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"The dark ned to force the spirits to choose the morally weakest--the ht hard against that dictate and ed to choose the one she wanted Others probably did, too But we already know Maxim was pure evil, so some of the animal spirits failed Bottos The new Ferals are each either the best or worst of their respective animal lines"

"Hoe knohich is which?" Lyon delanced at Jag "As we’ve seen, you can’t always judge aFro had been the resident bad boy, driving his Feral brothers to ular basis, until he ar’s voice was cool as ice "We collect all seventeen in the prisons"

Hawke’s hold on his aze slid to the female Feral, a cutie with dark, blue-tipped hair and a killer sh Falkyn was one of the newly marked seventeen, she was soon to be Hawke’s mate, and there was no doubt in any of their ar turned to the others,with his chief’s "Then we start over"

Start over Kill them

Falkyn wrenched free of Hawke’s protective hold "Grizz fought the darkness to help you You voted to trust hirunted "That was before Rikkert accused hi, then Paenther as he explained the altercation in front of the house a short tiainst his attacker

Hawke frowned "Whathiar said siuilt Not like that Only those with a fully functioning conscience We’ve seen his anger-ement issues It’s probably no surprise that he’s caused trouble before But we’ve seen evidence of honor in the aze flicked to Falkyn "And ours Because if we make one mistake, if we allow one evil Feral to remain within our ranks, we’re compromised Inir will find a way to use hio down, the Daemons rise, and the world as we knoill be over Everything we’ve fought for will be lost"

Lyon lifted his hand, drawing all attention back to him "We can’t start over until all seventeen are accounted for"

Jag snorted "As soon as word gets out that the new Ferals are all dead ood or bad"

"Then word can’t get out," Lyon said

Not for the first tioddess that he wasn’t one of the seventeen The return of the lost aniodsend Instead, thanks to the Mage, it was turning into a nightut instinct, but Lyon began to lay out a plan, and Fox re they needed right noas a wild-goose chase courtesy of the newbie If only his gut would offer hi useful

"Where’s Lyon?" Grizz de one of the Ferals’ brides Tall and attractive with a gun strapped at her waist, her naan with a D Delaney

"His office, I think," she said "I heard voices in there a o"

With a brief nod, Grizz headed toward the closed office door After the run-in with Rikkert, he’d started toward the rocky falls, then forced hi impossible now He’d lay it all out for Lyon, let the Feral chief decide hoanted to handle it

It was too fucking bad that there was no un a Feral Warrior once he was ’s breath He wasn’t a tea job

As he reached for the knob to Lyon’s closed office door, voices carried to him, low but audible His hand froze

"Rikkert will be easy to take down He hasn’t co to be the problerizzly into the prison without losing lily"

What the fuck? Grizz pulled his hand away fro this

"He won’t go easily, that’s for daht He allowed hirunt "Not if he figures out he won’t come out of the prisons alive"

Grizz’s blood ran cold

"He ht They’re all the best or the worst of their lines If we can just figure out how to identify those ere ood ones"

The best orthe worst? And as he? Not the best Definitely not the best But the worst? Hells balls

"You do realize that it could be months before we can round upor at least account forall seventeen"

"What choice do we have?"

"We’ll have to lure Grizz down there first He can’t be warned If he shifts, we’re grizzly food"

"When?"

"Tonight"

Grizz had heard enough He turned away from the door and strode down the hall to the foyer, his footfalls silent despite his size, his head pounding The fuckers were going to kill the new Ferals! Wipe them all out And dammit to hell, he’d been afraid of this because it was exactly what he’d do in their position Kill the infected ones and hope the next lot were the ones ured out that soht be true evil

He entered the foyer and headed for the door, veering at the last minute toward the hall table and the wooden bohere he’d seen soet nowhere on foot, not with Hawke and Falkyn hunting hi marked FORD ESCAPE and was five strides froht his ear and he turned to find Lepard co out of the basement, his face flushed with sweat, his short, nehite hair plastered to his scalp Another of the newly ic and had followed the evil Feral, Maxim, to Poland where he’d been forced to help in some kind of ritual to aid Satanan and his Daeht the darkness, allowing the good Ferals to capture him He wasn’t the worst of his line, Grizz would bet money on it Would he bet his life on it? Yeah, maybe he would

"Come with me," he told the snow leopard

Lepard looked at hi?"

"I saidcoht there was any chance theto kill hilanced down at hi, just stared at thehell, he didn’t knohat he was conveying, but Lepard seeuess I could use so the snow leopard et if he stayed Grizz led the way out the front door, spying the Ford in the wide, circular drive amid the impressive collection of other, faror what he was going to do, he had no idea So Overheard words replayed in his head If we can just figure out how to identify those ere meant to be marked