Animal Instincts by Patricia Rosemoor

Author:Patricia Rosemoor [Rosemoor, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dangerous Love Publishing
Published: 2020-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Even as Luc was about to enter the vestibule, another screeched yowl slammed into him so hard it nearly took away his breath. He recognized the voice.

“Nuala.”

“What? Your sister? Where?” Skye asked.

“Stay outside and out of trouble.”

Without waiting for Skye to agree, Luc thought himself into the gymnasium where the arena had been set up. The benches were full, and workers were running around doing final checks for the next fight. Across the floor, a man in a neon-green jumpsuit struggled to get a chained black panther into position. Nuala. Seeing red anger, Luc sifted to her side, and used every bit of that negative emotion toward the worker to mentally toss him away from his sister. The man went flying, and when he landed in the middle of the arena, his leg twisted unnaturally under him, he screamed in his human voice.

Nuala, are you all right?

Luc.

Can you shift back?

No. Too weak. Drugged.

All right, I’ve got you.

Luc lifted his sister into his arms and pressed her against his chest, arms wrapped around her to protect her. He used all the ability he had left in him to sift them back outside. But when he looked around for Skye, she wasn’t there. Still, she couldn’t have gone far.

Skye, we have to leave. Now! Meet us at the car.

But if she heard him, he couldn’t tell. All hell was breaking loose. Sirens and flashing blue strobe bars already split the night in a circle around their location as the CPD closed in from every direction. Holding Nuala close, Luc headed for the Jaguar. He had to get her out of there before the authorities stopped him with her trapped in panther form. He’d drained his limited ability to sift for the moment. No way could he transport them very far carrying her weight, not even at full charge.

As the flashing lights cut through the parking lot, two Kindred dared step before him as though they meant to prevent him from taking his sister to safety.

“Where do you think you’re going with her?” one of them asked.

“She’s tonight’s main attraction,” the other one added in a snarky voice.

“If you want to live, you’ll move, or I’ll suck those souls right out of you before I finish you.”

They looked at each other. One of them had the audacity to smirk. Luc didn’t even know how he managed considering the circumstances—his hands were hanging onto Nuala—but he whipped his head and with his thoughts slammed the smirking man into his companion. Both Kindred landed in a tangled heap.

“I’m going to put you in the back where you can rest,” he told Nuala. The seat might be narrow, but letting her stretch out seemed to be the best option.

Okay, she thought before her dark eyes fluttered closed. The baby...

There was a baby here? “What baby?”

But Nuala was already out.

What now? Nerves on fire from the effort he’d expended, Luc didn’t know what to do. Should he go back in and look for some baby? Whose baby? He hadn’t a clue.

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