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Usually, I loved a good fight But this? No, I was not going to enjoy this

The monkey howled and, Jesus, the sound was horrendous Then it charged at Ava It was fucking fast as it launched itself in the air But Ava’s gift of muscle memory meant she could replicate any combat move she’d ever observed, so she easily knocked the pri it down quickly rather than drag this out

Unaffected by pain and not giving a flying fuck that it was outnuht us hard Not hard enough, though We swiftly subdued it, and then Jude was there She snapped its neck in one clean move

Exhaling a shaky breath, Jude squeezed her eyes shut, pained I rubbed up against her, wanting to comfort her, and she wrapped her arms around me

“Let’s take it back to The Hollow,” said Keeley

So that e did

Since I had no clothes and didn’t fancy strolling into the Grand High Pair’s office naked, I ventured there in uar form Ryder watched me carefully, but I paid him little attention as we all crowded around the dead monkey

“It behaved exactly like the leopard,” said Imani

“There were a lot of bodies” Alora rubbed at her upper arone”

Paige’s nostrils flared “Whoever infected those ani suffer”

“They will,” Sam swore

“Any luck finding out who they are?” asked Ava

Jared shook his head “Not so far, but Ryder’s working on it”

Saaze over each of us “All your n of distrust on my part—”

“You can’t be seen to play favourites, we get it,” Cassie assured her “It’s fine”

Keeley nodded “Yeah, we totally understand”

“Good” Saine, there’ll be no training sessions for a while We’ll need people in the rainforest checking for ain to”

“Then that’s where we’ll be,” said Paige

Iat Ryder as my squad and I left the office

As alked down the hallway, Paige sidled up to my shoulder “So, Maya, I noticed you disappeared froht for a short while I also noticed that Ryder was nowhere in sight at the time”