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could do anything so I pretended to stretch and roll over, to face him and see how he intended to kill me. He had a knife, I pretended to panic—so I could take him off guard, right? When we fought and it was obvious I was better, and I got him to drop the knife, Tyson jumped in. He grabbed the knife and the bastard sliced me across the side. Then… then…” Kaitlyn’s faced crumpled, the tears flowed harder.
    Cassie murmured comforting words, her heart breaking for Kaitlyn. Her friend’s wild ways had always worried her, feared they’d make her a target. But for someone to actually want her dead? Why would they hate Kaitlyn so badly they felt like they had to destroy her?
    “Then,” she continued after a deep breath, her voice still cracking, “I don’t know what happened. It was like an out of body experience or something. My whole body felt like it was on fire, everything overly sensitive. I heard these animal sounds, like growling and snarling. I could see both of them getting taken down and shredded. But it was like I was too close to see what was killing them. Then I blacked out. I don’t think for long.” Kaitlyn took another deep breath. “When I came to, there was so much blood. They weren’t moving. I grabbed my dress and ran out. They’re dead and I think I killed them.”
     
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    Jace walked directly to the warehouse. His heightened senses didn’t pick up on anyone else in the vicinity, other than himself and the girls. Cassie would be okay with Kaitlyn, her friend would die before she would hurt her. If he hadn’t seen how close the two women were in the last several months, he may have had reservations given what he recently realized about Kaitlyn.
    He smelled the acrid stench of death coming from the building. He couldn’t see the sports car Kaitlyn said Tyson drove. It must be inside. Walking through the open side door, Jace’s vision didn’t need to adjust to the dark. He saw just as well in the dark as daylight.
    What was spread before him, along with what bits he’d heard from Kaitlyn’s story on the phone, and what he knew her tendencies were at the club, he could make out the story of what had happened.
    The warehouse had no heavy equipment stored inside. It was bare except for a corner that had been turned into sparse living quarters with a fridge, table with a hot plate and microwave, two sturdy chairs, and a bed sided by a couple of beaten down dressers. The Roadster was parked at the far end by the large garage door. Two naked bodies were spread out in between. And by spread out, Jace meant literally. Blood coated the floor and spattered the walls. A trail of organs led to one body. The other body was missing a couple of limbs. A quick scan deeper into the warehouse… oh, there they were.
    Even with his past, Jace hadn’t seen carnage like this before. He’d sensed the honesty in Kaitlyn’s emotional turmoil. She was confused, distraught, and terrified. Was it possible a woman in her late twenties could not know what she was?

Chapter Four

    The hair on Jace’s arms rose the same time he sensed others in the area. He turned to sprint back to Cassie when a scream tore through the air. He ran out of the building, resisting the change that wanted to take over, unwilling to scare Cassie away before he had a chance to explain to her what he was. He sensed multiple other males in the vicinity, all like him.
    He rounded the back of the trailer and skidded to a stop, before he could make a bad situation worse. Cassie was on the ground, eyes wide, panicked, with her back pressed tight to the building. Two men, dressed head to toe in black, weapons strapped all over their bodies, stood with guns pointed on a very scared, very large reddish-brown… wolf. Kaitlyn.
    Her teeth bared, she snarled as she swung her head toward Jace. She didn’t lunge toward him or the two men, but held her ground in front of Cassie, protecting her. She sniffed the air in Jace’s direction