Chapter 388: Thursday. Mlilo Animal Reserve, South Africa.

PAXTON WRAPPED HIS arm around Coco's shoulders from behind and knelt with her in the grass. Sobs shook her. Hell, just looking at the wounds that had taken down such a magnificent creature made him want to weep. But he had a job to do. Aegis Group had volunteered to come down and help with the poaching problem and here it was for him to see.

He pressed a kiss to the silk turban still containing her curls then stood.

Before leaving home, Paxton had sat in on a seminar like everyone else on the basics of poaching and what they were up against. There were many similarities in the methods used to combat the crimes that ran parallel to Paxton's current work, both making use of his training from the Marines. He dusted off his hands and pushed the animal loving kid inside of him to the side so he could examine the scene.

He circled the body.

Several tranq darts stuck out of the animal's thick hide. He wasn't a good guess at the rhino's weight, but it had to at least weigh over two tons. T