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her and Gable could have punched the idiot for his smart-assed remark.
    “Let me rephrase that, then.” She stuck the key in the ignition. “I have no intention of having sex with either of you today.” Turning her key, she started the car. “In fact, it most likely won’t happen tomorrow either.” She leaned forward and held her stomach with a groan. “I don’t give a damn how much this shit hurts, you two can damn well take me out on a few dates and get to know me before you take over my life. Otherwise, we can all go crazy and get put down because I would rather die than jump into bed with two men I don’t know.”
    Reaching out, she closed her door, locked it and put her car in gear. She turned to give them a little wave as she pulled out onto the road, spraying gravel in her wake as she made a U-turn and headed back the way he and Malik had come.
    “She’s beautiful.” Malik said as he trotted to their car.
    “She’s gorgeous,” Gabe agreed.
    “Put that down and get in,” Malik said nodding to the cat.
    “That’s easier said than done.” Gable grimaced. “I tried to put the little pain in the ass down while you were talking to Carmen, but it keeps crawling up my arm, and it fucking hurts.”
    “It’s a female, isn’t it?” Malik chuckled, the ass.
    “Yes, it is.” Gabe curled his upper lip. “Don’t say a fucking thing.”
    “What’s your problem? It’s not as though I tell every female cat I see to fall in lust with you.” He opened the door and slid behind the wheel. “Get in the car with or without your little pussy. We can’t afford to lose Carmen Satriano. That delicious-smelling little brunette holds our futures in her delicate little hands.”
     

Chapter Five
     
     
    Carmen sped away from the two men with her thoughts racing and her body on fire. She knew what experiencing the mating heat meant. She also knew that the two men could only hold out for so long before the madness overcame them and they took her by force. She didn’t want that, especially after finally finding them and discovering just how deliciously handsome they both were.
    Taking her by force would mean an end to their lives. At that point, they would be no better than rabid animals, and her people would put them down with extreme prejudice. No one harmed a woman in Paradise and Gods help anyone who did.
    It was exactly why she wasn’t taking any chances. She needed to put as many miles as she could behind her as she headed toward Paradise.
    The closer she got to her uncles’ home town, the safer she would be. The men in Paradise would see to it that the two men who were, no doubt, following her would give her the time she needed to get to know them before she agreed to spend the rest of her life as their woman.
    It wasn’t that Carmen was afraid to mate with someone. She merely wanted to know that the men fate had designed as her mates, weren’t crazy criminals led by the old council, who would hold her prisoner for the rest of her life. Yes, they were shifters. She just didn’t know what kind of shifters and that bothered her.
    She glanced at her ruined phone and wished that she’d thought to take the damned thing out of her pocket before she ran into the water to save a kitten that she’d never had to touch.
    Carmen smiled when she thought of Gable’s expression when he held the poor frightened little kitten. She almost convinced herself that she should fear no man with so much patience that he wouldn’t harm a house cat, even when it was clawing him the way it had been.
    The poor man had looked harried more than angry. It was as though he held a naughty child that he wasn’t sure how to handle. Now that she thought about it, wasn’t a kitten exactly like one of their own young? That the man hadn’t hurt the tiny animal was a sign, wasn’t it?
    Biting her lip, Carmen slowed down a bit. She probably shouldn’t try so hard to lose her mates, seeing as they had no idea who she was or where she