A Shock to Your System (Dangerous Creatures #2)

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gun."
    He was clearly still pissed about that.
    "And you blasted me with enough electricity
to shock me unconscious. That really fucking hurt, just so you
know."
    "Not more than the flesh ripper, I'll
bet."
    "That's not the point, Jamie. Any other
hunter could've had you euthanized for that."
    "You're still wrong about sending
paranormals to the labs. And you're wrong about that girl. Maybe
she is on the wrong side of crazy because of what happened to her,
but her friends looked scared out of their minds. You were in a net
and screaming and they still wanted to get away from you."
    "I'm not so sure it was me that the boys
wanted to get away from."
    Jamie still looked angry, and Ethan was
tired of this. "I don't want to fight anymore."
    The silence in the air sucked. The fact that
Jamie was sitting so close, and Ethan couldn’t even touch him, was
the absolute worst.
    "Are you hungry?" Jamie asked. "I ordered a
pizza and some sodas."
    Ethan managed a smile. "Of course you would
order junk food."
    "Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Jamie
asked, but at least he was smiling now.
    "It means that I noticed all the takeout
boxes in your fridge that one time you had me over. Pizza was
definitely a favorite of yours," he said, wincing only a little as
he shifted into a better sitting position. However, he didn't take
his eyes away from Jamie's face.
    Now that the man was smiling and even
blushing a little, Ethan was reminded of just why he'd enjoyed
being around Jamie so much.
    He was so damned cute, it should've been
sinful.
    "Not exactly the best for a recovery, but
it's the best food to butter you up with so you'll let me go later
on," Jamie said, still grinning, like he didn't realize what he'd
just said.
    Was he under the impression that he was in
Ethan's custody? That was the last thing that was happening here.
If anything, Ethan was at Jamie's mercy. Didn't he see that?
    "Pizza should be just fine for a
recovery."
    Jamie frowned as though he didn't believe
him. "Really?"
    Ethan nodded. "Carbs, protein and fat for my
body to burn would be great right about now."
    Jamie lit up. Not literally or anything, but
his smile was certainly bright. "Okay, great!"
    How could he have ever thought to bring him
to Head Office? A guy who smiled like that didn't belong there.
"I'm not going to turn you in."
    Jamie's eyes popped open wide. "What?"
    Ethan took in a deep breath. "Don't ever
repeat this to anyone. None of your paranormal friends can ever
know. Just...say you got away or something. You got lucky and
escaped. I won't turn you in."
    "Why not?" Jamie asked. "You were so gung-ho
about it before."
    Jamie still sounded so
hurt and offended by that. "I wouldn't say I was gung-ho about it, but I
don't want to hand you over to the collectors after you saved me
from basically getting thrown into a meat grinder
either."
    Jamie again didn't say anything for a few
seconds. In the short amount of time that they'd been dating—or,
well, been meeting up to fuck each other—Ethan had realized that
the man was the sort who liked to think before he spoke.
    Didn't mean he always did a good job of it,
though.
    "So, you're going to let me go because you
feel you owe me," Jamie said, and it wasn't a question.
    "I guess that's the reason," Ethan
replied.
    "And it had nothing to do with us?" Jamie
asked.
    The bright lights of a vehicle flashed
across the windows and the room, cutting through even the shut
curtains of the motel room they were in, and Jamie tensed up. The
man almost came right out of his seat, as if getting ready to run
in case the lights came from a collector's van that was here to
take him away.
    Ethan watched him. When nothing happened,
Jamie relaxed into his seat again as the car drove off.
    Ethan's heart was speeding like it was on a
thrill ride, and it had nothing to do with the fear of being caught
by the collectors. It was everything, Jamie's scared-as-a-rabbit
reaction, his words, his actions.
    Fuck. Jamie might as well have

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