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"Open the damn safe"

"It isn't out here It's in the back In the office"

"So we go in the back"

Elizabeth rabbed her His blood boiled, the Shifter in hi Not yet Not yet But the bastard would pay for hurting her

Elizabeth and her robber went by the end of the aisle, the guy carrying his shoulder bag, his gun shoved into Elizabeth's side The look on Elizabeth's face was blank, resigned She thought she was about to die She didn't look around at the faint sound of Ronan shucking his jeans; never turned her head to spy hiaze straight ahead, focused on the office door and the potential money behind it

Elizabeth fuhts were off The robber shoved Elizabeth inside in front of hiht switch

That's my cue

Ronan shifted, and charged

Elizabeth heard a se barreled at her in deadly silence She saw a giant face, a antic neck, and wide dark eyes with murder in them

The robber, a young man with black hair and dark eyes, still had his hand on the light switch In the next instant, the doorframe and wall around it splintered, and the robber found himself knocked to the floor with a Kodiak bear on top of him

Elizabeth scrarabbed the pepper spray she kept in her drawer, and snatched her cell phone out of her pocket at the sa in shock as the young ainst all odds with the colossal bear on her Victorian pile rug

The robber's gun went off with a boom of noise Elizabeth screa the walls, and blood splattered to spray the floor

The bear drew back a paith six-inch claws and backhanded the robber across the face The guy's head rocked Still he fought, and the bear struck again This ti in an ungainly heap

The bear clireat head around, and fixed red-raged eyes on Elizabeth

He was the biggest living creature Elizabeth had ever seen On all fours, the bear stood about six feet tall at the shoulder, which put his head well above Elizabeth's His breath huffed between i froaze still locked on hers, he took a step toward her on one massive paw

Elizabeth brought her hand up, aiave him a full dose

The bear blinked, drew back, blinked again, sat down on his hind legs, and rocked his head all the way back Then he sneezed