Elemental Moon: The Eldritch Files, Book Three by Phaedra Weldon

revealed his incredible blue eyes. "I'm not diable to a Lycan. That's you."
    Levi had started calling Crwys 'Lo a lot lately and I couldn't figure out why. When I asked Crwys, all he would say was it was a childhood name.
    "You shouldn't be here," Bastien pointed at Crwys.
    "Neither should you, Lassie. The agreement was you stay in your woods and it stays government protected land."
    Lassie? I stepped back from Crwys and looked at him like he'd lost his freak'n mind. Yeah, Crwys was tall and wiry and sexy, but Bastien was a good foot and a half taller, and he's a wolf.
    Let me repeat — he is a wolf!
    Bastien looked from Crwys to me and back to Crwys. “ Ma petite was yours?"
    Crwys pulled me close to him. "Is."
    Bastien stepped forward and let loose a growl before he said, "I offer a challenge. For the right of petite ."
    Crwys stood up straight and sneered. "I accept."
    I pushed back and held out my hands. "Whoa, both of you. Wait a second. No one consulted me on this. I date whom I choose, not the other way around. And before we start showing who's got the bigger balls, we have a job to do because whether you like it or not, Mr. LeBlanc, I do not want to be your mate. Got it?" I glared at Bastien. "Got it?"
    " Oui ."
    Crwys snorted.
    I whirled on him. "And you …be nice. Don't think this is over. I plan on finding out why Jack called you a fire demon."
    He grinned and I was happy to see the amber return to his eyes. "Jack is mistaken. And you can't possibly think I'm going to trust this schmuck after he forcibly marked you."
    "She didn't fight."
    I pointed at Bastien. "Stop it! I didn't know what you were doing." I grabbed an English breakfast tea and started steeping it. Bastien grabbed a honey lemon and Jack grabbed a chai. All of this was done in silence, except for Mom talking to me about her ordeal and the four of them giving each other ugly looks. No one said another word out loud until we were seated at the table, each with a mug of tea. I made sure I sat away from both of the big boys.
    "The body in the morgue isn't one of the Aces. She isn't even a full wolf." I sipped my tea and let the warmth do its job.
    Bastien finished his tea and stood to refill the kettle and start it heating again.
    Levi held up his hands. "You guys were in the morgue?"
    Everyone nodded. I said, "Yeah, I was looking for the body when Ivan—"
    Wait…where was Ivan?
    Speaking his name brought him to the forefront of everyone's mind. Grey was on the floor beside my chair and perked her head up as well.
    "Sam," Kyle said. "Have you talked to him since the morgue?"
    "Ivan was in the morgue too?" Crwys asked. The two cops did not look happy.
    "He was in the security system," I said to Crwys before I turned to Kyle. "No. I haven't."
    "I'll call," Kyle retrieved his phone.
    "Back up," Crwys said. "Ivan broke into the hospital security system so you could go looking for the mutilated body."
    I frowned at him. "You're learning our M.O."
    "Do you know how many laws he broke doing that?"
    I stared at Crwys. Since when was this guy worried about rules? "Ivan's good at what he does. Are you afraid they'll catch him?"
    "Aren't you?"
    A shrug was my best answer. "No. I trust him. Look, why are you so weirded out?"
    Crwys stood and came around the table to offer me his hand. "We need to talk in private. Please?" he asked.
    I took it and stood. He led me toward my office, away from the break room area. I felt Bastien's eyes on us and glanced over at him. He looked…irritated. Crwys turned us around so that my back was to Bastien. "Sam, think about this. It occurs to me, or maybe I'm just suspicious by nature, that the Magical Parliament is more interested in keeping your Elemental Gifts locked up. They passed them around the table like party favors. That gives them the false sense of security that you're power less ," his gaze searched my face. "They have the copy of the Hammer. They dismissed the charges against Arden, and have made a public statement