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"They were also hit," Judd guessed

"Soarten"

"Cubs hurt?" Indigo finally spoke

Hawke shook his head "It was in Chinatown, near their HQ Kids went cat and roared their heads off A teacher and several nearby shopkeepers got to theh for the attacker to blend into the streets and lose himself in the crowd He also found the ti"

No one had to ask what scent had been eot to be soht," Riley said "We going on alert?"

Hawke gave a negative shake of his head "Lucas says he has the situation under control He’s contained the spread of information, and the juveniles who know have been told it looks like a Psy setup He has the to track the attacker, which should keep them out of trouble"

"Not a bad result," Judd reo, you would’ve shed some blood over this"

"Maybe, maybe not" Hawke’s ice-blue eyes were alht, beautiful in a way Brenna had never before noticed He wasn’t the kind of man who invited that sort of appreciation - he was too male, too hard Exactly like Judd

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"There’s one lanced at the cabin and then back, soht not have been the Psy Others could have gained access to those weapons, hu to save your race, Psy? Who else would dare intrude on SnowDancer and DarkRiver territory?"

"What happens if you set up the doainst the Psy?"

Riley understood first "We wipe each other out, leaving the region open to takeover by a new dolohtly off to her senses, but she couldn’t put her finger on why "The Psy Council ignores hus don’t, but you still see them as weaker They’re not The Human Alliance has access to a massive amount of firepower and funds"

Hawke rubbed at his jaw "If we track the hyenas, we’ll have a starting point You get anything else?"

"They knehere they were going - they’d done their reconnaissance and done it well enough to know the cabin was supposed to be ematic nature asserted itself "If their point was to start a turf hy take out an isolated cabin?"

"First step" Judd’s voice was different So her fur the wrong way "A carefully planned and controlled escalation," he continued when no one interrupted "Sooner or later, noto start sniping at each other"

"He’s , to say the least "Stagger a series of small episodes and the bad blood builds up until, by the tih to talk it down"

"I want those hyenas" Hawke turned to Riley "The search here is yours Drew, you and Indigo escort Brenna back to the den I have to speak to Judd"

"I don’t need babysitters," Brenna said through clenched teeth, able to feel the roughness of the wolf in her throat "I’ll can get back on , that of an alpha who expected instant obedience "If they touch you, ill happen You’re a tactical weakness"

A ue "That’s a load of crock! Any one of the feets taken, it’ll have the exact saue with you about this" Hawke jerked his head "Move"

Brenna looked instinctively at Judd, knowing he was strong enough to take on Hawke He returned her stare, iht Because of the abduction and rescue, you occupy a different status in the pack You should return - the pack’s coherence is necessary to supporton top of what he’d said earlier, it also stoked her anger "What else did I expect fro to say but she couldn’t believe he’d turned on her like that - males were supposed to stick by their females, no one to such great lengths to ignore Judd was incapable of any loyalty but the one he’d already given his fao"

"Shift It’ll be faster"

Vicious anger raked its claws over her heart "No" Let the action to words, she took off, leaving behind both her packiven her up without pause

Judd watched Brenna until she ed up by the winter-blue trees Then he turned to the SnowDancer alpha Haatching him in turn, an inscrutable expression on his face For a race notorious for their es under wraps

"There’s not much more I can tell you aside from the exact make and models of the weapons I saw" He rattled off the numbers, but his attention was focused on the steady countdown of the timer in his mind Five, four, three, twofla a li, meant to occupy two planes Now only one was open to his down," Hawke said and his voice sounded flat to Judd’s altered senses "Like you said, these weapons aren’t exactly available at the corner store"