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"There was no post last night," said Daniel. "We have letters delivered in the morning."The lie fell apart as quickly as it had come, but Matthew didn't even have the shred of decency required to look contrite. "All right. The message was left for me under my window, squeezed in. I didn't want to worry you unnecessarily.""Unnecessarily!" Daniel's teeth ground against each other as he fought to control his anger. What was with the state of the Heether pack? How could intruders waltz into their territory, get past the patrols, and sneak up to the second floor to leave a message for Matthew Catii who was just a guest there? Their security was atrocious, but then again, the last two days that Beth had spent re-training the pack warriors couldn't possibly be enough to turn the discipline around yet. That would take time. Still, it enraged Daniel to no end. Was this not his house? Was this not his territory? "Next time someone slips past our guards, let us know," he said, and he didn't
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"I've decided. I'll do it."Daniel had already known he would. If Matthew hadn't wanted to, he wouldn't have brought up the anonymous message in the first place. He could have burned in the fireplace or torn it up for no one to find. He had only taken an extra day to "decide" to keep up pretenses and - who knew, probably just to keep Daniel and Beth on tenterhooks for kicks.But he voiced aloud none of that. Beth was here, and she would want peace for the sake of the shaky alliance, not more infighting."You've saved me before and you're helping me again," Matthew continued, somber and composed. "So in return, after this, you have the support of my pack wherever and whenever you need them. I know my warriors are no match for yours or anyone's one-to-one, but you know I have plenty of resources to spare. What I lack in military prowess, I have business influence that will help you in whatever sphere you need resources for."Of course. The Catii pack's claim to fame was their too-keen b
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Five minutes. She had left for five minutes so she could snoop around the town and look for safe exit routes that didn't pass by any other easy ambush points or other traps that could have been set in advance. There was no telling who was ally or enemy, after all, and she still doubted the sender of Matthew's anonymous letter. And after watching the outside of the pub for almost an entire hour and neither seeing nor hearing any suspicious activity from inside, she had told herself that five minutes away to do some actual belated reconnaissance would do no harm. After all, there were five Silver Nation werewolves guarding him, three of them Heether pack members and the other two from a sister pack, so what were the chances that all hell would break loose if she slipped away for a few minutes?Apparently, very high. She should have known to expect the worst no matter what she did, no matter how clever and strategic she thought she was being. Or maybe it wasn't her bad luck that she sh
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The strength that had returned to Matt's body upon seeing Beth's face vaporized as soon as he lost sight of her through the billowing smoke that rolled across the street ahead and into the alleyway. Gone. Again. Every time she slipped back into his life, she slipped away just as quickly. Even the time he had spent at the Heether pack house in the same damn building with only a few walls between them at most, she was always out of reach.But he knew why. This wasn't eighteen-year-old Beth who would discover she was his mate and fall in love with him. This was the Beth from nearly ten years in the future who remembered everything Matt had done to her, the same Beth he had betrayed so many times and never paid for it, except in grieving his loss when he finally realized what he had done. She hated him. Or rather - she hated who she thought he would become.She didn't know he was the same Matthew Catii who had hurt her time and again until she breathed her last. That was his saving gra
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"So why are they after you?""I don't rightly know.""Really? You have no idea?"The man shook his head, and Matt knew in an instant he was lying. Or at the very least, he had to have some suspicion. People didn't put up a dogged chase through smoke to mug a complete stranger. Had this man ducked into the chaos to try to get away from them, hoping to lose his pursuers in the mob? Not a stupid move, but unsafe considering he had been panting and heaving and taking in so much of the smoke. Matt could still feel the effects of inhaling it even now, even after his healing had kicked in to recover his lungs. Whatever those thugs were chasing after him with such single-minded devotion for, the man had to have an inkling about. A bit too old to be messing around with sisters and daughters. Maybe gambling debts?"Really," the man said at his long, skeptical stare. "I don't know. But I didn't want to stick around to find out. They were meaning to kill me no matter what I said or did.""Kill
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Daniel was right to think something would happen, in the end. Beth had mastered stalking her quarry in the past life, but in the almost three seasons she had spent in this new one, she had become utterly out of practice. Perilously so. And she realized it only when the man stiffened, turned his head, and sniffed the air over his shoulder. She tried to slink back behind the closest corner only to find that they were both in the middle of a narrow brick alleyway, and there was no escaping detection.The smog that muddied the air was thinner than two and a half streets over where the flames had grown to a raging conflagration, and there was no hiding within it. Beth and the man locked gazes as he turned, and adrenaline thickened in her veins, warning her: fight.The man was trained. Highly trained. The span of time between the instant he saw her and the instant he leaped to attack was less than a second. He didn't just know how to fight; he lived like this, constantly struggling, consta
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There was no way they were going to bring this stranger with them. Beth was slower to judgment than anyone else here, which was ironic considering she had already seen what the future could bring, but even she was against the idea of Matthew keeping some old unknown merchant in tow as they fled the vicinity for safer waters. And given Matthew's track record of trusting the wrong people - she hoped in the other life, he and Annalise had torn each other new ones, and plenty of them at that - she wasn't fond of falling into step and going along with his idea that his new friend could be of use to them.Boris was a weathered thing, but it might have been only recent times that had treated him poorly. He had the slightly saggy look of someone who had lost too much weight too fast, but he had the sophisticated manners of someone of the upper economic class, and he still had the jewelry here and there that quietly advertised the wealth he possessed. Well, not at the moment. He had admitted
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It had been an exhausting journey made at double-time, and the strain showed on everyone except Daniel. His stamina was unbelievable - impossible, even. Beth had long trained for strenuous work in the other life and had even become good at it despite her utter lack of training in childhood, but she as well as everyone else were on their last leg. Daniel, however, stayed up to guard the captive no matter how anyone protested, and he ordered the other Heether pack members to get some rest. The sister pack werewolves who had accompanied them to and from the botched mission were sent home outright with orders to disclose nothing. And Beth - Beth slept. She slept so hard she didn't even dream, and she woke up with a startled jerk when she realized it was no longer dark in her small room at the end of the large cabin. She must have napped for at least two hours, maybe more. She scrambled out of bed, heart pounding, and sprinted down the hallway, out the door, and toward the cellar doors
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