Cougar Bait (Cougarville) by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-06-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“He was here, all right. I can smell his stench.” Keller felt a growl rising in his throat as he stalked around Samantha’s bedroom. He had arrived to find her house empty, but all of her valuables intact. Her purse with her cell phone and wallet was still sitting on her kitchen table. Clearly she had been taken by someone who only wanted her and didn’t care about robbing the house.

“Do you think it could be the Shifter your driver saw sniffing around her in Vegas?” Mathis asked.

Keller frowned. “It could be. Unfortunately, even if it is, Jakes didn’t get a name or any information about him. But I know for a fact that this is the scent of the one who attacked her in her hotel room.”

“Son of a bitch,” Mathis growled. He was standing by the foot of the bed with one long arm wrapped protectively around Sadie, who looked pale with fear. She had one hand on her lower belly, which was already beginning to swell with the baby inside.

Before Keller could say anything else, Fiona ShadowTree, Cougarville’s resident pharmacist-slash-wise-woman, came sweeping into the bedroom from the adjoining bathroom.

“Ah, my dears—I fear this is bad,” she murmured.

Today Fiona was dressed in a flowing peacock-blue caftan with chunky gold-and-crystal jewelry, and her auburn hair, shot through with veins of purest silver, was swept into an elegant updo at the top of her head. The whole effect was one of a Gypsy queen in exile.

It had been a surprise to Keller to see her getting out of the rental car with Mathis and Sadie. However, Mathis had taken him aside and explained in an undertone that the wise woman had appeared at their front door while they were leaving for the airport and demanded to come along.

Keller didn’t know why she’d wanted to be here, but he didn’t blame Mathis for bringing her. When Fiona turned the force of her large, dark eyes on someone, they somehow almost always found themselves doing what she wanted.

“I believe the one who took Samantha must be the same male who attacked her earlier. This Hyena has been stalking Samantha—I can feel traces of his energy. They are . . . most troubling,” she said.

“Fiona’s right,” Keller said. “He was in human form here, but there’s no mistaking his scent.”

“But what will he do with her? How did he find her? Where did he take her?” Sadie burst out, questions pouring out like anguished prayers. “Poor Sammie! What are we going to do?”

“We’re going to find her,” Keller said with more certainty than he felt. “She’s still alive—I can feel it, can’t you?”

“I guess so.” Her big brown eyes brimmed with tears. “But she’s in terrible danger. I can feel that too—and the feeling just keeps getting worse, getting stronger.”

Keller had to agree with her. The feeling that Samantha was in peril was growing all the time, like a ticking time bomb at the back of his mind.

“I can answer one of your questions at least,” he told Sadie.

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