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Ria blew out a breath "I can’t ask hi asked
"Because then he’d think I was hinting at solance "If you don’t hint, how’s he going to know?"
Ria’s ainst that gyue in her s have a better sense of smell than humans He can probably scent your you-knohat"
Ria stared "Amber, what’s come over you?"
Her sister-in-law picked up another piece of cake "I’rin
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E to the restaurant, he caught the scent of the shooter and began tracking Dorian and Clay had both picked up the trail while he escorted Ria hoers rehness of the scratch that shouldn’t have been on her face The leopard paced
inside his skull, wanting out, wanting to do dae, but Emmett held on to his humanity For now
Minutes later, he found both Dorian and Clay standing frustrated at a busy intersection
"Fuck," E what they had The shooter’s scent si to pick hi around "No CCTV
cameras in this area We need to fix that"
E a slow circuit of all four points of the intersection It was clogged with people "Can’t have been a pickup It’d be too hard to etaway," he muttered almost to himselfand looked up
The old-fashioned fire escape ladder hung a few feet off the ground, just far enough up to confuse the scent trail with this le powerful jurace of the leopard he was No hu at full speed
Making it to the top of the building in seconds, he pursued the scent to the other side
Another ladder, this one looking down into a s what looked like a co the ladder, he ju several people scream His cat ensured he landed on his feet, his body perfectly balanced
Again, the scent was muddied by the number of people in the park But worse, a fewdisinfectant used to sanitize the nearby auto under his breath, he did a circle of the park and ca Frustration clawed at him He was certain this here the shooter had been picked up--on one of these narrow streets
Thrusting a hand through his hair, he was striding back the way he’d come when an old man waved him over "Here--he left his motorcycle parked on
the footpath Very rude" A piece of paper was put into his hand
Opening it, he found a license plate number Hot damn "Thanks" His cell phone was in his hand an instant later The elderly ah to the DarkRiver techs Changelings had y known to man--because if the coldly powerful Psy had a weakness, it was that they relied too e also came in handy when DarkRiver needed to hack into Enforceo with the license plate fivea teahn, and Clay, with Dorian holding a surveillance
position The young soldier was turning into one hell of a sharpshooter
"Hoe doing this?" Lucas asked as they got out of their vehicle a short distance from the shooter’s home, his eyes cold
"I want the bastard alive," Eet Vincent’s location" He glanced at Lucas "We’re skating way past the edge of the law here" Changelings had jurisdiction over crimes that involved their kind, but this shooter was ht--we’ll be seen"
His alpha shrugged "Let nal and they fanned out, co in at the suspect’s dirty trailer from all sides The bike sat near the back--and it was sticky with the scent Emmett had detected at the restaurant
Even that close, no one shot out at them, and a couple of seconds later, Emmett’s leopard picked up a new scent Blood Fresh and thick
"Godda what they’d find He was right
The shooter lay slumped over a rickety table, the back of his head blown off execution style
"Vincent knee’d picked up his scent," Lucas said,
taking in the scene from the doorway beside Emmett "I bet that blood is still war hiht be intel in there that could lead us to Vincent?"
Lucas nodded at the neighbors in the surrounding trailers, a feere openly staring "We can’t risk going in and giving the cops a reason to hassle us As it is, these folks saw us open the door, stand in the doorway No harm, no foul"
"I wouldn’t let it bother you," Clay said, breaking his custouy, he was expendable They’d have told him squat"