{"id":3523,"date":"2009-11-03T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2009-11-03T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T04:00:12","slug":"30-days-of-giveaways-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2009\/11\/30-days-of-giveaways-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Giveaways…#2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hunter's Need...releases 12\/1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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His gaze cut to her and she managed to keep from flinching as his dark gray eyes connected with hers.\u00a0 She lifted a hand, waved hesitantly, but he didn\u2019t acknowledge her.\u00a0 He just turned his away and strode across the rubberized floor.\u00a0 She knew where he was going\u2014the training area on the second level.\u00a0 Right now, there was a class in progress for the advanced students; fighting skills, but not exactly the kind of fighting one would encounter at any legit dojo.<\/p>\n

Martial arts were definitely taught, but the advanced students, the ones most likely to be approached about joining the Hunters, weren\u2019t just taught self-defense.\u00a0 Duke was currently one of the Hunters assigned to help train\u2014she knew, because she did her best to quietly learn everything about him that she could.<\/p>\n

As much as she could learn without him realizing it, anyway.<\/p>\n

Considering she\u2019d once been party to his kidnapping and torture, she doubted he\u2019d be too happy knowing that she was obsessed with him.\u00a0 None too happy with knowing that she still dreamed about him, more than four years after the night he\u2019d had the bad luck to meet up with her.<\/p>\n

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Too fucking twitchy for this, Duke thought as he squared off with a young vampire.\u00a0 Young in vamp years, but not human. Shawn Lenning would have celebrated his fiftieth birthday in just a few months if he hadn\u2019t been attacked one night.\u00a0 Not a random attack, though.\u00a0 He\u2019d been heading to his car after leaving work.\u00a0 Parked on a side street in a less than respectable area of East St. Louis, he\u2019d heard the sounds of struggle, a woman screaming and he\u2019d gone to help.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t just the average rape he\u2019d interrupted.\u00a0 The woman survived, Shawn Lenning was technically listed as missing and presumed dead, and his life would never be the same.\u00a0 Duke could sympathize.\u00a0 He knew what it was like to have your entire life changed in the blink of an eye, although at least Duke had been a little prepared.\u00a0 A natural shifter, he\u2019d known pretty much all his life that there was a whole hell of a lot more to the world than mortals thought.<\/p>\n

Shawn had just been simply human.\u00a0 Courageous and decent, willing to risk his neck for a woman he didn\u2019t know, but just a human and he hadn\u2019t known a damn thing about natural shifters, vampires, psychics\u2026<\/p>\n

Pretty blonde psychics with eyes the color of violets and a mouth he could still taste, even four years later.<\/p>\n

Life would be easier if he didn\u2019t have to know about that particular psychic, Duke suspected.\u00a0\u00a0 After what she\u2019d done, it wasn\u2019t a big surprise that every time he saw her, it hit him on a deep, visceral level.<\/p>\n

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Just a quick reminder on the contest:<\/p>\n