"What ya doing?" A voice asks from above me. I close my eyes and groan internally.

"Trying to find silence." I mutter.

"Hmm, looks more like you are spying on Marcos, Hayes." Nisha asks, dropping from the tree next to me where I hide and watch Marcos as he examines Kyra.

"I'm not spying on Marcos." I say defensively. She steps up next to me, looking straight ahead, and then she chuckles.

"So, are you going to apologize to her?"

I ignore her as I focus on Marcos' gentle, unmaimed hands as they glide across her bruised back. He eases her to the side, checking out the bruise on her abdomen, his thumb inching too close to her breasts-

"Hayes," Nisha says, stepping in front of me. Her dark brown eyes lock on mine as I clear my throat and look away quickly. "Seems like she is has gotten under your skin."

"She is not," I scoff, turning my back on Nisha and walking deeper into the trees. Every step away from where Marcos is touching Kyra feels like a brick is added to my body weight, sinking me further into the ground making it impossible to move further.

"What'd she do to you then?" Nisha pounces in front of me with a glimmer of excitement in her eye. Her short loose curls bobble with her head as she tilts it to the side, waiting for an answer.

"Kyra and I are old friends. She didn't do anything to me." I say firmly. It's the truth. When it comes to hurting Kyra, it seems I am almost always the root cause, and it sucks just as much now as it did back then.

"Oh," Nisha laughs as she covers her mouth. "Oh, you feel guilty."

My shoulders slump and I frown as I look directly into the thin werewolf's eyes.

"I feel bad she got hurt, yes, but my motive was justified." I clip out. "Kyra does not belong here. She shouldn't have been allowed on this mission."

Nisha makes a face, one that says 'interesting but I disagree' and I roll my eyes. Of the group we have with us, Nisha is annoyingly the most perceptive. Though Dean may be as well, he is much better at controlling his face when it comes to things he disagrees with. "Keep your opinion to yourself, Nisha." I warn her and she puts her hands up, feigning innocence.

say anything,"

louder

of contention between us. But her desire for revenge is just as strong as the rest

with Koda." She says, as she waggles her

and she rolls her

wry smile. "Keep looking at me like that and I might almost be convinced you are

and I glare

stands in my way. This time, her hands land on my chest and she gives me a soft, sad look. "Wait. You owe Kyra an apology, Hayes. And you should do it sooner rather than later." She says, a demanding look on her face that makes

you know it. Keep that shit up and you will lose crew members." She rivals my angered gaze with her

out, shoving her aside as I storm back to

Marcos crosses a line and she is too weak to handle herself? Not that Marcos would ever do such a thing, but my mind can't think

my right,

and then he chases

I growl at him and he looks at me like

says. "Koda is tracking him now, making

Dean as he watches the realization

the second one that Kyra mentioned?"

area, so for it to be a separate incident, it would be pretty

good hand

confusion. "He is near the

where Koda is hunkering down and watching the

I snort a laugh.

who hurt her. And I will kill this that, I can do anything neto fucker who thinks it is okay to

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