Lisa’s POVIt was all going wrong. At least my mate had the decency to tell me he would be with her, Amy.I burst into Kane’s office without knocking.“How could you?” I cried.“Sit down, Lisa. I’ve been expecting you,” he said.“I prefer to stand.”He shrugged. “Suit yourself. This could take a while. I have calls to make.”I flopped onto the couch, wondering if I would ever feel happy again.“So, who’s in the lead after two days?” I asked.“Guess.”“What a farce!”“That’s what Amy said about the whole thing.”“Who are you phoning?”“Alpha Philip.”“What about?”“He called me.”This was getting me nowhere but I wasn’t about to let him off the hook.The conversation was boring at first, but I pricked up my ears at the mention of a new “vampire menace” in the area. Alpha Philip was old enough to be our father and used some odd expressions. Still, it was kind of him to call and could prove useful.I often thought of Mina. If I left a window open tonight, maybe she would find her way to
Amy’s POV I was still in the pack’s infirmary when they brought in a distressed Zena. She was making even less sense than usual, wittering on about “them bloodsuckers”. I turned my face away, too exhausted to deal with this right now. Kane had been to see me with some flowers. Did he know nothing about how to treat his mate? All they did was make me sneeze and I got the nurse to dump them. I really hoped he wasn’t making progress with that Luna calendar, even if it was for his eyes only as he had claimed. Though it could hardly be described as raunchy. It made me laugh to hear Lisa was confined to quarters. Serve her right. And the news was just filtering through that the Delta was missing. “I saw them take him,” Zena insisted, a short time later. She was now fit enough to be discharged, unlike me. “Do me a favour,” I urged my new personal assistant. “Comb my hair before you go.” She beamed as if the very thought of that was a pleasure to her. "You have such a sheen, Luna. I
Amy’s POVSo now we knew. What a mess. Grebe was insisting he’d gotten her with pup. I looked at him as if he was crazy, but Kane seemed to think such a thing was possible: the knowing. Had it worked with me? I wondered.The border guard said he wanted to see Zena to apologise.“I’ll consider it,” the Alpha said.“Only if she agrees.”“Of course, Luna. Nothing excuses what I did. I don’t expect we’ll ever form a relationship, but if there is offspring, I’d like regular access.”“To a hybrid or hybrids?” I asked.Maybe I was being a little harsh. But rape is rape.He shrugged. “Still mine,” he muttered.I couldn’t warm to him and yet I despised him less for that.“How could you ever have suspected Jake?” I stormed to Kane once Grebe had departed.“Given his track record, it was a fair assumption.”“You mean with Lisa, don’t you? Why is she being so difficult? Do we need to contain Blaylock some more?”“No!”His forceful reply shocked me. That was when I knew. Satyr’s influence had outl
Amy’s POVAfter Kane’s assault where he pulled out clumps of my hair, I knew I had to act. Gazing at the roots, I allowed myself the luxury of a few tears, knowing it would keep him at bay.I wasn’t asleep when the first crisis broke. I even blessed Nathan Grebe for taking that monster from my side. Zena was quite safe from him, I was certain, especially under the doctor’s care. So what if the border guard had pre-empted things. For me it demonstrated his innate decency. Or maybe it was just his guilty conscience he wanted to appease.I heard about the rogue the next day. Her scent had been all over the Alpha. If we were true mates I would be close to feral now, wanting to claw her eyes out. As it was, I thanked her for taking what I could not.Francis came to see me once Kane was in his office.“Do you ever sleep, Beta?” I asked.“A few hours here and there. I’ll come straight to the point. It’s about Noah.”“Have you found him?”“No, sorry to disappoint you. I think he was close to
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