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"Fox?"
He felt Melisande’s hand in his fur, felt his aniift And all of a sudden he could shift again In a spray of colored lights, he was once azed at him worriedly "What happened?"
But before he could answer her, he heard a shout
Fox’s head jerked up at the sound of the fa around the street corner half a block up, barefoot and unke no worse for wear
"Kara!" He ran toward her
She flung herself into his ar and pale, she looked up at him with eyes ith fear "I escaped But they’re after ain," he vowed Setting her on her feet and pulling her against his side, he turned to where Castin and Melisande stood watching theaze "Our Radiant, Kara"
Castin offered her a shallo "Radiant"
Kara looked up at Fox "I knohich way to go" She pulled away, started forward,them to follow "Come on We need to run They’ll be here any ht"
Fox waited for Melisande, relieved to see the battle fire back in her eyes Side by side, they followed Kara and Castin, throwing glances behind, but Fox saw no sign of the Mage
Shivers tore through hi on his ar way
Bloody fecking lying intuition!
"This way!" Kara called andcorpses of ancient an to slow Tears started running down her cheeks "I’ to kill us!"
"Kara"
But as Fox approached her, she lifted her hands as if to ward him off "Don’t touch me!"
He stared at her Those bastards had done a real number on her "Let ainst the side wall, knocking over one of the motorcycle husks "Don’t touch me I don’t want anyone to touch me!"
Fox felt a hard fist of dread Had they raped her? He frowned She’d leaped into his ar, we need to keep ," Castin said behind hi shot up out of the ground like talls, one in front of the the entire width of the alley High above, another piece for
Fox ain
With a htly inward
"They’re going to crush us!" Kara cried
Fox reached for Melisande’s hand
Castin shook his head "Not crush us They’ll pin us close to the bars, where they can easily reach us"
"Hell," Fox e’s hand and they’d be enthralled, puppets ould follow their Mage captors without a fight, right to their own doom Or to the doom of the Feral Warriors
Chapter Seventeen
As one, Fox and Castin leaped for opposite sides of the cage that spanned the narrow alley in this latest world along the Mage’s labyrinthine gauntlet Fox gripped the iron bars, throwing all of his weight, all of his strength into stopping the cage fro thee caled until the sweat ran down his temples and soaked his back, until his e wall just keptto kill us!" He was te
The thought stopped hi, or well, but if there was one thing he did know, she was no coward The Kara he kneould never screech
His scalp craith --anietable
Or Kara?
Holy shite
Destroy the key, and I destroy the ? If this was the true Kara? The thought that he ht accidentally kill his Radiant, Lyon’swith horror
"You okay?" Melisande asked at his elbow
As the contracting cage forced him back another step, he leaned close to Melisande’s ear "I don’t think she’s Kara"
Melisande looked at hiht be right I never felt like slapping the real one, not even when I hated all Therians In fact, I kind of admired her" She frowned, then ?"
"What if we’re not?" Melisande stroked his back, pleasing him utterly "Is there a way to test your theory?"
Goose buet another mishmash of intuitions She’s the real Kara She’s the key Lie down and go to sleep
Da a deep breath, he attempted to calm his mind He’d been at Feral House such a short tiht have afforded hiht not have And perhaps there wasn’t anything the Mage didn’t know since they had access to the real Kara and, possibly, her e reoddess help hi to think he did
He turned away fro Striding to Kara, he grabbed the screeching wo away froasped, cowered "It wasn’t ainst my will"
No, this woman was not Kara Lyon worshipped the air his mate breathed, and his mate knew it The real Kara wouldn’t believe, even for a second, that Lyon was angry with her
Goddess helpHe pulled his blade and, with one vicious swipe, cut off her head