Clawed, Pounced, Mauled the Complete Trilogy by Dillon Kym

Author:Dillon, Kym [Dillon, Kym]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Lovestruck Romance
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

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Marnie awoke in stages. At first there was only the knowledge that despite having slept on the ground, she was not sure that she had ever been better rested in her life. The second thing she noticed was that she was sleeping in a pair of powerful arms. She was not breathing alone. There was someone whose breathing matched hers, rising and falling with her. It was a primal comfort, and Marnie almost drifted off to sleep again.

Then she became aware of a low and distant moaning, something that tugged at the edge of her consciousness. It was a sound of great pain, and to her eternal shame, for a moment, she wanted nothing more than to run away from it. Let someone else deal with the death that came with such a sound.

She sat up suddenly, realizing that the sound was no dream. It was a drone of misery, and it came from the village.

Next to her, Jax stirred with a frown. If he had been in his tiger form, his ears would have lain straight back against his head.

"What the hell is that?" he growled.

"I don't know," Marnie said, struggling into her clothes. "We have to get back, it came from the village!"

Before she could do much beyond stagger out from the lean-to, there was a thunder of hooves, and Marcus appeared on horseback. There was a look of stress and fear on the werepanther's face, and when he saw Marnie, he let out a breath of relief.

"Marnie, get on," he growled. "You’re needed."

Marnie only hesitated a moment before scrambling onto the back of the horse behind Marcus. Jax emerged from the lean-to as well, scowling at Marcus.

"Where the hell are you taking her?" he snarled. There was anger on his face, but there was also a fear that allowed Marnie to forgive him his possessiveness.

"Back to the village, there's trouble. Get yourself together and follow. I'm not sure what we can do.”

On the frantic short ride back to the village, Marcus told her tersely that the disease they had been studying had broken out among the villagers in camp. There were already three dead, and new infections were being discovered. The toll was catastrophic on a small village, and Marnie could feel a desperate panic overtake her. She pulled it back, barely, and by the time Marcus rode into the middle of camp, she was composed, if pale.

The first person she saw was Dr. Carter, pale faced and directing the medical workers and villagers in Chaga. She looked calm, but there was a terrible fear on her face. When she saw the two of them, she nodded tightly.

"Jessica is tending people on the west side of the village, closest to the jungle. She needs your help, Marnie."

Marcus couldn't ride through the center of camp. Instead he dismounted, and after tethering his horse, escorted her through a scene of barely controlled chaos. Everywhere, it seemed, there were people weeping or rushing about, trying to do what they could to minister to the dead and the dying.

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