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visible signs. Nothing indicates a pregnancy."
    "That's the kicker. I was one of the experiments bred for physical superiority and one of the things that makes me so lethal is the ability to not only scent things other shifters can't, but to mask them as well. As soon as I realized I was pregnant, I left home and started moving around place to place. There are several like me who should be able to tell. I think I got away before they did, but I can't be one hundred percent certain.
    "You told no one?"
    "I admitted the truth to Bhric as a condition to stay here. But that's it. I should have been safe."
    Niki took a breath. "Except for that strange cat girl with the scars on her face. There's something really off about her. She showed up here one day and somehow she sensed it. Freaked me the fuck out. One minute she's here and then hours later I'm taken."
    "You think Kitty is behind the kidnapping? From what Bhric said, she's the one who warned him what happened to you. I don't think we'd have found you otherwise. Rumor is Kitty got seriously screwed by past. Women from her own clan gave her those scars."
    She shrugged. "If not her and not Bhric, that only leaves my family."
    Dean frowned. He did not look happy.
    "I told you it was a mess, and complicated. That's why I wanted to wait until morning." She yawned. She didn't want to admit it but this pregnancy thing had really affected her energy levels. Where she'd functioned perfectly on five hours of sleep previously, she now needed a heck of a lot more. Not to mention the bed in this room was incredibly comfortable.
    She may never admit it to Dean, but having him next to her made her feel safer than she'd been in a while. The constant worry and avoidance she'd experienced these last few weeks had drained her. Next to him, she could almost forget someone had kidnapped her less than forty-eight hours ago.
    "Tired, babe?"
    She nodded.
    "Roll to your other side and let me take care of you. We can talk more in the morning."
    Too tired to argue, she did as he asked and rolled away from him. The minute she got comfortable his hands touched her with long, light strokes up and down her back. She hummed with pleasure at the exquisite sensations flowing over her.
    "I don't know too much about pregnant were's other than what I remember from my mother," he said. "She was a midwife and on the rare occasion a female got pregnant, she'd tell my brother and me a little about her work. I remember her saying how hard were pregnancies are. Her patients suffered a lot from fatigue."
    "It's not that bad." Her tired brain tried to stay tuned into the conversation but his hands roaming across her skin distracted her. Reminded her of the pleasure she'd experienced from him all those weeks ago. A sweet ache bloomed between her thighs. Maybe he wasn't good for her in the long run, but he was damned perfect in the right now. But her eyelids were so heavy. Whatever was meant to happen between them would have to wait just a little while. Until she woke up...
     
     
    Niki paced the length of her room over and over, back and forth. Too much was happening around her that she didn't understand. That cat chick showing up out of nowhere blew her mind. She had no right interfering in her private business. How did she know about the pregnancy anyway? Did the owner of Dark Moon, Bhric tell someone? He didn't strike her as someone who would go back on his word. Not that people didn't break their word all the time.
    She looked around the sparse room and wondered what to do next. Hiding out in a roadhouse at the edge of the neutral zone seemed like a good idea but in reality it was just another avoidance technique. And now maybe a dangerous one, if word spread about her condition. The best thing for her is to get the hell out of this room as soon as possible. Niki stuffed her cell phone in her back pocket and her room key in the front. She glanced one last time for something important she needed to take with her and