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"What?"

"Get to the house, Kiowa Now" Dash’s voice was low, i, he just turned and shot into a dead run down the ave him the speed and endurance he needed to make it to the main house where Dash waited at the door

"Listen to ainst the entry wall before he could rush down the hall to the Lab entrance "She’s in pain, Kiowa And it’s bad But she has to finish this What’s going on right now is too important to stop"

Dash was pale, his blue eyes dark with concern and bleak knowledge

"What the fuck are you doing to her?" He fought the other man’s hold, and would have broken free if both Callan and Kane hadn’t lent their strength to holding him still

"I’ll kill all of you," he snarled then

"And you’re welcoht now, you have a mate determined to do what she needs to, and she needs you We can’t hold her, Merinus or Elizabeth can’t either You have to hold her, Kiowa She can’t do this alone"

"You’re crazy" He could hear her now The screao!"

"Kiowa, listen to , inside her" Dash shook hi "She’s in full ovulation with the sper to fertilize This is important, Kiowa For God’s sake, for all of us, the hor from her womb now has never been detected before, Kiowa, and in such sh sa in her womb, while Martins follows the ovulation Listen to ed, his eyes furious, desperate "For all of us, Kiowa Yourfor all of us, help us"

"Kiowa…" He could hear her screaony as it penetrated the careful construction of the Labs

"Kiowa For our species For all of us If we could do so to make this easier on ourwhen they learn of it We’re walking a tightrope between life and hunting season Help us"

He snarled furiously, throwing his head back against the wall as her cry echoed around hie of fury had hirasps as he rushed to the opened steel door at the end of the hallway He hit the stairs at a run, taking them five and six at a time until he vaulted to the steel floor and rushed into the htical chair, her legs strapped to the stirrups, her arhs, Dr Grace worked slowly as Dr Martins kept watch on a monitor attached to the camera that was obviously at thetheir attention, causing Elizabeth and Merinus to rush between him and Dr Grace

"A the straps on her arms as he bent to her "Hold onto me,"

he pleaded at her ear as she cried out his name "Hold onto me, baby The minute you say the word it stops I’llfor breath, her face streaked with tears as her arrip

She screa to bow, the straps across her waist and chest holding her firer" Elizabeth was beside hins The er to her, we’ll stop"

Kiowa shook his head He didn’t want to hear it

"The sper that dropped There’s a s it fro into her blood, heightening the arousal That’s what’s causing the pain It’s not you touching her…" Elizabeth continued

"It’s the er force to break through the shield Dr Grace is atteet small quantities of the hor the shield too ainst it It weakens the sper Only a minute amount of that sperenetics That’s why the reater quantity of spernore It was a miracle she cae in her blood immediately, just from the studies she’s done on mine and Merinus’s This could be e’ve waited for…"

Her voice droned on over A profusely, her skin cold and pale as she shuddered in his grip then tried to arch in agony as a wail echoed around him

"I love you," he whispered in her ear then, unable to hold the words back, to ste inside his heart "Let me stop this, Aasped, her nails digging into his shoulders as convulsive tremors shook her body "Have to Have to For both of us, Kiowa"

"We’re alhened, and Kiowa hated realizing that

"Just a little bit more"

"The viable sperm have nearly exhausted themselves," Dr Martin reported "As soon as you’re finished, extract the cah, then it’s God’s will"

God’s will Nature’s curse

Kiowa clenched his teeth as Aain

"Kiss me, Kiowa," she cried out then "Please I hate this I hate sounding like this Make ue plunging inside her as she met him with a desperation that broke his heart

Her lips sucked at his tongue and he tasted the release of the horave her what she needed He muffled her screams, held her to his chest and did all he could to coher

"My God…" Dr Grace’s voice was ecstatic "My God Dr Martin, look at that Do you see the change? It’s a new horive a dah both their lives depended it, and though she still flinched and shuddered with pain, at least those agonized cries had been s Finally Hours later, Kiowa carried Aently in the bed they had shared and pulled the blankets around her She had finally escaped the pain the only way she could She had passed out