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floor.
    Seth’s team had found her, and the bastards were attempting to burn her out.
    Adrenaline flooded her veins, jolting her heart rate and body into action. Eve bolted back down the stairs. How had this happened? Her head spun over possible scenarios as she scrambled for her keys to the small aboveground escape door. She had to get them out of there.
    Them?
    Eve froze, her fingers white-knuckling the key chain. Was she really going to save Guerin? If so, where would she take him? For all she knew, he’d led her pursuers here.
    “What’s going on, Eve?” Guerin’s calm and smooth baritone voice washed over her. “I smell the smoke and your panic.” Eve snatched the ring from the hook on the wall and swung around, the metal jingling with her momentum. Guerin stood there, fisted hands at his side, watching. “Am I a part of your exit plan?”
    “It appears I’ve been found, and they plan to either expose or fry me,” she stated, not bothering to hide the pissed-off edge to her voice. Eve marched over to the cage. “Did you have anything to do with this?”
    His glare said “Fuck you.”
    “Answer me! Before we both end up a pile of ashes before our time.”
    “I’ve been telling you the truth.” He cocked his head to the side. “Why would you believe a damn thing I say now?”
    “Dammit!” She shoved her hands in her hair, tempted to pull it out by the roots. “Why can’t you give me a straight answer?” He was driving her mad.
    “If I were one of your enemies, do you think I’d let them barbecue me?”
    Her head and chest hurt from all the conflicting emotions swimming around inside. But he had a damn good point. Smoke thickened the air, reminding her she was out of time.
    Eve located the correct key and shoved it in the lock. A moment later, Guerin stepped through the door. Eve swallowed hard and sent out a quick, silent prayer that her instincts weren’t letting her down.
    “This way.” She darted toward the rear of the basement and the hidden narrow door. It was their one chance for survival. On the way, she grabbed the coat Guerin had been wearing when she’d abducted him. She tossed it to him since the male was still in his underwear.
    “Thanks,” he muttered, and slipped it on.
    “Humans in service to Seth will be waiting for us out there.” At the door, Eve stopped and glanced back at Guerin. “I take it at your age you can withstand a brief run through sunlight?” She cocked one brow in his direction. There was no mistaking the vibration of power rolling off the male. Power that said he’d seen more than two centuries. But even the eldest of vampires still couldn’t phase through full sunlight. Their molecules would incinerate from the UV exposure.
    “Did you just call me an old man?” He flashed her a smirk.
    Eve had to resist the urge to roll her eyes. “So I can presume that’s a yes?”
    “Yes,” he replied with the same cocky grin.
    “Good.”
    “What about you?”
    “What about me?” She shrugged.
    “The sun…”
    “Don’t worry about me. I can take care of myself. All you need to do is focus on following my lead. When I open the door, we head left toward my car—a black Mercedes.” Eve turned away as a whispered “yes, ma’am” reached her ears. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply. Why was she saving this asshole? Eve opened her eyes and unlocked the heavy steel bolt securing the five-by-two slab of oak. She looked back, ready to give him the signal to haul ass, when all the air punched from her lungs.
    Naked.
    It was the only word her stunned mind could form. Eve spun in place, and her rear bumped against the door. Guerin stood there, completely nude, with his briefs and coat in his grip.
    “W-wh-what are you doing?” Dear God, she was stuttering like a young girl who’d never seen “boy parts” before. Unbidden, her gaze slid down his body, over sculpted abs, and lower still to the impressive package between his legs. Granted, these were no