Amy’s POV “What do you want, Blaylock? Tell us,” I dared, not altogether surprised to find I was shaking. “You can’t begin to imagine.” The tinny voice didn’t lessen the impact of his words much. “World domination?” I rolled my eyes. Francis had been watching too much TV. “Lycans only,” came the cryptic reply. “He wants to rid the universe of everyone save his kind.” Jarvis, at least, had a grasp of the situation. “Execute him,” I said, not bothering to conceal my contempt. “How?” Worryingly, the query came from our resident scientist. “Destroy the clone,” Beta Francis suggested. Both Jarvis and I protested. I couldn’t have said why, given my earlier sentiments. But I had a ready excuse. “Blaylock will only find another host,” I said. “Maybe my spirit guide can help.” Expecting to have to explain how it worked with Anastasia, it seemed Francis recalled her unannounced visit. “Blind Stacey.” I was close to reprimanding him for his familiarity when he added, “I liked her.
Amy’s POVLisa had broken Kane’s ‘curfew’, though that was the least of my worries. Velma had turned up out of the blue with her partner, Ray. It seemed they were on the run from a very pissed off father: Zena’s.“You sent her to the dogs!” was the least unpleasant thing he’d had to say on the subject.I looked at Mom’s huge curls and clumpy mascara with distaste.What did she expect me to do about it with the weight of pack opinion, not to mention the Werewolf Elders, on my case?Ray was decent enough, a balding man with a comb-over and a crushing handshake.“One night only,” I said, knowing I was likely to weaken in the morning. “I’ll have a couple camp beds set up in one of the meeting rooms. Don’t worry, we have surveillance.”“What are you tryin’ to say?” Velma asked.“For your own protection.”“We’re not thieves, you know, Ray and me.”I found the business card lying on the floor of the reception room once Jake had done the decent thing and taken them out of my sight.“DoDo Bake
Kane’s POVI couldn’t believe Luna Amy would do this to me. Females were notoriously treacherous, but her? Wait, where did that thought come from? CC was long gone, his punishment room mostly redundant.Blaylock was close by. Did my mate want him to take control of me once more? One thing she apparently didn’t want was me to lose fitness by lying about all day. Darius was a gruelling personal trainer. He didn’t seem to grasp what I meant when I asked if he was now my physiotherapist.I let that one lie unexplained. After all, I didn’t have to answer to him. Or anyone.Lisa came to see me, just once. I think she really wanted to know where the Lycan wolf was. The last I heard he was inside my clone. Imagine that.Jarvis kept mentioning some sort of serum but nothing was ever pumped into me while I was awake. I seemed to recall him saying it would enhance the Lycan in me. Whose side was he on?His own, of course. I knew he still wanted Amy. You only had to watch him with the clone. Now
Kane’s POV “Is this what you want, Luna?” I asked, pointing to her and then myself. “The Alpha on the wrong side of his desk.” “No, Kane,” she replied, rising so quickly she bumped her knee. I was always doing that. “You took me by surprise.” “Chance would be a fine thing,” I grumbled. “It’s good to have you back.” “Really? Why?” “Don’t spoil it with cynicism. I like your sense of humour It reminds me of – ” “New York? I never did get round to thanking Elvis,” I said. “If he had solved our puzzle earlier I wouldn’t have come to know you better.” “Still a smooth talker, I see.” “A few days doesn’t change a man.” “Sometimes it does.” She always had to have the last word. It was kinda infuriating yet I quite liked it all the same. “If you say so, Luna.” “Call me Amy, Kane. And it wasn’t any old puzzle and certainly not solved by a banker named after a rock ’n roll singer that everyone seems to want to impersonate.” “I thought he worked in a museum.” “I’m not going to argue
Amy’s POV Retribution beckoned in the form of either a rogue or a member of the living dead. I hoped Kane wouldn’t give up on me when he was back to full health. I didn’t even want to think about how long my half-brother had left. Maybe Mina would come for the leftovers, if it wasn’t too late by then. Would Lisa even shed a tear? It was doubtful. Was she missing Noah? I really didn’t want him dragging into this mess of my making. Seems I returned just in time to save you from yourself. Agatha? I knew you’d let me down. Just not like this. What happened to strong Amy, ready to take on the shifter world? Michael Satyr. Ah. An unknown factor. His wolf refuses to leave, I hear. You can say that again. Pretend to go along with it and then, when I give you the nod, disappear. Just like that? I can’t even see you. Don’t be difficult, Amy Jordan. Truman, I corrected. Are you sure about that? There wasn’t a wedding band on my finger, though I’d worn his collar. More than one. I d
Amy’s POVIt was cold in the underground bunker. Being surrounded by root vegetables didn’t help my mood any. But there was farmland above us, and Noah and I had to eat.Apart from being weaker than normal and very pale, he was able to complain about the lack of meat.“What I wouldn’t give for a jack rabbit or two.”“Mom had a recipe for jugged hare. Delicious.”“Don’t, Luna.”“Sorry,” I said.We were sharing the same cell, but only until nightfall.“How’s Lisa?”“Strange,” I told him.The Delta gave the ghost of a grin. “A lie would have been preferable.”“It’s not entirely her fault.”I went on to say that I believed she was being controlled by another.“Who, exactly?”“You’re going to have to trust me on this one,” I said, just as Mina appeared, looking anxious.“The prince is awake,” she announced. “It’s highly unusual. He must sense your presence.”A white-haired woman appeared behind her and Noah shrank back.“Leander always oversleeps,” the newcomer said, with scorn. She peered
Kane’s POVObliterating Blaylock was my number one priority. Yet my sister kept getting in the way. If I didn’t know better I would have suspected she was doing it on purpose. And after I’d let her off with a caution following her unscheduled visit to Zena. I didn’t have the heart to reprimand her properly, given what she was going through.I informed Ms Harvey in no uncertain terms that I wasn’t going to spend another second in her lab as a guinea pig and that she was lucky I didn’t throw her ass in my dungeon.Francis backed me up, for which I was eternally grateful. Cornelius opened and closed his thin lips a few times but nothing of substance emerged. At this stage I wouldn’t have been surprised to see ectoplasm.It had been that kind of a year.I asked to see my clone then changed my mind.“Have it brought to my office.”The lookalike could be dismantled there. It was as good a place as any, and I assumed Darius would be handy with a hammer.Lisa turned up unexpectedly. Actually,
Amy’s POVThe prince took the fur coat from my shoulders in a sensuous move which I suspected he had performed many times before.“Lie down and stretch out your arm,” he ordered.Unlike the Alpha, there was no aura, yet I hurried to obey. Fear had diminished, leaving a heady anticipation.Had he softened me up merely by placing his cold lips on mine?The man who entered looked ghastly. Saliva dripped from fangs he was unable to properly conceal when he saw me. I jammed my legs together, wondering wildly if I’d forgotten to shave them.That wasn’t the part he was interested in, but he obeyed the vampire prince and kept his bloodless white hands to himself as he attached an odd-looking contraption to my bare upper limb.A vampire with a bald head chose that moment to glide through the door.“Mina said you woke early again. Oh, is this the new lady?”“Allow me to introduce Arnold, my second-in-line. This is Amy, a healthy she-wolf. I doubt she will be joining our group.”“Can I watch you