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She definitely didn’t like the flat, cold tone Cabal used now.
“She’s always a problem when she’s here or at Sanctuary,” Jonas answered.
Cassa’s eyes narrowed. She was never a problem at Sanctuary. The Feline Breed stronghold was homier, and a damned sight more welcoming to her than the Wolf Breed compound she was in now.
“You don’t know how to handle her,” Cabal injected.
Handle her? No one handled her, period.
“Only with a whip and chair,” Jonas growled. “Callan and Merinus give her much too much freedom in Sanctuary. She thinks she deserves it elsewhere.”
“And this is my problem how?” Cabal argued. “She’s a reporter. You should have known better than to allow the invitation she was given to stay, to stand.”
Bodies shifted. Cassa was dying to look over the top of the shrubs, but leaned to the side instead to try to get a view through the opening in the foliage.
The glimmer of light from a nearby building revealed the two men. Jonas was still dressed in his tuxedo, Cabal though had changed into jeans, a T-shirt, a rain resistant jacket and boots. His black-striped golden blond hair dripped with the misty rain and fell long to his shoulders.
His shoulders were broad, his waist lean, his thighs muscular and his legs long. Standing there in the rain, he looked like the male animal he was. In his prime, ready for action. Sexy as hell. Mouth-wateringly male.
She breathed in slow and easy, and felt the familiar slick warmth between her thighs.
“Just make certain she’s in her cabin and well guarded, if you don’t mind.” Jonas ordered in a drawl heavy with mockery.
“And if I mind?” Cabal asked carefully.
Jonas’s teeth flashed in a hard, cold smile as the chilly rain dripped along his face and saturated his short, clipped hair.
“Then I might make you part of her protection detail rather than sending you to Glen Ferris. Come to think of it, that might be a good idea after all.”
Cabal’s brilliant green eyes narrowed, and Cassa could have sworn she saw the glitter of the amber flecks within the green as he stared back at the other breed.
“I’ll check on her.” The hard fury that echoed in his normally cold voice surprised Cassa and sent a chill racing down her spine.
She had to get back to her cabin before he arrived. If he found her sneaking around in the rain, or God forbid, found her missing from her cabin, she could just imagine the consequences.
She slid back from her position silently. Heart racing, she fought to move slowly, carefully.
She was running out of time anyway. The single pill she had taken only gave her a small amount of time. Two hours, the information had warned. She had spent most of that time testing it against the Breeds patrolling the compound.
Once the time limit was reached, her natural scent would return quickly—that meant she had less than half an hour to get back to the cabin.
She couldn’t let Cabal know she hadn’t been there all along, and she damned sure couldn’t face him while that drug was still in her system.
They continued to discuss her, much to her dismay, as she slowly retreated. She could hear their voices, but not what they were saying. Once she reach a safe distance, she straightened again and moved hastily through the shadows back to her cabin.
She used the heavy trees that grew throughout the compo
und to hide her return. Skirting the areas she knew the Breeds were prone to guard more heavily, she made it back to her cabin in twenty minutes. The delays were nerve-wracking as she waited for sentries to move slowly past her or when she was forced to backtrack to avoid them.
Rushing back through the unlocked window of her cabin, she raced to the bathroom as she heard a vehicle pulling up in the small driveway outside.
Twisting the knobs to her shower, she quickly adjusted the water and stripped the wet clothes from her body. Tossing the saturated fabric into a nearby closet, she grabbed her scented shampoo, squeezed a large amount into her palm and worked it quickly into her long hair before snatching the bottle of bath gel from a shelf and soaping up a sponge.
She needed scent, lots of it. Pear scented shampoo in her hair, apple scented bath gel. Lather built over her body from head to toe as she fought to make damned certain Cabal had plenty to smell when she faced him.
Rinsing quickly, she beat back the racing of her heart, forced herself to calm and assured herself the drug would have time to get out of her system by the time she conditioned her hair, rinsed it and shut the water off.
Minutes later she left the bathroom, her hair bound in a towel, a heavy robe wrapped around her and plenty of apple scented body lotion smoothed over her.
