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Chapter One

Hannah Osborne had become a stupid cliché: Hot man, cold shower

She refused to turn away froh Mastyr Jude had just arrived and now stood behind her in the doorway All his gorgeousness had beco hard to restrain her ardness where the powerful Mastyr of Kellcasse was concerned

She’d asked Jude to set up the new communication center inside her bar, the Gold Rush, since so many of his kind spent hours at her establishment

Jude had always come to the Gold Rush, but his visits had increased by a lot over the past few months She wanted to tell him not to come around so ly, the words would never leave her throat

“So, what’s the latest on the loop?” His deep voice sent shivers down her spine

Hannah belonged to a small, select email loop that included only women All the women orked the US access city centers were on the loop as well as the four women currently bonded to mastyrs of the Nine Realms Hannah had learned so h each realm that she often wondered when Jude’s blood rose would show up

But each tiers would curl until she ht little fists with both hands and her jaw clenched She wanted the best for Jude, of course, but another worow hot in the worst way

Even now, she had to take a moment to calotten out of control where the Kellcasse mastyr was concerned

“Hannah, are you ignoring me?”

“No … that is, as your question?”

“What’s the word on the loop?”

Oh, that “Everyone’s talking about what happened in Kellcasse, on North Island”

“You mean the massacre”