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She nodded, then slowly rose to her feet and moved back as Lobo took her place.
If the scent was well known to Devil, then it was possible, highly possible, it was known to Lobo as well.
“Familiar,” Lobo muttered. “But I can’t get enough of it to identify it.”
“My problem as well.” Devil grimaced before rising and moving to Kate.
His arm went around her possessively, drawing her to his side as he turned to Graeme and gave the other man a nod.
Flicking his fingers to the Breeds behind him, Graeme moved aside to allow them to haul the soldier to his feet as he groaned weakly.
“Lock him in the cells,” Graeme ordered harshly. “I’ll be in later to question him.”
The cells were just as stated. Iron cells, secure and impossible to escape once locked. They were buried beneath the stables with only one way in and only one way out. Once they had him down there, he was at their mercy. And Devil knew there was little, if any, mercy in Graeme for anyone besides himself.
Graeme knew loyalty. He understood compassion. Mercy to the enemy was something else entirely. That didn’t exist in Graeme’s little world. And he sure as hell didn’t apologize for it.
“Call Da, let him know he’s here.”
Devil looked down at her, then back to Graeme, and read the other Breed’s instinctive rejection of the request.
Well, not a request exactly, Devil admitted with a small grain of amusement.
“I’ll call him personally.” It was Lobo who agreed to the demand voiced at the last minute, as a request, Devil thought as he hid his smile and nodded to the man he’d followed since his liberation from the Council lab.
“Lilith, get Jonas out here. Now.” Lobo turned to the small female Breed who had entered the room silently.
Lobo’s personal assistant was a quiet, submissive little Wolf Breed who always seemed rather painfully shy.
Pushing a pair of glasses up her nose, Lilith made a quick note on the small electronic pad she carried.
“And I want a team together now! By God I want to know where that bastard was hiding and why he wasn’t detected before he got into my fucking house.” He stared around the room then, his face darkening. “And find my fucking stepdaughter now.”
The throttled fury that lit his voice had everyone moving. Only Kate remained in place, her hold on Devil’s arm tightening as he moved to search for Khileen.
“She’s in her room,” she stated softly, though Lobo clearly heard her.
He turned back to her slowly. “How do you know where she is? Even I can’t catch her scent from that distance.”
Kate grimaced then before a small smile tugged at her lips.
“I kind of put this in before leaving the bathroom.” She removed the small earbud communication device with a slight shrug. “She just woke up from her nap and activated her side. Give her a minute to figure out something’s going on—”
“Oh my God! And you let me sleep through it? You fucking bitch!” Khileen screeched across the line.
A second later her bedroom door slammed farther up the hall as she came racing to Kate’s room.
She came to a full stop at the doorway, eyes wide, shocked, looking around as though searching for some remnants of whatever she missed.
Then her gaze lit on Kate with Devil’s arm wrapped around her. It dropped to her friend’s neck, her lips parting, eyes narrowing.
“So fucking not fair,” she muttered then.
“Your language is deteriorating, Khi,” Lobo chastised her gently, warningly.
“Yeah, well the Big Bad Wolf’s not exactly here,” she grumbled before turning back to Kate and shaking her head in disappointment. “So not fair, Katie,” she repeated. “You were supposed to tell me if it happened.”
“It happened.” The laughter in Kate’s voice had Devil wanting to smile.
