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there s a price on your head. You can t expect others to suffer as a consequence. You re going to have
to balls up.
Emory tore his gaze from Ava and glared at the table. He was breathing hard, chest heaving. Nathan
placed a firm hand on his arm and Diskant knew the Beta was filtering some of his anger by taking it
into himself. After several seconds, the gleam in Emory s eyes lessened. Nathan let him go and
sagged into the leather-cushioned seat, panting as his clenched fists resting atop the table tightened
and loosed spastically.
After I left I decided to go to Colorado, Emory said quietly, voice shaky. It was a nice change of
scenery and a decent place to go it alone. I was there a couple of months before I met the most
amazing female. She was smart, she was beautiful, and as you ve probably guessed, she was mine. I
couldn t believe the dumb fucking luck of it all. I left home and found my one true calling. Then I
found out her name. Emory looked up and stared Diskant in the eye. Mary Shepherd.
Everyone at the table went quiet and eerily still and it was immediately mirrored by the pack
members in the bar. Diskant turned from Emory, narrowing his eyes and gazing about the room.
They d all heard what Emory said but by adding to the tension they were making shit much, much
worse.
This was not good news.
After a moment the noise level increased and the pack returned to business as usual, although in a
much more muted fashion. Diskant returned his attention the table, noting the strain on everyone s
faces.
You re mated to a Shepherd? Trey sounded as sick as Diskant felt.
Emory s nod was jerky, his voice gruff. I tried to stay away from her. She s too young and both the
man and the wolf recognized that, but it was too difficult to deny the pull. After a couple of weeks I
started visiting her college, watching her from a distance. When I finally approached her I realized
she had no fucking clue what I was. I found out why when we sat down for a cup of coffee and I
learned her parents had died when she was fifteen and she d moved to live with her aunt and uncle in
Colorado.
Separatists? Diskant asked, curious and intrigued.
From what she shared with me, I would imagine so. I couldn t exactly ask her about it since she isn t
aware any of our kind exist.
How did they find out about you? Trey was still shell-shocked; it showed in his expression and his
somber tone.
Since I couldn t exactly knock on her door and introduce myself, I made sure that we always met
somewhere in the city. Her uncle got suspicious after we exchanged phone calls and decided to
follow her. He was waiting to meet us after we shared a meal and were about to hit the movies, and
he had a fucking troop of his kin with him.
Emory hesitated, swallowing loudly.
I tried not to shift but when he lunged for Mary it was impossible to control all the changes. They
were endangering my mate and the wolf surfaced. His voice became a heavy snarl. I couldn t stop
them from taking her, not when they told her what I was and she ran as fast as she possibly could in
the opposite direction. It was hard enough staying alive when they were firing silver buckshot at my
ass.
Did you mark her? Diskant knew he was asking a difficult question. All things considered, he
highly doubted Emory had taken it that far. If he had, there was no way he would have allowed Mary
to flee.
No, Emory answered, confirming Diskant s suspicion. There was never any chance to. The night
we were discovered was the first night we were alone. He lowered his head into his hands. I
shouldn t have come here. Hell, I didn t for several weeks. You have no idea how hard it s been, to
know my mate exists but not be able to claim her. That s why I came back. If I don t do something
soon, I ll return for her even if it kills me.
Trey slammed his fist on the table, growling. How long ago did this happen?
Five weeks. Emory lifted his head. The anguish in his voice was mirrored in his posture.
Every dead shifter inside that warehouse was a different breed, and not one of them was a wolf.
Trey lifted his head and looked directly at Diskant, conveying the significance of the fact. When the
leaders of the shifter races learn that Shepherds are in town for Emory they ll demand we hand him
over. No one will risk going to war with them. Not if it endangers their families and mates.
Diskant cursed the circumstances, processing the information as quickly as possible. As an Omega, he
had the final say on what went down in his city. Sometimes that held sway when it came to the wolves
in the area. He had, after all, been born a wolf shifter and maintained very close ties to them. But by
killing off different shifter breeds of a predatory nature no less the Shepherds effectively made
this a matter he couldn t take sides on. When those missing pack and pride mates demanded
recompense he would be expected to provide it. Emory, a werewolf born into his original pack,
wouldn t qualify for any special consideration. Their connection alone would cause all the other
shifters to be wary and distrusting.
Diskant looked at Ava, torn for the first time in his life.
If he weren t newly mated, the decision would be as simple as breathing. Despite his status, he would
arrange something that would save his brethren and force the threat from the city. Shepherds took the
supernatural creatures they captured to special holding places where they could be exorcised of the
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