The B*E*A*S*T* Within by Rebecca Goings

Author:Rebecca Goings [Goings, Rebecca]
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Published: 2010-02-13T07:16:46+00:00

Epilogue

The grainy photographs were spread out on the mahogany conference table. The fifteen plush chairs gathered around the table were each occupied, and all eyes were on the pacing form of Clive Covington. Back and forth he walked the length of the table, rubbing his face, visibly irritated. Three men were pictured in the photographs—two of them holding B*E*A*S*T* issued machine guns.

"I want to know their names," Clive said, finally coming to rest at the head of the table and leaning over it on both hands. "Who the hell has the balls to infiltrate my facility?"

"We know for sure the first one is Noah Carpenter," Dr. Lucian Carver said. "The man who went missing not too long ago. The second man is Wade McAllister, the man we drugged to keep his old memories suppressed. The third man we'll have to work on identifying." He pointed at the picture of the mystery man.

"I know who it is," offered another man sitting on the other side of the table. His arm was in a sling and various cuts and bruises were clearly evident on his face, and his expression was set in stone.

"Do enlighten us," Clive demanded, turning his fiery eyes on one of the only two shifters allowed in the room. Sean Ross cleared his throat. "His name is Rogan. Rogan Wolfe."

Dr. Carver sat up straight. "The same man we pitted against you months ago?"

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Sean growled low in his throat as he turned his gaze upon the scientist with a sneer. "The very same." Dr. Carver looked flustered.

"And he can become a...?" Clive let the sentence hang, again glancing around the table.

"A wolf," Sean replied. "I suppose your scientist goons have a sense of humor after all."

Clive sighed and took a seat, lifting the photos to his eyes for the hundredth time. "I want them found. I want all the shifters found. If word leaks out that these men have gotten loose, not to mention what they can become, then we're in deep shit."

"If you don't mind me saying," Dr. Carver piped up, "we're already in deep shit. There is no way in hell these escaped shifters are going to simply let us recapture them. And it's obvious that our mind-wiping technology needs some tweaking."

Clive hit the table hard with his closed fist, making everyone present jump in their seats. "You think? " he bellowed, standing up so violently that his chair fell back on the floor. "Christ, what the hell am I going to tell the others?" Brett Walker raised his hand, the other shifter allowed in the meeting. He was a cheetah, and a particularly nasty one at that.

"If I wanted a bodyguard's opinion, I would have asked for it!" Clive raged, his eyes shooting sparks. Brett pursed his lips and stared back at the furious benefactor. "You'll have to kill them," he said quietly, steepling his fingers.

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"Excuse me?" Dr. Carver said.

"Kill them," Brett said again, raising his brow. "It's the only way.

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