"Ouch! Jenna, dammit, why'd you go and do that for?"Jenna pushed her 9 back into its holster. "Dougie," she breathed, feeling as if the air could fina...ly release from her lungs. "What are you doing here?" Justin knew I was around watching you guys work on the dead body and he called me. He asked me to make sure you made it to your car okay." He took the hand that she gave him and let her help him up. Standing, he dwarfed her, his massive body solid with muscle that he'd worked for years to. Larry screamed in pain and loss as the bond was ripped from his soul, and it took three of us to hold him down. The doctor approached again, checking her eyes, then her heart. "She's dead," he said to the Chairman. "Release her, and let him have his mate's body," Francois said before they turned to leave along with the crowd. When she was on the ground and the Enforcer who had beat her was gone, we let Larry go and he ran to her side. He picked her broken body up and held it in his lap as he. He appeared so lifelike that she’d thought he was a real man when she walked in. It was a bit much to take in. She was ready to just head upstairs in shock when Declan spoke to her again. “Did you have an interesting day at work Marissa?”Marissa laughed, “You ask about my day too? Well Declan, I had a rather difficult day if you want to know. Then I come home to this and I am just speechless.”Declan smiled a pretty natural-looking smile and said, “I’m sorry. I should have asked Ben to put some. Instantly, everything was enveloped in flames with a loud ‘POOF’, creating a conflagration that spread to all four vehicles.I had considered putting out of the fire with a spell, but Al interrupted me.“This wasn’t an accident,” he told me, much to my surprise.“It wasn’t?”“No, but who ever planned it didn’t realize that there was a Ley Line that crossed this street near the intersection. Otherwise, we would have been the intended center of the ‘accident’,” he told me.“So whoever planned it.