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"Tiger, what’s wrong?" Maria asked

Ellison glanced up Tiger’s warning rumble escalated, and then he roared

Ellison, Ronan, and Broderick sprang away froer did Ronan, too big to do anything but back up, knocked over a delicate gilded side table, the trinkets on its top shattering

The steel door burst open, and two large, sleek wildcats hurtled out, straight into the wolves and Ronan

Maria screa to aid the others, he ran at Maria, herding her back onto the foyer’s balcony Once she was there, he turned and sprinted back down the hall

What was Bradley doing with Shifters?

Her chest constricted Oh,to handle? she’d asked Pablo

The cheetahs had been wearing Collars, so not feral Stolen, she guessed, froiven them back to Bradley once they tired of them? Had they been here all this time? Prisoners? How many more did he have?

The hallas a confusion of fur and snarling, yelps and roars She saw Ellison fall, cheetah claws raking across his fur He was up in a second, wolfover the cheetah’s neck He could break it in the next moment

"Ellison!" she shouted "Ellison, they’re cubs!"

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Ellison showed no sign of hearing, but the second cheetah, squir, but not fighting Maybe he understood Tiger was always so protective of the cubs

Maria had seen Scott crazed fro out before Ronan or Rebecca could stop hi

They’d stop at nothing to fight their perceived eneh

Bradley must be behind them, in that room Or was he? Would he have run into a room from which there was no escape?