Loving Her (Keeping Her) by Lucille Kelly

Author:Lucille, Kelly [Lucille, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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As soon as it was dark, the wolves started climbing over the walls. In the vault control room,

everyone was huddled around the monitors but Roxanne and Essie, who had both inexplicably fallen

asleep in the spare room across the hall, without any apparent trouble.

Cassie doubted she would sleep for a week she was so keyed up. Ian was eating and Cleo was

pacing, but her and Clytie were sitting like veg heads with their eyes glued to the screen waiting for

something to happen.

“Are you sure these monitors are working right.”

“Yes, once again,” Ian sighed dramatically. “I am positive. When there is something to see

they’ll switch on.”

Almost before he started speaking lights flashed and two monitors came to life.

“It’s the sensors on the walls. They’re making their move. Not even waiting till full dark.” Ian

shook his head. “Even without Roxanne’s warning we would have had time to prepare for this

breach.”

“I count six,” Clytie said, watching the bodies move in the weird blobs of infrared. “Where are

the others?”

“That’s a good question,” Ian said, he looked at Cleo and she nodded. “Diversion.”

“But diversion from what?” She mused, flipping a switch here and there until every room in the

house was showing on the screens, in random order.

“Hey, that’s my bedroom,” Cassie said, as it flipped through. She narrowed her eyes at Clytie.

“You could have mentioned I was under surveillance.”

Her own eyes were narrowed at the screen as rooms flew by. “I would have if I had known.”

She slapped herself on the forehead. “That’s how he knows everything! Man, he is getting such a

talking to when he gets back from his wolf mayhem.”

That had Cassie rolling her own eyes. “Right, would that be before or after he drags you off to

bed and gives you the business?”

Before Clytie could retaliate, there was another sensor that went off, this one a motion detector

outside the front door. Another monitor flickered on and they could see what looked like 15 wolves

scattered across the front lawn.

“They breached the wall,” Eli said grimly. “They’ll be in the house within minutes and the

others don’t know.”

“Yes they do,” Clytie said, pointing to another screen. “That’s Logan at the side of the house.

What’s he doing?” They watched as he used his elbow to break the window he was standing by.

Immediately there was a loud wailing and the board lit up like Christmas. “The others will hear that

and come running.”

“But running into what?” Cassie asked, refusing to blink as she watched the ever-changing

screens. “That’s a lot of wolves…and they’re in the house.”

“Relax,” Ian said, even as his eyes darted back and forth, his pizza forgotten. “They can’t get in

here. There’s no need to worry.”

“It’s not me I’m worried about.”

The monitors showed different angels of the marauding horde of shapeshifters as they thrashed

the front hall and great room. Few were actually shifted to wolf. Most were just men dressed in

hunting camo or commando black.

Cassie winced for Clytie when one of her encaustic pieces was torn from the wall and thrown.

“Man, the guys are going to be pissed,” was all she said, but from the tone of her voice, she was

reaching that very state herself.

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