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    “Inside?”
    “It’s a voice, but not a voice,” Willa reluctantly admitted. “It shows me pictures.”
    Indy placed her hand on Willa’s leg, prepared to shoot the dart if Angel mocked the child’s fearful confession.
    Of course he didn’t. Instead he leaned even closer to the child, his beautiful face intent as he studied Willa.
    “Do you remember the pictures?” he asked.
    Willa gave a hesitant nod. “Sometimes I’m lying in the sun surrounded by plants. And sometimes I’m running so fast it tickles my ears. And sometimes—” Once again her words broke off, an embarrassed color staining her cheeks.
    “Go on, little one,” Angel insisted.
    “Sometimes I’m biting the bad men who hurt me,” Willa confessed in a breathless rush.
    Angel flashed a reassuring smile, his fingers brushing through her pale curls.
    “You did very good, Willa,” he praised as he straightened.
    Indy gave the girl’s leg a soft squeeze. “She’s a good kitten, aren’t you?”
    “Cat,” Angel breathed.
    Indy sent him a frown. “What?”
    His features hardened with a grim determination. “We need to talk.”
    Oh…shit.
    Indy’s heart plummeted as she easily read his concern. He’d been able to sense something about Willa. Something that wasn’t good.
    “Okay,” she muttered, pasting a smile to her lips as she moved to place a soft kiss on Willa’s forehead. “I’ll send Nadia in to help you with your bath.”
    Willa’s gaze clung to Angel. “Will you come back to visit?”
    Angel gave a slow, solemn dip of his head. “I would be honored to visit again.”
    Sensing she’d earned yet another conquest, Willa gave a bat of her long lashes.
    “With cookies?”
    Angel tilted back his head as he released a burst of laughter. Indy’s breath lodged painfully in her lungs, her entire body going up in flames at the sight of his genuine amusement.
    Yeesh. He was gorgeous when he was broody. And when he was mad. And when he was ready to wring her throat.
    But he was devastating as his eyes sparkled with wicked humor and his lips parted to reveal snowy white teeth. Teeth she suddenly wanted to feel nibbling at her flesh, stirring the passions she hadn’t even known she possessed.
    She shuddered, deeply relieved he was still concentrating on Willa.
    “You’re going to be a very dangerous female, little one,” he assured her.
    Willa gave a proud nod. “Just like Indy.”
    The dark eyes slid in her direction, lingering on her flushed face with an intensity that made her mouth go dry.
    “Yes, just like Indy,” he murmured.
    She flattened her lips, fiercely trying to pretend her stomach wasn’t fluttering as a surge of tingling excitement exploded through her.
    Dammit. She brought this male here to help Willa, not to stir up sensations that were better left unstirred.
    “Let’s go,” she ordered in abrupt tones, not surprised when he sent her a taunting glance.
    A part of her suspected that she wasn’t nearly as in control of the situation as he was allowing her to believe. A suspicion that only deepened as he prowled next to her, his graceful movements doing nothing to hide the power beneath his pretense of civilization.
    Beneath the expensive clothing and polished air of a professional lurked a primitive hunter just waiting for his opportunity to pounce.
    Reaching the hallway, she paused for the dark-haired Nadia to dart past them, her head bent to hide her face. Then, closing the door to the nurse’s office, she forced herself to ask the question that she dreaded.
    “Do you know what’s wrong with her?”
    Angel didn’t hesitate. “She needs to go to the Wildlands.”
    Indy stiffened. Okay. That was the last thing she expected. As far as she knew, no humans had ever been invited into the secluded bayous the Pantera called home.
    “Why?”
    He glanced toward the closed door. “The magic there is the only thing that will heal her.”
    Indy parted her lips only to snap them shut as she abruptly