Hawk's Revenge by Andrews Vivi

Author:Andrews, Vivi [Andrews, Vivi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: pride, shape-shifter, doctor, betrayal, revenge, romance, soldier, lion, scientist, military, hawk, bird, sniper
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-02-10T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The promise of snow hung in the air, blanketing the pride compound in an expectant hush. Or what would have been a hush without the constant roaring surrounding the building where the Organization prisoners were being held. The most recent evacuees had taken to taunting the prisoners in shifts, so the building walls echoed with roars and angry growls twenty-four-seven.

Even from halfway across the pride compound, it was enough to give a man a headache. Adrian could only imagine what kind of fresh hell it felt like inside those prison walls.

He silently cursed his sharp hearing, trying to focus on what Kye was saying at his side as they walked toward Mateo’s office.

“We’ll leave at dawn, day after tomorrow. Are you sure you won’t come? We’re down two without you since we can’t trust Dominec to keep his shit together, not after last time.”

Adrian vividly remembered the blood-splattered walls. The gun aimed at Rachel’s head. It was about time they benched the psycho. But if Dominec was staying at the pride, that was all the more reason for Adrian to stay behind as well. “Sorry. I need to stay here for now.”

Kye pinned him with a steady look, but said nothing. It wasn’t his style.

In the distance, the timbre of the roars shifted—the angry, threatening snarls turning fiercely triumphant. Adrian froze, lifting his ear toward the sound. “Did you hear that?”

“No. What—” Kye broke off as another, louder roar—unmistakable in its victory—echoed through the compound, followed by shrill human shrieks of terror. “Fuck. The prisoners.”

Adrian bolted toward the prisoner building, but the snow leopard quickly outpaced him. He silently cursed his inability to shift and fly to the site. He’d lose the tranq gun on his hip, but a hawk swooping on rogue shifters from above could do substantial damage even without the human weapon.

He pressed on another burst of speed, but by the time he rounded a building and the old barn that had been retrofitted into a prison came into view, all-out chaos had broken loose. The doors were wide open and the shifters were inside the building—foxes in the fucking hen house.

Kye was nowhere in sight, doubtless already inside. Adrian palmed his tranq gun and waded in. The melee inside was more of a free-for-all than any sort of coordinated strike. A knot of prisoners—the smart ones—had barricaded themselves in a stall in the back and were fighting to keep the shifters out. Those who had tried to make a run for it littered the ground—as did a few of the rioting shifters. Kye was putting them down with a fluidity and ease that was impressive, but nothing compared to the half-shifted lethality of Grace.

She tore through the rioters on two legs, but with fangs and claws flashing and a light dusting of golden fur covering her partially feline face. Her dominance was a force that seemed to hum in the air around her, causing some of the smarter shifters to tuck tail and cower rather than engaging her.

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