Aedan: Harrison Ambush – Erotic Tiger Shapeshifter Romance by Kathi S. Barton Page B

join the FBI to help them out.” Figures, more things for him to have to worry about. “I don’t suppose you ever thought of what this is going to do to her, did you?”
    What do you mean, to her? I’m the one that is taking a mate. I’m the one that’s going to have to change everything I’ve worked for over the last year and a half. Hell, most of my life. She laughed and he felt his peace evaporate just like that . I don’t see how this is the least bit funny, Andi.
    “Don’t you? I do. You were never like this, this selfish, when I first came here. I can understand why you didn’t fuss when Stormy came to your family. She’s scary even when she’s in a good mood. But you just went along with me being a part of this family too, didn’t you?” He asked her what she meant by that. And when she stood up, he did as well. “I messed with your plans, didn’t I? I mean, I came to this family for a job and security. Who knew that I was going to have to murder two people to get it? One of them was my aunt. And I had a very good friend killed too. Was that in your flow charts and pies?”
    No. And I don’t think you’re thinking of this from my point of view. I have a mate now that is going to need things from me that I just don’t have time to deal with. Andi smacked him on the end of his nose and he saw stars. What the fuck was that for?
    “That’s for being childish. And I should hit you again for being a jackass. Yes, you’re a jackass. Let the great and powerful Aedan Harrison tell you his woes while his mate, new to this family, lies up in a stranger’s bedroom bleeding and in a great deal of pain. Let me not also point out that you could make her better with just a small effort. But I guess for you, Aedan the Powerful, that’s asking too much. Perhaps I should go and make a few calls. I’m sure that I can have that man come here and take her off your hands so you won’t have to have your precious plans fucked up.” She hit him again, and this time he felt it cut into his mouth. “That one was for ruining my walk, you selfish overgrown prick.”
    Aedan laid back down. He was pretty sure that one, if not all, of his brothers was going to be after him as soon as Andi got home. He could hear her crying even now. Looking at the water, he thought of what she’d said to him and hurt for it. Not because of what she said, but because he was afraid that she was right. He was a selfish prick.
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    Nikki held tightly onto her temper. She wasn’t sure what, at this point, had pissed her off more. The Harrison man who had tried to feel her up, the doctor who was laughing at her right now, or the woman sitting in the chair telling her that she wasn’t going anywhere without an escort. Finally having enough, she reached up under the pillow she was laying on and wasn’t surprised to find her gun there. Mason had said he’d make sure she had it when he came for her. Pulling it out, she put it on the forehead of the man leaning over her laughing. Surprise, surprise, he stopped laughing immediately.
    “I’m not in the best of tempers.” He said he could see that. “You’re not helping me by laughing at me either. I fucking hurt and I’m confused, not a good combination even on my best days, which isn’t all that often. But you’re pissing me off more.”
    “I wasn’t laughing at you, but at Aedan.” She asked him who that was. “The man’s bed that you’re currently in. The guy that tried to order you around…your words, not mine. And this is also his house. Do you think you could stop trying to make that weapon a decoration in my head for a moment? I only have one more stitch to put in.”
    Nikki felt the tears. “I hurt badly. I think that I’m going to be sick too. Do you suppose you could, I don’t know, back off for a minute when you’re done with that one? I don’t want to have to puke on you and tear out the stitches again.” He lifted his hands from her body, but she just couldn’t