snarl.
"It ends here. Right here, by God. "
"Even if it means our lives?" she cried out, fighting to hold back her fears, her tears.
"They've followed us, Lance. We can't even be certain who it is that followed, or who's waiting. Don't ask me to take this chance. Please. "
He dropped a hand to her abdomen, his palm covering it, his eyes darkening to a near black.
"If it meant your life, I'd know it," he snapped. "I would feel it and the winds would scream that knowledge to me. This is the only way. "
"No. " She jerked at his hold again.
"Yes. "
He didn't give her time to argue. As her lips opened to curse him, his were there, covering them as his arms pulled her against his chest.
Arousal should have been the last thing in her mind, the last thing she responded to. They were in the middle of a war zone and it was about to get worse, she could feel it. But his lips on hers were a sensual, erotic act of mastery. He didn't ask for her kiss, nor was he tentative. He demanded. He controlled. And ultimately, Harmony found herself submitting to the wicked, erotic nips at her lips by sharp teeth and the hungry growl that came from her own throat.
That dominance was her undoing. Female Breeds must have been programmed to submit to the males, though until Lance, that genetic coding had never made an impression on her. With Lance, she couldn't deny it. She couldn't deny her need, or her hunger, any more than she could deny the fears that, for the moment, dissolved beneath his passion.
His hands trailed down her arms, broad, calloused hands that stroked her flesh with sensual roughness and replaced the chill of foreboding with heated, wicked lashes of pleasure.
She was lost in him. As impossible as it should have been, as furious as she was with him, he still managed to consume her, to build the hunger simmering within her to a full, raging blaze.
