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The truck neared her, its fog lights on as well, and then it swerved into her lane Myka yelped and hit the brakes, trying to steer the pickup onto the road’s tiny shoulder

The pickup’s driver also hit his brakes, and the larger truck skidded sideways right at Myka Connor ripped the seatbelt froht with her seatbelt as the large black truck caer door at the same time the other truck finally halted, inches fro

Myka crawled out the other side of the truck, her legs watery, her sto into the darkness on the other side of a ditch

Before Myka could ask if everyone inside the truck was all right, the door slaht backup--three Shifters all as big as Nate and Spike, and one had a shotgun

"You’ll want to stop right there, bitch"

Great Here Myka was, standing on the side of the highway, all alone, facing down four towering, hard-bodied, enraged Shifters Gavan pinned her with his white-hot glare, the other three thugs ready to do violence on his behalf What had happened to Sean and Glory sitting on hied ht I could trust hiuess not"

"You can’t kill anyone," Myka said, planting her booted feet firo for Shifters killing each other, or hurting hureat in theory The human bureaus that dealt with Shifters constantly reassured the public that Shifters were contained, controlled, peaceful beings that wanted nothing more than to live in harmony with the world

In practice, here was Gavan and his three hench her with terror Myka had watched Shifters fight each other, ignoring their sparking Collars or at least not letting the Collars slow them down much Nate had shot Ronan, who’d be dead if he were hu Nate a lesson

At least Connor had run off with Jordan

Gavan was sniffing the darkness He nudged the nearest thug and pointed the direction Connor had gone "Go get theuys, anda four-year-old child through open fields? Myka shivered Go on, Connor

"Get in the truck," Gavan said to Myka

"Don’t think so," Myka said

"Put her in," Gavan said to his second henchman

The Shifter carabbed her by the aro rabbed her around the neck

His Collar sparked, but he didn’t ease the pressure "You give us trouble, I’ll kill you You sit still until Spike coo hoht--I don’t want trouble with humans But I’ll do what I have to do Got it?"