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Chapter 9

Lev sniffed The fresh rowled A olf hunting Rachel, likely already had her Not just one His hackles rose He picked up the scent of five weres A foreign pack Who the hell were they? And why had they sent so ood as he suspected, they would rightly suspect Team Greyould search for her The other three roup of lycans Had they landed by helicopter? He hadn’t caught their stench until now They must have been dropped off in the e had become chaotic mess due to a yak stampede A lycan must have scared the beasts of burden to break away from their enclosure and run amok A distraction to nab Rachel

He honed in on her scent Behind the hoher His kind could scale Mt Everest if need be, and kill Rachel in the progress If they caught his scent, they would her

Lev stripped and took the fore, Himalayan brown bear to cover his lycan scent He tracked them miles away from civilization or any hiker encaerous storht He must rescue Rachel before she froze to death

Despite his cuility of a oat Lev heard voices and slowed They had set up camp inside a cavern, far from other humans Rachel was inside How the hell had they learned her travel plans? Even he had not caught wind of it until she was days ahead of him

Lev stood on his hind legs, cocked his head and listened to Rachel’s pulse Unconscious His blood boiled Why? He inhaled No blood or scent of other injuries She must have passed out from the elevation

He went on all fours and circled the cavern where they held her, plotting his next move

Rachel woke, not sure how long she’d been out and scowled at theat her She sat up “What do you ith me?” Funny, he looked like the Lev-type Tall, broad and feral eyes It felt like he had threatened her with a claw Probably an exotic blade designed like a claw Must have been a hallucination brought on by less oxygen frolanced around They were in a cave She sat on a thickOne of the men heated hot water on a small camp stove A bin labeled freeze-dried food lay beside it A ca shadows against the cold walls Three other thick blankets covered her She shivered Odd Only one sleeping bag for all thesehat must be extra clothes lay beside her They had obviously not planned an extended stay to tour the Himalayas

Her abductor narrowed his eyes and she felt co gaze coone through all this costly trouble to bring you back to your new home?”

Rachel had been an excellent field doctor and epideh to follow halfway around the world “Enlighten me, please” Whoever these men were, they had no qualie, she had tolerated Jim’s conspiracy rants about filthy rich secret societies that controlled the world For once, there ain, of all the people in the world, ould a mysterious cabal want her?

“Your father had orders to never tell you the truth, but we thought perhaps he broke protocol and did”

Just as she suspected, this had so to do with Howard “Not likely You see ical father, nothing more” It had taken a bout with Ebola to force her father to come out of the ork and see her Whoever these people were must be the reason Howard had stayed away She bundled the blankets tighter around her Had she , he had protected her What kind of people had he messed with? Too bad Jim wasn’t here to list the possible conspiracy plots Howard and these men were part of

“I see Dr Becker is ined”

Okay, this conversation got stranger and stranger “Am I to be ransomed to a father I don’t know for money or inforer to send to her father as proof they held her or execute her for soainst these men?

He laughed “You, little human, are the prize”