The Tigers Shared Mate by Bonnie Burrows

Author:Bonnie Burrows [Burrows, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Carter was making his way to the house when he saw Lydia and a man in the dark. He could barely make out her outline, but what he saw bothered him. Her posture was rigid, her body language silently screaming her distress. Carter quickened his pace, but he was too far away to call out to her. He heard the man laugh and his heart sank.

Adam!

Carter was running now, but Lydia had already stormed past Adam, kicking him as she went so that his laughter stopped abruptly. Adam watched her go, unaware that Carter was almost upon him.

Carter closed the distance moments before Adam turned, his right fist landing solidly on Adam’s cheek and taking him down before he was even aware that Carter was there.

Carter yanked him up by the front of his shirt and punched him again, holding him up off the ground and leaning down into the man’s face. Adam returned his glare, utterly unapologetic.

“What did you do?” Carter hissed.

“Ah, Carter, so nice to see you,” Adam spat out.

“What did you say to her?”

“I’m sure you know. I can’t believe you would keep something like that from her.”

His voice was heavy with mock concern, and Carter saw red. He considered ending his life right then and there, but he couldn’t. If Gavin knew where Adam was tonight and he suddenly disappeared, it wouldn’t take long for Gavin to put two and two together. It looked like they were in a big enough mess to begin with.

“We didn’t tell her because it wasn’t the time.”

“When was the time, Carter? Or were you hoping that she’d fall in love with you fools in time to fulfill the decree on her own?”

“It’s not up to you to decide what’s right for our family.”

“Your family?” Adam snorted. “Please. She’s at most a plaything for the two of you. Everyone knows that your marriage, your entire story is a farce and nothing more. Gavin isn’t a fool, he’s just waiting for you two to bury yourselves. Then, he can get rid of all three of you in one swoop.”

“Gavin doesn’t have the balls to take us out.”

“Maybe he doesn’t, but once the humans find out what happened with Lydia, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a human that doesn’t want to kill you on sight. Causing the death of one of their own won’t help your cause. It’s only a matter of time before one of the anti-shifters takes you both out.”

“Won’t happen. Because we’re not going to let Gavin get his hands on Lydia.”

“You can’t stop him,” Adam spat in Carter’s face. “Do you think that going through with any of this will deter Gavin? He might not dispatch with Lydia now. Maybe not even this year. But someday, when you least expect it, she’ll get what she should have gotten the day you found her. She witnessed something she shouldn’t have and Gavin isn’t going to let her live. Then you’ll be right back where you started, two desperate playboys playing house together in a gaudy mansion in the middle of nowhere.

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