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and not talk about the elephant here in the room with us?”
    “That’s exactly what I think, because I have a few conditions before I agree to let you come home.”
    “You came here for me,” he pointed out, scowling as he picked up on one of his guys snickering under theirbreath. It sounded like Sam, and he knew the jackass was enjoying hearing him get his ass handed to him by a woman. “What do you want, Reyes?”
    Voice little more than a whisper, she kept her gaze locked on his, and said, “I want the bond broken.”
    His muscles pulled so tight he was surprised he didn’t shatter, a feeling of dread coiling through his insides that felt remarkably similarto fear. “It can’t be done.”
    “It can .”
    “What the hell are you talking about?”
    “Come home with me, Eli. Fight for your pack. And when the blood clears, you and I can erase what never should have happened in the first place.” She leaned forward in her chair, her eyes bright. “We can finally end this nightmare, once and for all.”
    “You really think you can do it?” he scoffed. “Breakan unbreakable bond?”
    “Yes.” She gave him a slow, determined smile. “I plan on breaking the hell out of it.”

Chapter 2
    C arla knew the instant he realized she wasn’t bullshitting him, his belligerent expression slowly giving way to shock.
    It was because of Eli’s supercharged bloodline and her own powerful alpha genes that they’d ended up in this mess. At least that’s what her friend Jillian believed had been the cause of her problems, landing her with a bond that was, but wasn’t.One that was only partially fixed in place, thanks to the crappiest timing in the universe. Or...maybe the luckiest, depending on how you looked at it. In Carla’s case, a partial bond was better than a full, un breakable one.
    As it was, she’d been able to manage without him. Oh, her heart had been battered and bruised for...well, for a long time after he’d abandoned her. But she’d been ableto go on, functioning without him.
    The only thing she hadn’t been able to do was crawl into bed with another man.
    Eli, from the look of things when she’d walked into the bar and found him with a scantily clad blonde passed out in his lap, hadn’t been suffering that particular symptom. And, God, did that tick her off.
    After all, it wasn’t like a guy who looked like him would havetrouble getting any woman he wanted in his bed. A man too gorgeous to be real—and certainly for his own good. Chiseled, rugged, and massive. Tall and broad and ripped with muscle. Golden skin. Ice blue eyes rimmed with dark, stormy gray. Thick, inky black lashes. He’d always worn his hair short when she’d known him but it was shaggy now, curling around his neck and ears. Messy in that way that moviestars spent a fortune trying to achieve, while Eli probably just ran his hands through it and let it dry. Unfair, how beautiful he was. A dangerous, primal predator who could slay with nothing more than a sarcastic twist of that bold, sensual mouth.
    He was so breathtakingly masculine, and so impossibly lethal. To the heart as well as the flesh. And she knew that lesson better than anyone.
    Taking a deep breath, she tried to calm down, knowing he could no doubt sense her every emotion. But it was difficult when inside she was seething with rage. She hated feeling this out of control. It wasn’t something she allowed, given her occupation. Anger made you stupid, and a hunter couldn’t afford to make careless mistakes.
    Neither could a woman.
    The silence that had settledbetween them was just about to the point where she wanted to snap at him to say something already, when the tall guy she’d seen him sitting with earlier approached the table. Thankfully without the blonde Eli had dumped in his arms. “I hate to interrupt, but we need to get out of here. They’re closing soon.”
    Eli nodded, then moved to his feet in a rippling display of muscle that his jeansand T-shirt did