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the table and a filing cabinet in front of the door, sealing them inside.
    “That’ll buy us some privacy,” David said.
    No, this
wasn’t
happening.
    The silver collar
should
have worked. It hadn’t.
    The guards who’d been monitoring the video feed
should
have been rushing to her rescue.
    Were they coming?
Hurry!
    His grip was so tight on her wrist that Olivia feared he’d shatter the bones any moment.
    “What are you?” David demanded as he yanked her closer and then he—he
smelled
her.  Sniffed her.
    Her free hand shoved against his chest, but he didn’t let her go. His mouth hovered over her throat and he seemed to be drinking in her scent.
    At least he’s not ripping my throat out, not yet.
“I’m a psychologist. I’m here to try and profile—”
    “
What are you
?”
    Olivia’s gaze flew frantically around the room. Brett was on the floor, his eyes closed. He was breathing, but that was about all she could say for him in that instant. “I-I’m a human…”
    “Liar.” He said the word as if it were a caress.  “I wonder…are you what I’ve been waiting for?”
    She screamed again. Loud and long even as she kicked at him. Punched.
    He just smiled.
    He likes the fight. He told me…he likes it.
    Olivia stilled.
    His smile slipped.
    “I’m human,” she said, struggling to keep her voice calm. Panic and fear had overwhelmed her for a moment, but she had to stay in control. Help would come. She just had to stay alive long enough for it to arrive.
    “Let’s see about that…” And, before she could even draw another breath, his fingers—his claws—cut into her wrist.
    Don’t let him bite me. Don’t.
    Blood slid down her wrist. Dropped to the floor.
    “I bet the vamps down there can smell your blood,” he said. “Wonder if you smell like a human to them?”
    The vamps were still shouting. She was staring into David’s eyes and seeing his beast.
    Where are the guards?
    He let her go. Just…let her go.
    Olivia stumbled back. She sank down to her knees, as if she were too terrified to stand.
    “Let’s have a taste…” David lifted his hand. His fingers were covered with her blood.
    Her fingers slid inside her boot.
    He—he licked up a drop of her blood from his claw. Closed his eyes. Seemed to savor her taste. “
What. Are. You?”
    Olivia leapt up, the small silver knife held tightly in her hand. Olivia always,
always,
kept that knife hidden in her boot. The guards at Purgatory had never searched her, so they hadn’t known about her weapon. She drove that knife right toward David.
    Just before the blade would have sunk into his chest, David’s eyes flew open. He grabbed for her hand, and the blade missed his heart. It sank into his side, and he roared his fury and pain. His claws came at her—
    “
Don’t fucking try it.”
A low, lethal voice. One that was coming from…the window?
    David froze. Then his head turned toward the window.
    Olivia was already gazing at the vamp there with wild shock, and desperate hope.
    Shane. Shane was in the window. She didn’t even know how the hell he’d gotten up there.
Had he scaled the stone wall?
But she was just so glad to see him that—
    He’s a killer, too! He’s not a hero here to help you.
    Her hope crashed as the voice of reality screamed in her head.
    “Smelled the blood, did you, vamp?” David taunted. “Don’t worry, I’m sure there will be plenty to go around.”
    Shane jumped down. His feet hit the stone floor and he started stalking toward David.  “Come to me, Olivia.”
    Her blood trickled down her inner wrist.
    “If you do, he’ll make a meal of you,” David promised her. “The vamp will gulp you all down. The last thing you’ll ever feel on this earth will be his teeth tearing into you.”
    Yeah, well, she’d already felt the werewolf’s claws slicing into her. Unlike the werewolf, Shane hadn’t hurt her. Yet.  She inched toward him.
    David grabbed her. “
My
prize, vamp.”
    Shane’s gaze dropped to