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mouth stuffed with dryer lint, he barely mustered enough saliva to spit. His drugged limbs weighed him down. Or he’d lunge at the motherfucker and tear out his throat, claw off his head. And that would definitely not endear him to the female he craved.
    “Brick, please.” Summer’s voice, beseeching him. “If anything happens to you, I’ll die.”
    “Won’t let you sacrifice yourself for me, sweetheart.”
    She shook her head. Tears meandered down her cheeks. “For me,” she whispered. “Please. For me. I won’t be able to bear it if they hurt you.”
    “You’d mate another?” His words emerged dark, vicious, bitter.
    “For your life? Yes.” She extended a hand, as if she could reach him from across the room. “Nothing I wouldn’t do.”
    “No life without you,” he muttered.
    “You’ll make one.” Pause. She looked away from him, swallowing a sob, the tears flowing more freely. “As I will.”
    Her words clawed his gut, ripping open his belly, exposing a bag of shredded giblets, the pain so sharp it diced his guts. A blood-orange haze descended over his eyes. His heart. Jesus. How could the ticker even keep beating when she’d julienned the muscle like coleslaw?
    “We’ve only known each other a day,” she tried. But the falsehood didn’t resonate, had no strength.
    “Ten fucking years,” he snapped. “Ten years of racing beneath the moon together. Of play. Of friendship. You saved my life back then. Gave me something to live for. For what? This? To kill me now? I’m dead either way.”
    “Ten years?” Cal raised an eyebrow, darting a disgruntled glance at his niece before shaking his head, as if shaking off the unwanted disclosure of their long-term bond. His focus returned to Brick, with lethal intensity. “Your choice, wolf. Summer’s made hers.”
    Rebellion filled him like boiling acid but he couldn’t submit, couldn’t surrender. He stared back at the cat alpha and shrugged. “Put me in the fucking ground then. I don’t give a shit.”
    “ No .” Summer shrieked and shifted suddenly, flying at him, perching on his shoulder. Her song filled his brain, lulling him. “Aura Lee, Aura Lee, Maid with golden hair; sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.”
    “Don’t do this, baby.” He shook his head, trying to remain alert. “My life…my heart.” The last words he managed.
    She flapped away. Zeroing in on her uncle.
    The tranq gun exploded. Once, twice.

 
     
     
Chapter Six
     
     
    She’d never been to Los Lobos. But she’d get no help from anyone in Shady Heart. Not with her Uncle Cal’s “on-off” switch stuck in the “out-like-a-light” position, as he sprawled on his office floor, frozen as the Blue Screen of Death.
    How she’d pulled that off, she couldn’t imagine. One second she’d been perched on Brick’s shoulder, crooning in his ear, trying to comfort him. The next she’d been winging toward her uncle, ready to peck out his eyeballs—and batting the tranquilizer gun away from his side in the process. As it clattered to the floor, she’d shifted in surprise, snatching it up and plugging him full of industrial strength Carfentanil. He’d kissed the parquet floor in a heartbeat. The bigger they are ….
    Nothing she would not do for her wolf. Nothing.
    “Good job, darlin’.” Astonishment painted her lover’s face. “Now what?”
    “Now we get the hell out of here.”
    “Um. Okay. Anything you say, sweetheart.” His gaze roved over her naked form, heating, and he grinned at her, brandy-colored eyes alight. “Have I told you lately, how awesome you are?”
    “I bet you say that to all the girls with tranq guns in their hands.”
    “Only the one I’m desperate to…buy condoms for.” He shot her a wink. Then looked at her uncle. “And by the way…getting out of here is a really good idea.”
    She found her scattered clothes and pulled them back on.
    Brick tried to prop himself up, but his arm fell back to his side.