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Ellison also scented Tiger and Maria behind hith Maria was the gentler of the two, like the cinnamon and honey she put on her buñuelos She sht, a beacon in the darkness

Ellison knew she’d hesitated following Olaf because the underground reminded her too much of her captivity Ellison and she shared that hatred of the close darkness, which represented to both of them imprisonment, slavery, and terror

Another odor assaulted Ellison’s nose and had Broderick growling Hu a polar bear Shifter as they should be

They weren’t afraid yet Ellison sped up and charged around a corner into a second culvert

Three huht behind the and over the polar bear cub who stood defiantly before them One man had a tranquilizer rifle, pointed at Olaf, and the other two held a large net between theave in to his wolf’s rage He charged, his Collar sparking hard

The scent frorown Shifter as a different thing froh they’d have found Olaf a handful But the gunman still had the tranq rifle, and he raised it to point it at Ellison

Ellison let his body hit the ground, under the rifle’s ai him from his feet The man yelped as Ellison ran into him, and dropped the rifle, which went off as it spun around, the tranq dart flying The dart hit nothing, clattering to the floor to be lost in the darkness

In the nextin, in the form of his timber wolf He hurtled toward thesparks, but Broderick didn’t let the Collar slow him down The net men spun with quick reflexes, ready to snare him

They’d done this before, Ellison realized The threeto pick up the rifle and reload it while theover Broderick

Ellison went for the gunain His heavy wolf body crushed thehim drop the rifle once more, and Ellison heard a bone snap

Sparks zapped Ellison hard, and pain ran like fire through every nerve Fucking Collar Ellison could control the Collar when he fought in the rings at the Shifter fight club, because his brain knew then that he didn’t really want to kill the Shifter against him