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growled fiercely, his anger obvious. Chloe walked a little faster to get away from the temperamental feline. Without warning, the cat behind her pushed his head against her rear end like a battering ram.
    “ Ow!” she said loudly as she stumbled. “You don’t have to shove so hard! You could just tell me, instead of acting like an insensitive jerk.”
    He growled again and swatted her ass with his huge paw. Luckily, his claws were retractable, so she wasn’t sliced open by them, but the mes sage was clear: He. Was. Pissed.
    “ Stop it!” she yelled at him. “You didn’t answer me. I could leave, right?”
    The larger panther answered in a low, growling voice, “No. The Vow is sacred. It is a tie that binds you with your mate or mates for life. It is old magic, human.”
    “So I’m stuck here if I take this Vow?” Chloe shook her head and the words were out of her mouth before she thought about it, “Then it’s not gonna happen!”
    Realizing the carelessness of her words, she grimaced then clamped her teeth together to keep herself from spouting anything else in her anger.
    The bigger panther caterwauled in anger at her response and Chloe was reminded that these were also wild animals, not simply men who changed their appearance. Their humanity seemed to be holding on by a thread and she had just pulled on this one’s string of sanity nearly to the breaking point.
    A series of questions ran through her mind. What are the panthers going to do with me? Will they keep me prisoner here? Will they kill me now that they know I won’t take their stupid Vow? Will they force me to have sex or to mate with one of them?
    Her own fight or flight response kicked in and she su ddenly panicked. She sprinted forward then cut around a tree, trying to run away from the were-cats. She barely made it ten feet before the larger panther tackled her and gripped the back of her neck in its muscular maw.
    Chloe screamed as her body crashed to the ground; the weight of the two-hundred plus pound panther slamming her temple against a hard, protruding tree root. The collision was so forceful, the world swam and wavy lines filled her vision before everything to faded to black.

Chapter 3.2
    Ronin, clad only in his birthday suit , and Kane tore through the forest the instant Chloe screamed. The men instinctively knew that something was terribly wrong; fear ran though the brothers and both knew her life depended on them.
    Both men shifted into Bigfoot morphology as they ran to find her, the animal form giving them greater strength and speed. Leaves slapped them in the face, and small tree branches bent and broke off as they hurtled through the forest.
    By the time they reached the pond, no one was there. Due to their heightened senses, both knew the were-p anthers had been there recently; however, the wind had shifted, taking Chloe’s scent as well as the panthers’ away from the brothers.
    The men searched the clearing as well as the pond, but found no trace of either of them.
    Ronin paced back and forth, angrily, “Dammit! Where would the bastards have taken her?”
    Kane shook his head, “I don’t know, brother, but we must find her before...” he trailed off, unable to complete the thought. He swayed in place as his mind was bombarded with images from Chloe.
    He had heard that the bond between mates could enable communication mentally; as far as he knew, it only happened between couples or groups who had been Vowed. He shook his head to clear the visions from his mind and ran into the forest to find their female.
    A possessive animal rage took over Ronin’s mind as he thought of the many possible ways his brother’s sentence could end. If the bastards touched his Chloe, their Chloe, he would kill every last one of them. He leaned back and screamed his fury to the sky, the enraged sound echoing through the forest.
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    The larger panther carefully turned Chloe over on her back and began to lick the wound on her temple.