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“Are you sure this plan of yours is going to work?” Payce asked his mate nervously.
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Amber Kell
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“Of course, darlin’, I wouldn’t bring you if I thought you could get killed. I don’t know this Dennis friend of yours and he’s not my mate so I could live with him bein’ killed.” His gold eyes flashed over to Payce. “You aren’t replaceable.” Despite his concern for his friend, Payce felt a rush of love for his overprotective mate.
“He’s the only friend I have so I’d like to keep him in one piece.” Dennis was important to him. As a shifter who always lived on the move, it was important to keep the few people he cared about safe.
“We’ll do our best, hon’,” Kevin said in his easy, relaxed manner.
Payce wasn’t fooled. The werelion’s hands were gripping the wheel so hard, his knuckles turned white.
The warehouse they stopped in front of looked like every other nondescript building on the street. Payce’s nerves were strung so tightly he was surprised they weren’t pinging.
He didn’t know who was in there but he knew this was a trap. They wouldn’t feel safe inviting two shifters if they didn’t think they had the upper hand.
The door opened as they reached it. Payce was shocked to see his foreman grinning at him from the entrance. “You fucker! I told them you were innocent.” Jim gave him a sinister smile. “That was sweet of you. Now they won’t look for me when you’re gone.”
Kevin growled beside him.
“Sorry,” Payce said to his mate.
“Don’t just stand there. Come on in and let me introduce you to some people.” Knowing this was a big mistake but unable to figure out how to get out of it, Payce followed Kevin into the warehouse. He stopped in his tracks at the sight of Dennis pacing a cage in coyote form. His eyes showed the panic he was feeling. There wasn’t much space for the animal to pace but it kept trying.
Payce’s heart broke at the despair evident in every line of his friend’s body.
A group of around two dozen people stood around the cage looking at it with varying degrees of contempt.
Payce jumped a little when the door slammed shut behind them.
“Welcome. This is a meeting of PAW, People Against Werekin. Cute name don’t you think?”
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Amber Kell
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Payce thought he wanted to rip the foreman’s throat out. It must have shown in his eyes because the man paled and took a careful step back before continuing. “Your friend Dennis here is instrumental in helping identify werekin.” Payce’s eyes went back to his friend. Dennis now crouched naked in human form in the middle of the cage, his eyes filled with guilt.
“Dennis?”
“I had to.” Payce could see the other man was close to tears but his heart was breaking for the friendship he thought they had, but was apparently a fabrication of his imagination.
“They have my sister, ” Dennis shouted.
“Shut up!” Jim snarled.
“Why do you hate us?” Payce asked.
“Because you’re nothing but filthy beasts. My mother dumped my father and me as soon as a weretiger came by and claimed she was his mate. Suddenly we were nothing.
Nothing! She just walked away. Every day for the rest of my childhood my father blamed me. If I hadn’t introduced her to my teacher, he’d still have a wife.” Jim lifted his shirt exposing a mishmash of scars covered his stomach. “This is what werekin did to me. We all have similar stories.”
The assorted crowd nodded their heads.
“That doesn’t make me responsible. It was your father that tortured you. It’s a terrible thing but he was a human and you don’t blame all humans.” Jim’s face twisted into an evil sneer. “He was the best father a boy could want until that weretiger took everything from us. It was the beast that caused the change. My father never laid a hand on me until she left.”
“So in return you’re going to torture other innocent people. How does that even make
“Are you sure this plan of yours is going to work?” Payce asked his mate nervously.
A PRIDEFUL MATE
Amber Kell
56
“Of course, darlin’, I wouldn’t bring you if I thought you could get killed. I don’t know this Dennis friend of yours and he’s not my mate so I could live with him bein’ killed.” His gold eyes flashed over to Payce. “You aren’t replaceable.” Despite his concern for his friend, Payce felt a rush of love for his overprotective mate.
“He’s the only friend I have so I’d like to keep him in one piece.” Dennis was important to him. As a shifter who always lived on the move, it was important to keep the few people he cared about safe.
“We’ll do our best, hon’,” Kevin said in his easy, relaxed manner.
Payce wasn’t fooled. The werelion’s hands were gripping the wheel so hard, his knuckles turned white.
The warehouse they stopped in front of looked like every other nondescript building on the street. Payce’s nerves were strung so tightly he was surprised they weren’t pinging.
He didn’t know who was in there but he knew this was a trap. They wouldn’t feel safe inviting two shifters if they didn’t think they had the upper hand.
The door opened as they reached it. Payce was shocked to see his foreman grinning at him from the entrance. “You fucker! I told them you were innocent.” Jim gave him a sinister smile. “That was sweet of you. Now they won’t look for me when you’re gone.”
Kevin growled beside him.
“Sorry,” Payce said to his mate.
“Don’t just stand there. Come on in and let me introduce you to some people.” Knowing this was a big mistake but unable to figure out how to get out of it, Payce followed Kevin into the warehouse. He stopped in his tracks at the sight of Dennis pacing a cage in coyote form. His eyes showed the panic he was feeling. There wasn’t much space for the animal to pace but it kept trying.
Payce’s heart broke at the despair evident in every line of his friend’s body.
A group of around two dozen people stood around the cage looking at it with varying degrees of contempt.
Payce jumped a little when the door slammed shut behind them.
“Welcome. This is a meeting of PAW, People Against Werekin. Cute name don’t you think?”
A PRIDEFUL MATE
Amber Kell
57
Payce thought he wanted to rip the foreman’s throat out. It must have shown in his eyes because the man paled and took a careful step back before continuing. “Your friend Dennis here is instrumental in helping identify werekin.” Payce’s eyes went back to his friend. Dennis now crouched naked in human form in the middle of the cage, his eyes filled with guilt.
“Dennis?”
“I had to.” Payce could see the other man was close to tears but his heart was breaking for the friendship he thought they had, but was apparently a fabrication of his imagination.
“They have my sister, ” Dennis shouted.
“Shut up!” Jim snarled.
“Why do you hate us?” Payce asked.
“Because you’re nothing but filthy beasts. My mother dumped my father and me as soon as a weretiger came by and claimed she was his mate. Suddenly we were nothing.
Nothing! She just walked away. Every day for the rest of my childhood my father blamed me. If I hadn’t introduced her to my teacher, he’d still have a wife.” Jim lifted his shirt exposing a mishmash of scars covered his stomach. “This is what werekin did to me. We all have similar stories.”
The assorted crowd nodded their heads.
“That doesn’t make me responsible. It was your father that tortured you. It’s a terrible thing but he was a human and you don’t blame all humans.” Jim’s face twisted into an evil sneer. “He was the best father a boy could want until that weretiger took everything from us. It was the beast that caused the change. My father never laid a hand on me until she left.”
“So in return you’re going to torture other innocent people. How does that even make
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