Chapter Forty–One
DOMONIC
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I watch through the window of the cabin, my eyes trained on the fully shifted lion they have lain out on the table. I can see the doctor. His greasy black mustache and beadle eyes glinning off the panel lighting up above him. Tubes are stick out of Gryff’s hind leg pumping blood into a bag the doctor has draped over his back. A low growd sounds from about forty feet behind me on the bill. It’s Logan seruling to me that someone has eyes on Marcus
Perfect. It’s time. I let out a long howl giving the okay for the others to attack. The gal is to get the Dee Vas and Marcus out to the open and in the range of Timmons dant. These two assholes sean 1 be expecting webes, but they will be expecting hints.
Trades and Gayle tear down the front door, tempting the notice of the two panther inside the cabin. Just as expected, the good doctor. tranquiline pum while Marcos shifts into full panther form. The sight of that bastard hijacks my blood pressure up about five hundred per tear him apart piece by fucking piece and sodomize him with his very own parts for the years of abuse he inflicted on Dren
With our operation in full swing 1 leap from the boulder just behind the cabin and land with my full weight on the mel. A mile down Rain, and Quinn shit and spread out. Their job is to keep watch on the perimeter just in case lo shows up as we suspect he
Not for one minute do I believe that Marcus fully intended to change Michael into one of them. I’m sure whatever promises made to him was meant to be broken. Michael was just a play. An extra lab rat. Someone they could manipulate into an active duty deco
Doc Vas shoots down two lionesses with darts. The female go down outside the cabin and Marcus does exactly as expected. He leaps out the front door and directly in Tinslee of sight.
Perfect
Ther the shot before it hits him. Unfortunately, Marcus doesn’t go dren with the first hit. He says, falling forward on all fours until he spies me on top of the cabin and let out a howl of frustrated anpr.
I grow as Timmons second shot pieces the night air, lodging in the fallen panther domen.
I leap just as Do Vas stumbles outside, a rifle in hand that he points directly at me.
kill you before you can take him, Doc Was hisses
I snarl and the look of fear in the doctor’s yes pleases me, I know what he sees. All too large to be real. With eyes that understand every move he makes and Lings like rames that reflect the moonlight with the sweet promise of death
To not afraid of his pathetic gua. Not with Goose standing behind him, a forty five peching the base of the doctors skull.
“Drop it,” Goose commands
And just at I suspected, the good doctor smarter than the average bear, so he does
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curses, lowering his head. “I’m going to get dressed.”
He saunters up the companionway, granting me his back and leaving me to soak in his words.
Med to mated with anyone.
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as he saying that Domonic and are d
I stomp my food in Inustration. “We’re not done talking about this!” I shout up at him before whipping out my phone to send a text.
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Thanks for sending me with Koda. Ho great without a shirt. He’s also a ser you are. Oh and RTW Michael’s dead. Tumst he was
For five minutes 1 stare at my message, thinking I hated Domonie mough to get hird to answer me, but he doesn’t.
Suddenly that thought is enough to change my anger into something much harder for my hyper independent and to accept. Fear
Asense of dead fall over me at that thought
at that thought and I have the abrupt n
(pralization that Ham a jerk.
He left me here trying to keep me safe from the one man I have been running from for far too long.
What did I expect him to do?
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Mr
Please be okay Please. If you don 1 answer me soon, I’m going to stral this damn yacht and head back for you.
Domanic
When the there dots appear letting me know that he is typing, I drag it a shuddering breath.
Thank God
I’m tempted to let you steal the yacht just so that I can spank you for it.
Ton’t be a dick. What happened? Is Marqu
Domenic-
What the hell does that mean? You’ve got him?
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Domenic? Please. I have to know that you’re okay. I have to touch you. I’ll go crazy don’t.
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You shouldn’t say things like that. Not this close to the full moon
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What does the moon have to do with anything?
Doronic
You’ll see. I have to gs. Call me when you get to the safe house.
Safe house? What fucking safe house?
The shit of the ocean and the sound of the yacht engine dying shakes me from my stupor and I glance up from my phone to find Koda priming down at me fully dressed
Come on,” he says, turning around to head back up on deck,
I follow him up and the moment I step out, spotlights come to life along a small wharf to my right. The fog is thicker here, but I can still see the tops of evergr trees and all the sharp black rocks that surround the shoreline. Chappy waters slam against the cliffside of what appears to be the highest point of the und A the story structure boom in the darkness. The only house visible from the sea. The entire it can’t be more than ten feet across, it is that small.
“Lemme guest,” I mark, taking Koda’s outstretched hand. “You pups own this too.”
His laugh is answer enough as he leads onto the pier. Then dominoes, twenty lights on each side of a stone stairway go on Lighting path leading all the way in an embankment.
we take our time climbing up toward what appears to be a duplicate of Domnits place back
“How many houses are there out here? I ask my head on a swivel at se on the mainland. “And what’s with you guys and your glass wal
He smiles as we get the top of the stairs and I am greeted with the most gloriously beautiful sight I have ever seen
This house was obviously built on the highest point giving any who are up her a full the hundred sixty degree view of all that surrounds it.
We had this place built five years ago. It’s our parkhouse, But we’ve never used it. Anda says softly unlocking the front door with his palm. “It locks behind a coded entry
A panel slides open to the right of the dot to reveal a small keyboard and computer screen. Koda types in something that falls into a stream of asterisks along the
here the palm sensor next to the door begins to glow with blue light. “Place your right hand on that panel,” he tells me
1 nod, myping into the open hall as I do. The moment my hand touches the screen, a barely noticeable heat flashes across my palm and the words register accrpret flashes in red letters.
“What the hell I crap, notching my hand back.
“Now you have accesso Roda says, nodding toward the open doorway. “Go inside and make yourself at home. Domenic’s mom in the biggest one on the third Bor. I have to check the island for trespassers.”
My neck jerks up. “Dotong’s room?”
Hegnerts, “Should I direct you to mine steady”
The moment I step inside the hoide it thrums to life. The doar twings shut and locks behind me and the entire first for Hoods with soft light. The decor here is
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done in black and white with while he trick lighting thoughout the place, Modernas hell.
The wall to wall television in the Thing room flickers on and the sound of spots recast fills the air.
These gay like their Sportscenter, Jess
My phone pings in my pocket and I whip it out to find a test message from an unknumber
What the fuck?
Can’t wait to see you again.
It’s been too long.
I stare at the screen for what feel like forever before I realize Roda has retumed. It looked because the first thing he does in
hands.
After reading the message, he asks, “Who besides Demonic has
your number?”
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out of my
I shake my head, flying toward the wall and the shade switch cognize the. When oll the windows are covered, tum back to Koda, “No one does, not even Bart I shiver, “Absolutely no one ele
Then I realize, the phone number isn’t registered to me.
