Illicit Passions by Crystal Jordan

Author:Crystal Jordan [Jordan, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Erotica
ISBN: 9781619221840
Google: xQosAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00J97UJ6K
Barnesnoble: B00J97UJ6K
Goodreads: 21801888
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2014-05-05T18:30:00+00:00

Barbara had started with the woman identified as a fox in Nichols’s article. His notes told her exactly where the fox and her family could be found: Chattanooga, Tennessee. So here she was in this backwater little city, trying to capture a live specimen. Hastings was working to set up a lab space for them, one that was discreet and isolated. If the “clans,” as Nichols called the shifter groups, were as tight knit as he suspected, it would be difficult have a missing hybrid go unnoticed.

With Hastings busy, Barbara had to follow the fox as she came and went from town. Every day, she ended up in this parking lot. There were usually a lot of cars around, and people came and went at times that indicated they were going to and from work rather than going for a hike in the mountains.

Barbara surmised they lived here, which meant there was a significant colony of hybrids in these woods. That caused a stir of intellectual excitement within her. So many potential specimens!

She tried not to make her presence too obvious, since animals had senses that humans couldn’t match, and their studies hadn’t yet shown the extent of the sensory crossover there might be between animals and animal-human hybrids. They might have the ability to smell or hear the way any dog or cat would.

Sitting up straight, she took note of the fox interacting with two other women and children. The little girls had arrived with a fierce-looking woman with spiked blonde hair. Barbara had seen the fierce woman once before but something about her made Barbara wary. Perhaps this one was an animal that was more dangerous than the others. A fox wouldn’t be too difficult to manage, and the other woman was almost angelic-looking. She might be even easier to deal with than the fox, depending on her species. When the group piled into an ugly, beat-up old car and drove off, Barbara slowly tailed them.

The children gave her pause. Barbara hadn’t yet considered them as an option for experimentation. But then, she also had no idea if a child hybrid had the same abilities as a full-grown adult. At what age did their animal side manifest?

The group went to a coffee shop in town, laughing as if they hadn’t a care in the world, as if no one had ever taken everything from them, as if their lives had never imploded on them. Their joy made something dark squeeze and writhe within Barbara, but she ignored it. Emotions were for weaklings like Hastings. She needed to stay focused.

The women disappeared into the woods and a few minutes later a series of loud birdcalls made Barbara look up. A group of birds flew overhead. A massive bald eagle, a swan and two smaller bald eagles. But the eagles weren’t attacking the swan—they were just flying together, swooping around in dizzying circles. That wasn’t natural behavior for animals. Birds of prey didn’t cavort with swans.

These were hybrids. It was the only logical explanation.

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