Instead, he took the chance to drink in the sight of her. He didn't do anything to force her to turn, didn't make any aggressive sounds. Even fully out, she stood with her back to him for several long minutes. A small female form unfolding itself out of the Jeep. His beast went preternaturally quiet as a hand emerged to close over the door and slide it even farther back. A slender leg covered in dark blue denim and a black ankle-length boot touched the ground. Still he waited.until, at last, the door slid open and back. Dust settled, revealing the vehicle's rental plates. He didn't know who the hell she was, but she smelled disturbingly like Tally and he wanted to know why.įive minutes later, the driver stopped trying to restart the car. He could smell the sharp, clean bite of her fear, but it was the oddly familiar yet indefinably wrong scent under the fear mask that had him determined to see her face.īreathing hard but not truly winded, he came to a stop in the middle of the road behind her, daring her to run him over. But she kept stalling, her panic causing her to overload the computronics that controlled the vehicle. She'd been hiding outside.īy the time he reached the spot, the driver was trying to back out. If she'd been inside the bar, she'd have heard the announcement and known to take a detour.īut she hadn't been in the bar.
Usually DarkRiver would have already taken care of it, but because another small landslide had occurred in almost the exact same spot two days ago, this one had been left until it - and the affected slope - could be assessed by experts. The landslide had occurred only forty-five minutes ago. The Jeep screeched to a halt, probably avoiding the rubble blocking the road by bare centimeters. As the driver would be discovering right about.now! The leopard might react on instinct, but the human side of Clay's mind was functioning just fine.
Instead of swearing in defeat, Clay bared his teeth in a ruthless grin, knowing something the driver didn't, something that turned his pursuit from stupid to sensible.
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