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able to handle anyone. Here’s your first test.”
    Worried that she couldn’t control herself, she planted her hands on her hips. “But he’s injured—“
    “He’s practice. And you need a better offering.”
    “I’ll practice on a mortal who’s not semiconscious.”
    “You’ll be fine as long as you don’t let it get personal.”
    “I’ll do the demoness’s bidding.” But she didn’t like it. Sakari understood why, the more she looked at Brad. She was more attracted to him than any mortal she’d known since she had been on Earth. This was a situation she hadn’t thought she’d have to deal with.
    “Get in.” Valdon opened the back door for her. She shot him a scathing look before getting in beside her next Kithra.
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Chapter Six
    Brad got into the backseat of the car, praying the woman wouldn’t change her mind about giving him a ride home. His head was spinning and his body weak. She got in next to him which surprised him. The guy called Valdon drove. Frankly, he was surprised that she was letting him, a stranger, a naked stranger in a leopard fur, get into her car. Then again, she did have the bodyguard friend with her. “I appreciate the lift. I suppose you want me to explain this. I had clothes with me. I should’ve put them on first.”
    Valdon held them up. “We got them.”
    He adjusted the fur so it covered all the vital body parts. No need to scare the girl.
    Especially since the sight of her was giving him a bit of a hard-on. His sexual fantasies were out of control. He had sex on the brain.
    “You’d only have gotten blood on them,” Valdon said. “You can have someone drive you back tomorrow to get your bike.”
    “Right.” That sounded logical. Didn’t it? Brad shook his head, hoping the grogginess would pass.
    “Can you give us the directions to your house?”
    “Drive back to Sedona and I’ll direct you as we get closer.” Brad rested his head on the back of the seat and half closed his eyes, watching from beneath his lashes.
    The car drove along the empty highway. The whole situation seemed too Twilight Zone for him, or maybe he had a concussion.
    No emotion. No awkwardness, no suspicions from picking up a stranger in the middle of the desert in the early hours of the morning. What do you make of that?
    Something wasn’t right with his beautiful companion and their chauffer and he was going to find out what it was.
    “Where’d you get the fur? Are there leopards in the desert?” Sakari asked.
    Brad raised an eyebrow. Leopards in the Arizona desert? He laughed, thinking she was joking—she wasn’t. He stopped laughing and wondered if he was in trouble.
    “Where are you guys from?”
    They didn’t answer right away. Then she said, “I live in Sedona.”
    “You’re accent isn’t Midwestern.”
    “No, it’s not.” The finality of her response prevented him from pushing the issue.
    Being rude could get him dumped out on the highway.
    He caught the scent of her skin, soap with a citrus smell, and also of her arousal.
    His animal senses were still acute. Maybe that was why he kept thinking about having 45

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    sex with her. He wasn’t normally a sex maniac, not any more than the average guy.
    After a shifting he retained some of his animal senses, including animal sex drive, for several hours.
    Then his mind drifted to thoughts about spreading her legs and lapping her cream while he buried a finger or two into her slick pussy. God, she was turning him on. His cock stirred and swelled.
    Easy soldier. Keep your mind off sex. What the hell is wrong with me? “The leopard pelt belonged to my father.” He stared out the window remembering the first time he put the skin on. He was only eleven. His mother did not allow Brad or his younger brother Jake to watch their father’s transformation or to attempt their own shift. The Norwegian anomaly had terrified her. Brad always wondered if she’d found out about his father’s abilities