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"That gives hts I need"

"Your mate?" she asked, incredulously "I believe that terer applies to you since not even tworid of me"

"It’s not like we have a choice," he practically growled, his eyes dropping to her pursed up lips and he wondered if he could kiss that froay

"Well, you chose to send me away so I think that etfor me I can be on my way," she said firh her body or the nervous way she licked her lips

"How about this," he said softly, leaning into her until histo tellto put you over my knee and spank your ass Which one will it be?"

He knew by her little gasp that he had her She was going to tell him whatever he wanted and do whatever he wanted It was the only benefit of having a weak mate, he decided, but not one that made him want to keep her around

"I-" she started only to be cut off by his father

"Chris, we have a problem The Sentinel network has crashed and they need her to fix whatever the hell her progra his attention

He stepped away frora his stoh his hair, looking pissed and nervous as hell and for daood reason

If their netas down they were good and screwed and if any of their eneood and fked

"When the patrol ca on the ground with her belongings The IT department in Boston was asked to look at them Eric said they scanned both discs several times to make sure they were safe but," Ephraim dropped his hand helplessly by his side, "theywas destroyed"

Praying the his father and Eric rong, Chris pulled his Sentinel phone out of his pocket and pressed his finger to the slass and waited for it to scan and for the small beep that would sound before the phone slid open When it didn’t happen he wiped the sain

"Fuck me," he breathed as he looked up and met his father’s eyes, just as his father reached out blindly and pulled Madison into his ar nervous glances between him and their father

"Itfurther into the room

That was an understatement if Chris ever heard one

With the Sentinel network down no one, not one single Sentinel or their employees could call for backup, share infor Under norh toand every Master on the hunt for one wo as hell If they came under attack before the netas back up they’d be helpless

"On second thought," Izzy suddenly piped in, sounding cheerful, "I believe I’ll take a ride, a bite to eat, and a ticket ho size bars"