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Ellison watched hie obvious in the back The vehicle squealed away, leaving the faint bite of exhaust in the warer ran a few steps past Ellison and stopped, not bothering to keep his large, naked body out of the sunlight "You let theaze on Ellison "They were going to hurt the cub"

"No, they were going to steal the cub," Ellison said He leaned against the cool tunnel wall to catch his breath "I don’t knohat that’s about"

"I would have killed thee and reached to place his hand on Tiger’s formidable bicep "If you’d killed any of them, hell would rain down on Shifters, and you’d be captured, and possibly killed and dissected Connor’s trusting er jerked away froer was ferociously protective of all cubs--he’d lost the only one of his own, the hu it away froood-bye Lia crazily protective of the cubs in Shiftertown

Ellison shared that obsessive protectiveness--er took it over the top

"Trust uy, there are other ways," Ellison said "We have their equipood look at them and their SUV We’ll find them and persuade theainst human law too, and Kiet theer looked unconvinced But at least he turned away and went back into the tunnel

Broderick was just finishing fighting his way out of the net "Bastards, fking bastards Why didn’t you kill the a second ti around, growling and beating the air, doing a little victory hop as though he’d chased off the bad guys single-handedly The joys of being a cub

"Maria is safe," Tiger said

As soon as the words left his mouth, Maria’s voice ca?"

Maria followed her voice, her words dying as she ran into the light of the LED lanterns and found herself facing three large, naked Shifters and one cavorting polar bear cub

Ellison watched her expression turn from concern for Olaf to shock at the three tall Shifters with anie in their eyes, and then dissolve to stark, remeht when she hadn’t recognized Ellison, her own brother Maria was reliving a moment of her captivity

She shook it off in the next second, grabbed Olaf by the scruff, and started dragging hi in his feet in and wailed in protest, but Maria was relentless

The heightened senses of Ellison’s wolf felt her grief and fear, her fight for sanity He wanted to find the Shifters who’d hurt Maria and grind them to powder