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.No one should be treated that way. They told me they had been tracking the lion shifters for a while and figured the bestway to catch a shifter is to send in another shifter.Th-they injected me with a poison.Theysaid it would kill me if I didn t return in a week with everything I can tell them about the lionshifters base.To make sure I did what they said, they injected Garfield too.I-I don t care if Idie my life hasn t been much anyway but my brother doesn t deserve this.He helpedraise me.He wasn t the warm cuddly type but he s the only family I have left.He told me tor-run. Tears welled in Chester s eyes. That s why you wouldn t let Dillon bite you, isn t it? You were afraid he d getpoisoned.Chester nodded. Yeah, I couldn t take the chance. You should ve told him, Adrian said, a scowl marring the pretty shifter s face. Hethinks you ve denied his claim. No! Chester shouted. No.I just wanted to protect him.I didn t expect to find mymate, much less two of them.I couldn t infect him.www.total-e-bound.comMORE THAN PRIDE Amber Kell35Talan sighed and ran a hand through his hair. I wonder how long they ve been tryingto get to us.We ve had some problems lately with People Against Werekin.Do you thinkthey re part of that organisation? That might have put us on their hit list.Chester shrugged. They didn t find me worthy of discussing the details.They saw meas a pawn and treated me like that.It could be the same people.I did hear something about asociety, but, like I said, they didn t really talk to me until they shot me full of poison.Evin sniffed at Chester. You don t smell infected. That doesn t mean he s not, Adrian warned. If it s PAW, they used to have an entirelab at their disposal and we don t know how many more they might have that we don tknow about.They could easily have developed a poison. True, Talan agreed. Dillon might have gone straight into a trap, Evin snarled. You can debate mypossible poisoning later.Right now we need to go after him and make sure he s safe.Hecould ve been captured and we d never know it.Talan narrowed his eyes. As Dillon left about two minutes ago, I think, even if he werecaptured, they wouldn t have had the chance to do much.I value each member of my prideand I don t appreciate you behaving as if I were negligent in their care.Fear dried the moisture in Evin s throat.In either form, the alpha lion would have littletrouble killing Evin if he tried to protect Chester.To Evin s surprise, Adrian pulled a cell phone out of his pocket and dialled with thespeaker turned on.A minute later Dillon s voice came across the line. Hello, Adrian.Adrian didn t bother to return the greeting. Dillon, get back here your mate is introuble. Adrian hung up before Dillon had a chance to respond. Do you think he ll come? Chester asked. Yes, Chester.I m sure he ll come, Adrian said in a gentle voice.Evin rubbed Chester s back.How had everything fallen apart so quickly? He d come towarn of hunters and his brother s collaboration and had met his mates, only to lose one rightaway and have the possibility of losing the other one.A door banged open somewhere in the house. Adrian! Dillon s voice echoed fromdown the hall.www.total-e-bound.comMORE THAN PRIDE Amber Kell36Adrian smirked. In here.Dillon came skidding into the room.His frantic gaze swept over Chester and Evinbefore settling on Adrian. What s going on? We ll let you talk then we ll decide what to do. Adrian grabbed Talan s arm andpulled him out of the room, their pancakes abandoned.Chester leapt at Dillon.Instinctively, the lion shifter caught him. What s wrong? I thought they d captured you, Chester sobbed.Dillon turned a questioning look towards Evin, who stepped in and told himeverything Chester had shared with them. We need to go and rescue your brother, find the poison cure and find out who thesepeople really are, Dillon said.Evin nodded. As long as we stand together we can beat them. It sounded trite andsomething a Hollywood hero would say, but he stood by his statement.If things went wellhe would spend the rest of his life with these complex, beautiful men.Bad guys with drugsand guns were not going to stand in his way of the life he could imagine.He might not have planned to mate with two feline shifters, but he wasn t going to backaway from the chance, either.www.total-e-bound.comMORE THAN PRIDE Amber Kell37Chapter Three We need to corner them at their hideout, Evin insisted. I don t want them to kill Garfield. Chester gnawed on his nail in between statements.He twitched more than a cat in a room full of rockers.Evin had no doubt that, if Chester hadbeen in cat form, his tail would be flicking madly back and forth.Adrian and Talan sat on the couch across from Evin, Chester and Dillon.Othermembers of the pride sat around the room, but Evin s focus was on the alpha pair.They werethe ones who would make the final decision. I can send some of the smaller bird shifters [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]