Hyena Moon by Jeanette Battista

Author:Jeanette Battista [Battista, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: Jeanette Battista
Published: 2012-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Kess walked beside Rafe. "We'll talk in my office," was all she said. She closed the door behind them.

Rafe stopped in front of the large desk, hands in the pockets of his jeans, head down. His hair hung down so she couldn't read the expression on his face. Instead of going around behind the desk, she leaned a hip against the back of the leather loveseat. She didn't want to put him on the defensive by making it seem like an audience. That desk had its own air of authority about it, which was part of why she didn't like it. She'd need to look into getting some new furniture soon.

Her first impulse was to let Rafe off with a warning and cut him loose. He'd been wrong to take off by himself, just him and Lenore, but he'd done the right thing by calling her when trouble was likely. He’d protected himself and Lenore, and got out of a dangerous situation safely.

She went against that impulse and looked at the situation like a clan leader should. If she was going to be head of Miami she had to review all of the possibilities. And one of those was that this was another setup, designed to make her feel just that way towards Rafe. To allow him to get in closer, to find out more information. When she viewed the outing from that angle, the werehyena came out looking much more suspicious.

"So tell me what happened." Kess kept her voice even.

Rafe startled and turned around to face her. "I told you on the phone."

"I want to hear all of it. From the beginning. Go."

Rafe dug the toe of his sneaker into the rug, tracing patterns. "Lenore suggested we go to the museum this morning. I figured she'd already okayed it with Cormac."

"And you didn't think to check with me?" Again, Kess kept her voice neutral, trying to get to the reasoning behind his decision to go.

"You said I was free to come and go as I pleased." His voice was defensive.

Damn. She had said that. She'd given him too much freedom at the outset and now she couldn't exactly complain when he took it. She frowned. "Continue."

"We were walking around and everything was fine. Better than fine." A slight smile crossed his face, disappearing when he looked down at the rug. "Then I smelled my sister and I saw two of her friends hanging around the village. I ran and got Lenore..."

"Wait, so you had gone off by yourself?" Kess couldn't keep the suspicion from her voice.

Rafe's head whipped up from his focus on the carpet. "Yes." Now his voice was hostile.

Kess brought her emotions back under control and tried to temper her voice to a more even tone. No need to alienate him. He hadn't actually done anything wrong and had done several things right. "Then what?"

His voice was tight. "I grabbed Lenore and got us out of there. That's when I called you."

Kess began to pace. At face value, it sounded plausible.

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