Breeds 09 - Tanners Scheme by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance - Paranormal, Romance - Erotica, Romance - Shape Shifters
Published: 2010-05-09T22:00:00+00:00

She stared back at him in surprise.

“Yeah.” Dawn spoke up then, her voice amused, her gaze cynical. “We can all smell how bad you want

to bed the little Bengal.”

Scheme felt her face flaming.

“Dammit, Dawn,” Tanner retorted. “Drop it.”

Dawn rolled her expressive whiskey brown eyes and restrained the smile tugging at her lips. Scheme hated having something so personal, so uncontrollable being so easily detected by these fierce men and women. Strangely, she didn’t hate the arousal that was continually building. The sensitivity of her flesh, the sharp awareness of Tanner sitting so close beside her.

“We need to reschedule this meeting,” Tanner said. “Scheme needs to eat and change clothes and rest for a while. She’s not going to be able to give you what you need as clearly as she could if she had a break.”

Callan glanced at the others before sighing deeply. “Agreed. We’ll meet back here in a few hours.” He turned to Jonas. “Get me the rest of those files together, then you can sit down here and explain to me why the agents you and Tanner had in place didn’t pull her out of that damned coffin when her father buried her. I’ll expect something a bit more than I read in the reports you supplied before heading out to find Tanner.”

Tanner froze in the act of helping Scheme from her chair. She went still, the smell of her fear slamming in his face as he stared into her eyes. She knew. She had known there were Breed agents within her father’s inner circle that could have helped her, and she had refused to ask for that help. He knew her now. Knew she would have died rather than ask those men or women to betray themselves. His gaze lifted to Callan, and he saw the condemnation in his brother’s eyes. In Merinus’s. Kane’s. They thought he had known. They thought he had left an innocent woman to suffer, to possibly die in a way that they all knew was filled with horrendous fear and suffering. And Jonas. Jonas had kept those reports from him.

Tanner loosened his hold on Scheme, turning slowly to face the director of Breed affairs, a low growl building in his chest as Scheme’s soft voice whispered his name, only adding fuel to the rage building inside him.

“Tanner had no knowledge of the abuse being perpetrated within the Tallant estate against Miss Tallant, Callan,” Jonas said then. “That information was confined to myself.”

“Why?” Tanner snarled. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because I suspected she might be your mate,” he said softly. “Cabal had already made the connection and we needed the information—”

Deliberately, purposely, Tanner loosed the animal clawing inside him on the Lion Breed who had dared to allow Scheme to suffer in such a way. To allow her to be tied hand and foot with a cold electronic voice counting down her oxygen allowance within a coffin and buried beneath dirt. He plowed into Jonas. They hit the wall, plaster cracking then falling away as the force of the two heavy male bodies crashed into it.

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