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down her spine when his gaze drifted past her to Lucas. His smile widened as he dropped Turner before him. Turner didn't even have time to get his hands underneath him before he face planted on the floor. Blood trickled out of his brutalized nose, he managed to push himself onto his back but he didn't move again. Hannah fought the urge to help the poor old man but Calvin would only be uglier to Turner if he realized he could manipulate her by hurting him.
    "What is the meaning of this Calvin?" she asked quietly. "You cannot just barge in here whenever you feel like it, there are rules..."
    "Rules that I established," he interrupted brusquely. He moved in on her, coming so close that she had to take a step back as he pressed against her. She'd been forced to touch him far too much over the past couple of days for her liking, she wasn't going to do it anymore than she had to if she could avoid it. "Rules that Turner has informed me have been broken. He has confirmed that there was indeed a fight here last night."
    Had he been waiting outside for everyone to leave ? She wondered frantically as her gaze shot back to Calvin's men crowded within the door of the tavern. She quickly realized that was exactly what he had been doing. Her heel hit the wall as she backed up against it.
    Turner released a low moan. "I'm sorry Hannah," he said in a voice choked by the blood that trickled out of the corners of his mouth.
    "It's ok Turner," she assured him as a round of coughing shook Turner's slender frame. William moved to help the older man but Lucas grabbed hold of his arm and pulled him away with a shake of his head. Knowing that there had been a fight, Calvin now had all the info he needed to imprison the young human.
    "There was no need to hurt him," she said to Calvin.
    "You lied to me when I was here last night," Calvin chided with a wave of his finger.
    "Nothing happened that we couldn't take care of." She was impressed she was able to keep the irritation and anxiety from her voice. "No one was injured and everything is fine."
    "This may be your family's place Hannah, but it is still subject to the laws and when those laws are broken I am to be told."
    Her teeth ground together as she strained to maintain her composure. A part of her wanted to scream at him while the rest of her wanted to grab the others and bolt out of this room as quickly as possible. She couldn't lose her cousin and she couldn't stand the thought of the human being tortured when he'd had no way of knowing what he'd be walking into when he'd entered this town.
    "There were no laws broken; it was simply a small scuffle that was immediately handled," she said in a choked voice.
    Calvin's gaze drifted from her to Lucas. Hannah froze as she got the distinct feeling that Calvin was a wolf circling his prey. Look away, don't hold his gaze, she pleaded silently, but her cousin wasn't one to back down, not even from Calvin. Not even if it meant imprisonment or death.
    "I was informed you were part of the scuffle," Calvin stated.
    "I was involved, yes," Lucas confirmed.
    Her non-beating heart sank into her toes as a cold sweat broke out on her skin. "You'll be coming with us, as will the human," Calvin commanded.
    "Wait!" Hannah cried as she instinctively stepped between Lucas and the vampire grabbing for him.
    Calvin's guard stared at her as if she had just started blubbering gibberish when she smacked his hand away. "Hannah!" Lucas grated as he grabbed for her arm. "Hannah get out of the way."
    She shook Lucas off though and pushed the guard's hand away when he made a grab for Lucas again. William was standing in front of Kane with his bow on his back and a stake in his hand. He had a look on his face that clearly dared Kane to even try and touch him. She didn't know where the stake had come from, but she wasn't overly thrilled that the human was so well armed against her kind.
    Her shoulders began to ache from holding Lucas back. Her head spun as the situation began to