What A Demon Wants. Kathy Love

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      Jude didn’t move immediately; he stayed crouched over her, his large body protective, his heat warming her fear-chilled skin. And when he did move away, she oddly missed both feelings.

      He gestured for her to remain down behind the desk.

      After a moment, he said, “They’re gone.”

      Slowly Ellina stood, taking in the mess around her. Her brothers appeared to have left, but they had the last word. As always. Of course, this wasn’t the first time she’d seen her office in such overwhelming disarray; it was becoming a pattern.

      She stared at her destroyed office, her completely jumbled research notes littering the floor. All her hard work, strewn around, like nothing more than garbage.

      She didn’t feel like laughing now.