Sentinels: Leopard Enchanted (Harlequin Nocturne)
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As for you, woman...
His attention snapped to identify another smell.
Metal.
The woman on the porch had a gun?
Gavin realized with a sudden flash of intuition that the icy chill now ripping through him wasn’t due only to the alluring sight of the woman, or the scent of her weapon, but to the thing closing in on them from the mountain.
He must have gauged the strange lure of this area correctly if the prodigal beast he sought returned two days early. Forty-eight hours shy of that next full moon.
“Ah, hell...”
With renewed wariness, he glanced again at the cabin and the beauty on the porch whose white T-shirt highlighted her slender torso, and whose face was hidden by a cloud of fair hair. He already felt protective of her. Felt as though he knew her somehow.
She might have courage enough to try to protect herself, but no gun he knew of would save her if the thing he chased turned its attention her way. He whirled, his boots digging up clumps of dirt. No time to waste. If the visitor heading this way was what he hoped it might be, he needed to lead that abomination away from the cabin.
With a final look over his shoulder, Gavin took off at a jog because his gut told him he needed to stop this killer before it claimed another poor soul.
Copyright © 2015 by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom
ISBN-13: 9781460385234
Sentinels: Leopard Enchanted
Copyright © 2015 by Doranna Durgin
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