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learn more, because there’s no way I can tell you much in the time we have remaining before I have to turn the monitor back on.”
    Her eyes grew wild and the men moved closer, seeking to calm her. They touched her, David first, taking her into his arms, then Michael surrounding her from behind and the Hum returned, pulsing through her entire being, making her feel warm and comforted in a way she had never before experienced.
    “Take it easy, sweetheart. Whatever has you troubled, you can tell us in your own good time.” David was so kind, his words gentle as he kissed her cheeks and eyes with a softness that nearly broke her heart.
    “You can’t hear it, can you?”
    “Hear what?” Michael asked from behind, stroking her waist and hips with his hands as his mouth burrowed under the hair at her nape, placing soft kisses on her heated skin.
    “The Hum. When I touch you?both of you?we Hum. It’s the first of the tests for resonance mates.
    There’s supposed to be only one perfect match for each person, but I Hum with both of you. I never noticed it before.”
    David pulled back to look down at her. “This sound serious.”
    “It is.”
    She gasped as he leaned in and kissed her once, very thoroughly before releasing her. She was spun around and Michael took an equally devastating kiss from her lips before she could form a coherent thought. He released her abruptly and set her away from them.
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    “God, but I’ve been dreaming of that all day. But we’re running out of time.”
    She was glad someone was keeping their wits about them. She moved back toward the monitor.
    “Look it up on the viewer if you can. There’s too much for me to explain now, but please, I hope you don’t mind. I never expected that I would ever Hum with anyone. It’s not something that happens to my people anymore.”
    “Not since they bred emotion out of them, right?” David’s voice was knowing.
    She was amazed. “You’re right! And now that I’m changing, this has changed too. Amazing.” She shook her head in wonder. “I’ll have to test this further.”
    Michael drew her attention back to him by taking her around the waist and dropping a small kiss on her brow. She’d never felt so cherished.
    “Just don’t go around kissing all the boys. I think Dave and I would have something to say about that.”
    He smiled and she laughed, but it made her warm to think that these two handsome men would care what she did and with whom. But then, she’d been their only link to the outside world for months now.
    Perhaps they cared for her in some odd fashion. She’d heard that prisoners sometimes fell in love with their jailors.
    Her face fell at the thought as she left Michael’s embrace. She wasn’t very good at hiding her emotions in front of these men. They knew her too well.
    “What you’re saying doesn’t make sense. I know I’m the only woman from the outside that you have contact with. I can’t trust that if things were different you would still feel the same.”
    “Stockholm Syndrome, you mean?” David asked, coming forward, looking intrigued. “I’m aware of the implications in our situation but I don’t think either Mike or I would fall victim to such feelings. I know for a fact we both want to rip the legs off the bastard who hunted us down and captured us like dogs.” His expression turned violent. “I heard his men calling him Prime. A prime asshole, I figure.”
    She realized suddenly that these men hadn’t gone quietly into imprisonment if they’d sent their best troops after them.
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    “Grady Prime,” she said softly, nodding to herself.
    “Yeah, that was the bastard’s name. Grady,” Michael growled, his eyes going cold with hatred. “You know him?”
    She felt uncomfortable. She could hardly tell these two that she’d serviced him just days before. She somehow understood just the idea of it would make these men violent. But she couldn’ t lie either. They would know. They could read her too