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Ania Baby Stay hidden For me I’ll let hiet you back No self-respecting shifter would ever allow their leopard to take the brunt of torture or death He ive up his life in a heartbeat He would take any torture Lazar wanted to hand out to him, and he would sacrifice his leopard for her Dyness The two of the to them to keep Ania and Jewel safe Mitya could barely breathe knowing Ania was out there somewhere unprotected Dy Jeas just as unprotected

“She’s extreent, Mitya,” Sevastyan reiterated “She didn’t defy you, she was caught off guard and she kept it together She recognized the panel and she opened it How, I don’t know, but she did it She’s arrandparents and parents trained her for any situation, and she knoe’ll coh for us to get to her”

Mitya couldn’t do anything about it yet Lazar’s front tea toward theh the door that was down and the two holes in the side of the house As a rule, Lazar sent that first team in to mop up There were always five, and there were five now—crashing into the great roo These men weren’t aware of the fact that Lazar sent them in first because he considered them the most expendable

Mitya shot the one bursting into the rooas mask and all, but twisted and rolled on the floor for avests,” he informed the others

Calm had settled over him Coet so agitated during a firefight that he lost it Mitya was very centered, and the ned around hiood stead when directing hishis lead He took ai for the head instead of the heart As his ene to spray bullets into the shadows, Mitya squeezed the trigger once and watched hio down, this time to stay

Sevastyan took aim at the second man nearest them This reat roo fire fro took aiets; that wasn’t their purpose First, they mowed down everyone, wounded or not, and then followed up with a single bullet to the head to make certain

Sevastyan’s target hadn’t hit a single person There were no dead or dying in the great roo at his opponent’s head and squeezing the trigger The bullet went right through the gasonto the floor, the automatic quiet Timur shot a third intruder, while Drake and Joshua killed the other two

I down the hall toward the kitchen, Sevastyan in front of him, Kiriil and Josue behind hi her scent She was at the end of her heat, but due to the continual interruptions, the cycle was lingering, drawn out a fewto her mate That meant every male leopard would be able to scent her as well• • •

ANIA didn’t like that Evangeline looked so pale She was showing, the twin babies finally ; she wasn’t The illness had rendered her nearly unable to keep down food Soht rather than gained Still, she never complained, not when Ania was around her She looked tired, and Ania could see the worry on Ashe’s face

“I eline insisted “I really don’t want towith Ania” She objected to Ashe’s insistence that she lie down

“If they’re in the kitchen, I’ll get the the tray back to your bedrooet ready for bed,” Ania volunteered “Where do I find the yuelinehad to be excellent

“I left the tray for us right on the counter It’s covered, although I have to ad out, they’re like vultures” For the first tieline serator The glasses are set out by the tray”