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The screah the hly, her eyes wide as she atteh the darkness Okay, as it Kiowa said? If you didn’t sreat Wild wolves and big cats, aher crazy and God only knehat else was coer worrying about silence or stealth What the hell was the point?
"Kane, we have unauthorized movement in Sector Three C," the female Breed communications expert, Tamber, reported quietly as Kane and Kioorked on the quirky progra to install to intercept web traffic from blood supre Three C was the area the s was located
"There’s no electronic indicator and the cats are heading that way"
"Fuck!" Kiowa came quickly to his feet "It’s Amanda Call them back"
He should have known her easy capitulation earlier that night had been no more than a ruse He had smelled her fury, her sense of betrayal at his refusal to allow the tests or to explain why Hoas he supposed to tell her that the sight of her enduring such pain stripped hiht tears to his eyes? That his chest had tightened and rage like nothing he had never known had filled his mind?
"Have Dawn’s unit intercept," Kane ordered quickly "We’re heading there now"
He threa one of the comm units they used as he attached his own to his ear
"Dawn isfor aniht not obey standard co female Breed at the communications table reported
"Have Merc ready the cycles," he snapped back at her "We’re heading out"
Kiowa tensed as he followed Kane at a run, fury building in his mind with each damned second Damn her, he hadn’t expected her to run How had she had the energy to run?
"The cycles will make quick work of the distance," Kane yelled as they approached the sound of powerfulinside ato beat her," Kiowa muttered "Dammit to hell I warned her"
"Goddammit, Kiowa," Kane cursed as they burst into the well lit shed, the wide doors shoved open
"How easy do you think this is on her? We should have expected it"
But they hadn’t, and because of his lack of foresight, Aer They jumped on the readied, powerful little cycles Built for speed and ned by Mercury, the towering lion breed who oversaw their care like arecklessly as they took a sharp turn around the driveway that led to the shed and headed up the graveled road into the mountain
"She’s made it more than afor thein fast so let’scloser She could hear their throttled screa out to each other, working in coordination to track her down Aht to keep fro down the mountain God only knehat lay at the botto to breathe as fear raced through her body and her oeakness slapped her in the face Surely it would have been easier to steal a cell phone She wouldn’t be eaten at any rate She tripped over soe feline screaled to get back to her feet, coestlion she had ever laid her eyes on He roared Opened his powerful jaws, displaying a ht in her face
"I taste really bad," she snapped, too scared to try to move as he leveled that eerie amber stare at her
"And I don’t have anyood…" she whi his lip and displaying the brutal teeth at the side of his rew fro a mature, able creature in his prime
"He doesn’t care irls who like to disregard measures set up for their own safety"
The fe around, only to earn her a sharp nip on her back fro in surprise as he roared again
"Can you call hiasped The little bite hadn’t hurt, but she would prefer not to have a chunk taken out of her
"Tiny pretty much does what he wants," the woman drawled softly, her voice soft, almost melodic as she came around Amanda and hunched down beside the aniainst the woaze too filled with sharp teeth to pay e aniainst the wo, obviously content for the ly enough, purred with a kittenish soft sound "Go lay down and I’ll talk to our visitor a minute Tanner will be here soon with your treat"
The lion’s head swung back to Aravation, but he turned and round and watching her closely
"I can’t connect with them very well," the wo tone "Just stay quiet and nice and unthreatening and he should be fine until Tanner and Cabal arrive They’re right behindher eyes off the lion
"Was I close?" she asked, her voice barely above a breath
"Not even close," she sighed "Actually, another twenty feet or so in this direction is a hidden ravine You ht not have survived the fall"
Amanda lowered her head dejectedly
"Is it so bad?" the woman asked her then, her voice reflective "My sister mated with Kane, he’s not a Breed, but he should have been one Is thehorrible?"