Page 51 of Anger

Mac was actively checking his contacts to track Alainen down. They’d narrowed him to being in England, but the question was where?

Lanie had emailed Laura, stating she’d be working from home, which should protect the people who worked for her. Laura had been told to set up video conferencing for Lanie’s meetings.

The next issue was Ranson and Mac wanted Lanie out of the house and somewhere safe. Ranson wanted Lanie to go to Refuge, but because of the time difference, that wouldn’t work. They could go to the castle, but Mac and Ranson weren’t welcome. They were all on edge and twitchy.

“Something has to give,” Lanie said three days after her decision to stay at home.

“We’ve been searching for Alainen for years. We won’t find him overnight,” Mac replied.

“So, let’s set a trap with me as bait,” she suggested.

“Hell no!” Mac exclaimed, and Lanie flinched back a little.

“Something has to give, and nothing is happening,” Lanie argued.

“Things are, I get you’re fired up, but you can’t risk everyone’s safety because you’ve a bee in your bonnet,” Mac retorted.

“That’s what you think this is about?” Lanie demanded.

“I don’t know because you are not exactly explaining your thought process!”

“Wow!” Lanie snapped.

“Lanie. Everything is being investigated. Every little lead we have is being tracked. Simon Clare’s life is being turned upside down. Simon had to meet Alainen somewhere, if we can find that, then we could narrow Alainen’s position down. Right now, two hundred people from Refuge are working their asses off in real time. They’ve left Refuge.

“They are putting themselves in danger to locate Alainen. Do you understand the risk they are taking? They’re doing that because this is the closest we’ve ever got to one of the Five. Simon Clare has given Alainen a weak spot. Even if Alainen kills the little prick, he remains a link. Because Simon isn’t clever. He’s a kid out of uni who doesn’t know how to hide his past. And it’s doubtful that Alainen would have bothered to teach him. Simon is another throwaway human for him,” Mac said.

Lanie listened carefully and took in his words.

“But if I come out and show myself, we’d get him quicker,” she insisted.

“Yeah, and how many would die bringing Alainen to justice? Who would you sacrifice, Lanie? Me, Ranson? A man who just had a baby, a woman with a family depending on her? They face a war as it is. Whose life will you gamble to catch Alainen?”

“That’s harsh,” Lanie replied.

“That is the facts. Which lives are less valuable to you?”

“I get it!” Lanie exclaimed as she rose to her feet and paced back and forth.

“No, you don’t. Do you want to know how many families I’ve told that their loved one won’t come home? Thirty-seven death announcements I’ve had to make. I do not throw life away needlessly, nor do I take unsupported risks. If Anger gets free and there’s no Shifter close by, what then? There are repercussions to you being bait. And damn it, I care about you, in fact, I’m falling in love with you. So, yeah, I don’t want you in danger,” Mac spat.

Lanie’s jaw dropped open. Her mouth worked for a few seconds as she tried to get her words out. “You’re in love with me?”

“Near enough. You are everything I want and didn’t know it. Apart from right now, because you’re being an idiot,” Mac snapped.

“Well, thank you!” Lanie shouted.

“You’re welcome!” Mac snarled, grabbing her and hauling her close.

Mac pulled her head back and kissed her hard. Lanie gasped into his mouth as her body responded to his anger, and she was aroused for the first time in forever. Mac backed Lanie against a wall and lifted her up. Lanie instantly wrapped her legs around him as she kissed him with all the pent-up frustration she had.

For days now, being in close proximity had been driving her mad. And Mac’s little touches or sneaky kisses were making her just as crazy.

She wanted Mac, and something deep inside her called out to him. And Lanie was going to give in. She was going to fuck the brains out of Mac and enjoy it.

Lanie hissed as Mac broke off the kiss and sucked hard on her throat. That made her wetter. Lanie clung to his shoulders as Mac’s cock pressed into her core, and she mewed as she moved her hips against it. Mac kept Lanie pinned to the wall as he cupped her neck and kissed her again.

“I want you,” Lanie gasped when the kiss ended.

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