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"Oh, you have that right" Froger glittering in the uns "As your beloved Caine is about to discover Salvatore is already on his trail"

Sadie snarled, her eyes suddenly gloith an eerie light as the urge to shift pulsed through her body

"I suppose this is soed asmile despite her pain "You really need to work on that sparkling personality of yours, Sadie It doesn’t seem to inspire the sort of loyalty that successful revolutions are made of" Her smile widened "Duncan has already turned traitor"

Sadie froze "Liar"

Regan began to covertly angle directly toward the dagger She couldn’t waste any more time

"Surely you can’t be surprised?" she de distance "I don’t knohat you did to him, but the cur hates you with a passion He couldn’t wait to set up ahe knows about Caine and his secret laboratories"

"As if Caine would reveal anything to a h she couldn’t disguise the tightening of her hard features "They’ll never find hiht her across the shoulder She was going to shove that thing up Sadie’s ass once this was over For the rin and bear it "And, if you’re as smart as you claim to be, then you’ll contact Salvatore and try to make your own deal If you can lead hiotiate with you rather than Duncan"

"There will be no negotiating," Sadie hissed, tre with the need to shift "If Salvatore interferes, he’ll die"

"I hope you’re not a betting woh," the cur screeched "We’re leaving Now"

"I don’t think so"

Prepared for Sadie’s atteround,on her hands and knees, she crawled the short distance, at long last led through her About freaking tiers around the hilt, she was already envisioning sliding the silver blade deep into the bitch’s heart when a lol filled the air

Da the snapping jaws of the shifted cur

Obviously Sadie had decided that if she couldn’t take Regan alive, then she’d take her dead

Or maybe she just couldn’t control that cur instinct of hers

In either case, Regan abruptly knew she was in serious danger

Rolling onto her back, Regan caught her first sight of the transfore and lean, her pelt was a rich any, with a touch of silver on her ht, sending a tingle over Regan’s skin as if her oas struggling to respond

Soh Regan before she was thrusting aside the inane sensation and concentrating ondeep in her throat, Sadie prepared to leap, and realizing that it would be fatal to be pinned to the ground, Regan lashed out with the dagger

She was too far away to do h the cur’s chest, but the burn of silver was enough to make Sadie leap backward instinctively

Swift to take advantage, Regan was on her feet, her gaze never wavering froan froer held at her side In her current fore, not only in size, but sheer, raw strength

Thankfully, any coeher inored the taunts, knowing the wo an opening

Behind her the fire continued to spread through the tea shop, the s away the sweat that gathered on her brow, Regan re She was a cur, not a Were Her emotions would be her downfall

There was another feint, but as Regan refused to flinch, Sadie laid back her ears and howled in frustration

Regan shifted her weight to the balls of her feet, her fingers tightening on the grip of the dagger Any second now Any…second…

The hoered to a growl as Sadie abruptly charged forward, her jaws parted as she leaped directly at Regan’s throat Prepared for the attack, Regan bent backwards, avoiding the snapping teeth even as she plunged her dagger deep into the cur’s chest

The blade slid in with sickening ease, but the force of Sadie’s heavy body sent Regan reeling fronored the teeth that sank into her shoulder and kept the dagger stuck deep into the cur’s flesh Already the stench of burning flesh was tainting the air It wouldn’t be long before the silver weakened Sadie

She was right