Chapter 146

He snorted humorlessly. “That does not make me a hero. You would never have been in Danger if it weren't for me.”

“They're the Danger, Gabriel. Not you.”

He was about to argue when some thing cracked quietly in the trees in the back of them. Gabriel flew away from her, shouting in her head for her to STAY DOWN!

Gasping, Amelia rolled over and let herself sink low in the water so only her face was above the surface, maintaining herself low and shut to the rock and underbrush behind it, praying whoever was there couldn't see her.

Gabriel leaped out of the water to his feet on the other aspect of the rock in a crouch. He was naked, his pores and skin steaming from the heat pool, but he placed himself between her and the noise, one hand lower back to urge her to remain down and away.

Hunched over his own knees, he peered through the bushes, his chest increasing and contracting quickly, but silently. Then he went very still, no longer even bre