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could see him. Her gaze, wide and dark, latched onto him the instant he stepped into view. She panted, her heartbeat as rapid as a bird’s. The terror in her eyes twisted his heart into little knots.
    “Hey there.” Making sure his voice was low, he took a wary step forward and hunkered down. While nowhere near as big as Dom, he still wasn’t a small man. Plenty big enough to terrorize a tiny little creature like this if he wasn’t careful.
    She didn’t say anything but swallowed, her body tense as he got nearer. She didn’t run, even though her whole posture said she was ready to flee.
    “Don’t worry, sweetpea. You’re safe now.” He added a smile. Whatever other shit his conversion had done to him, thank fuck he didn’t have fangs. Slowly he extended a hand, palm up, to show that he wasn’t armed.
    “I’m not one of them.” He crept a little closer, trying to keep his movements as human as possible. He could have been all over her within a heartbeat, but he didn’t want to freak her out. “I promise. I’ll look after you.”
    Her gaze flicked to his hand, and back up to his face. He swept a quick glance over her, taking in the torn and dirty pajama pants and vest top. Not military, and her scent was familiar now that he was close up. She was the woman they’d tracked here from Greenwood.
    “I know.” Her voice was soft and melodious. A light brush of sound that, with the alluring scent which rose from her, wrapped around him and had his cock hard in a second. His heart pounded to power the erection, and he couldn’t have shut either down without a battle against his male instincts. Instincts that wanted to haul her closer, wrap her up in strong arms and protect her.
    He frowned. “You do?”
    She nodded, her heart slowing down as her body relaxed, and she motioned to her face. “Your eyes. They’re not black. They’ve all got black eyes.”
    “That’s right. They do.” He didn’t add anything. How the hell could he explain to someone who didn’t know about the Project that monsters now walked the earth because of their experiments?
    She shivered even though sweat beaded on her brow. Brett frowned, his hand still out, and he got within an arm’s length of her. It wasn’t that warm.
    “How about we get you out of here, sweetpea? Get you checked out… you’re not looking so hot.”
    Nodding, she reached out and put her hand in his. Electricity arced between them at the first touch of her fingers. He gasped, the air snatched from his lungs as the darkness, the non-human part of him that craved blood and death, surged forward as though pulled toward her.
    A gasp that was matched by her. Her eyes darkened as she looked up at him in shock, then rolled back in her head as she folded up into a dead faint.
    “Shit.” He caught her just in time, hauling her close to his chest before she could hit the ground. Once he had her there, he couldn’t help but look at her. Curled up in the safety of his arms, she fit perfectly against his chest. She was light, weighing far less than he’d thought, but it was her skin that was cause for concern.
    “Crap. She’s burning up.”
    Instantly Fredericks was by his side, Dom and Kelwood standing guard. The other man reached out to touch her forehead, and Brett had to bite back a snarl. Fredericks shot him a glance, his hand in midair and his eyebrow raised. Brett nodded, not at all sure where the sudden possessiveness had come from. She was a victim, for fucks sake, not someone he needed to get attached to.
    Frederick’s brow snapped tight as he brushed the back of his hand over her temple. Brett bit back annoyance with himself. He should have checked that. Luckily, they’d all had some battlefield medical training. “Okay, that’s a hell of a temperature for a human to be running. She needs a hospital.”
    “No!” The snarl burst free before he could stop it, anger spilling over as he glared at the other man. “No hospitals. I’ll look after