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Katya wasn’t much older than Anya; she was barely thirty Her clear, unlined expression was tight orry though, as her too perceptive topaz eyes went over Anya’s face

“Anya, I agree with your papa, you are not well,” she said haltingly, a frownher brow

“I’ll be fine soon,” Anya pro Asyluranted to you and your uncle but under very strict rules You’ll have little freedom”

Alexi shook his head His brown hair was longer than it had been in the lab facilities, his green eyes worried “We have no freedom now, Anya We run in fear of our lives The Coyote Breeds were our lives, not just our research To ith theed philosophically “From what your papa says, ill have more freedoms than we did with the Council, yes?”

“Well, you won’t die for stepping outside for that cigar you like so ht have company”

Alexi’s eyes crinkled in humor With his and Katya’s arrival in the facilities and their eventual control of it, conditions had changed drastically They hadthe rescue much easier

“Sit, Anya,” her father encouraged her “Your cousins, they are waiting for your Alpha Gunnar Why are you ill, child? You are never ill”

“The inoculations we gave her as a child should have made her immune to nearly every virus known to hu her carefully

“I was inoculated?” Anya blinked back at her “With what?”

“We all were,” Katya confir to the labs We finished them there The Breeds are immune to all viruses known We used that inoculation on ourselves as well as you, your faer involved We’d been lab testing on certain anirow ill Even your papa has not known illness You should be well”

Anya shook her head She would get to that later She turned to Ashley “Has Emma made that call?” God, she needed Del-Rey

“We dropped her off before coently

She rehtly and focused on her father and her friends again “You’ll be taken out under armed escort”

“You will go with us,” Katya said with an edge of fear “Won’t you?”

Anya shook her head and turned to her father “You and the cousins must leave now, Papa, before Del-Rey arrives”