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it for a few days.”
    He frowned.
    She huffed. “Give me a break, Jesse. I was horny, hurt and
not happy that two dickheads ruined my Monday morning.”
    “We didn’t run into you until last night.”
    She blinked then choked on laughter. “Um, I wasn’t calling
you and Logan dickheads. I meant the two Ravagers I ran into near the Voids.”
    He tensed. “What?”
    “Nothing. It’s not important.”
    He grabbed her by the arm and halted her in her place. “It’s
not nothing. What the hell are you talking about?” The urge to hunt down and
kill anyone who’d threatened Kate shadowed his need to find Logan.
    Before she could answer, they both heard a scream from
several floors below. Jesse and Kate shared a glance then raced for the door.
They cleared the hallway and stairwell in under a minute, then exited on the
fourth floor, where Jesse could scent faint traces of blood and Logan.
    His senses flared, his hearing, sight and sense of smell on
overdrive as he sought his missing mate.
    Instead of Logan, he ran into a crowd milling around a dozen
Salinas near the open door of a room down the hall. At the edge of the crowd,
he and Kate stopped. He kept his hand on her, not willing to chance her running
or being pulled from him, not with Logan already absent.
    “Do you see anything?” she asked.
    He shook his head. Taller than most of the people around
him, he could only see the backs of several Salinas. A few paramedics suddenly
left the room rolling a gurney. He blanched seeing the bloody sheet covering a
body being wheeled away.
    “It’s not him. Too small,” he whispered to Kate, almost weak
with relief. But their worries weren’t over, because he scented Logan on that
sheet, and that couldn’t be good.
    One of the Salinas met his stare and nodded to his friends.
“You, there. Come here.”
    Shit. Jesse couldn’t ignore him. Everyone turned to
look at him, suspicion, fear and tension thick in the suddenly quiet
atmosphere. He turned to Kate and ordered in a low voice, “Go back to our room
and stay there.”
    “Hell no. I’m not leaving you.”
    Proud she wanted to stand by him, he was torn between
wanting to keep her by his side, where he could keep an eye on her, and wanting
her far away from this mess. Then the choice was taken out of his hands.
    “Jesse and Kate Savage?”
    “Yeah?” Jesse put himself between the Salinas and Kate.
    “Come with us.”
    They didn’t say he was under arrest, but the way they
surrounded him and Kate spoke volumes.
    “Come on.”
    Jesse held Kate’s hand and pulled her protectively into his
side while they walked quickly from the crowd for the elevator.
    He turned to one of the Salinas and asked, “What the hell’s
going on?”
    No one answered. They rode the elevator to the first floor
in silence. Jesse growled when one of the men stepped too close to Kate. At the
sound, the cop took a healthy step back and put his hand on the butt of his
weapon. Smart guy.
    Still, no one spoke. Not even when they exited the back of
the hotel and neared one of several squad cars.
    “We’ll take them with us for questioning. Keep the crowd
quiet,” one of the older cops told the group.
    “What the fuck is going on?” Jesse demanded to know.
    A younger cop with attitude answered in a cold voice, “A
Ravager tore apart a young woman who had the bad luck to be working the night
shift on the hotel’s wait staff. Her throat was ripped out, her guts tossed
around the room like a fucking salad and blood thrown everywhere. And what do
you know, the only three Ravagers on the premises are you, her and our suspect,
Logan Savage.”
    “Suspect?” Kate’s voice was strong despite the shock he
could feel in her guer .
    Their new tie gave him insights into his mate that might
prove invaluable to their future after all. He asked the cop, “What does Logan
have to do with this?”
    The older Salina with them sighed. “We found him in the
room, covered in her blood.”
    “The hell you