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bigger
tracks. Male.”
    “No cat, Uncle. There is no
supernaturally big cat.”
    “The great magic of this world is hard
to deny. No kid could get up where these signs were. Near the old
cave.”
    Dear God. The stranger who’d come to
her office? Or another like him? So much for running, he would
scent her. Hell.
    “When? Exactly when?”
    He nodded as if he approved her taking
this more seriously now.
    “Three days ago.”
    Lugar had already been here before.
Well, he’d said he tracked her. She was running stupid. Not
thinking. Shit. Shit. Shit.
    “You’ll take the dogs,
then?”
    “No. Not the big dogs. I’ll take
Gix.”
    “Hell, Misha,” he scolded. “He’s only a
Boston Terrier and a small one at that.”
    “He’ll warn me of intruders though. He
trusts me. That’s all I need.”
    “The big ass damn cat will eat him and
spit out the seeds.”
    “I won’t allow harm to come to him.
I’ll keep him in or go out with him.” Hmmm. Before there had been
no doubt that the cat would not harm Gix, because she was the cat.
Now she had to wonder if she could lose little Gix to the
unpredictable, strange male cat.
    “Even Gix should stay at home. I’ll be
fine alone,” she added.
    “Nope. I want a dog to go with you.” He
scratched his head. “The little hellion, Gix, would be honored to
die in your defense, if that’s what’s worrying you.” Uncle Joe read
her far too well. “I wish you’d take my, Mals, Jake and Paul
too.”
    “Taking your favorite two Belgian
Malinois won’t be necessary.” She smiled lovingly. Uncle Joseph
imported, bred and trained the dogs for police work. Placing them
all over the country.
    “I insist.”
    “Not necessary.” Her heart jerked in
her chest, the beat of it distracting. That the two dogs might be
big enough to harm the big male in cat form, made her fear for
Lugar. Irrational, inexplicable. Man, she was crazed by the male.
The point was to run and hide from him not protect him.
    Still, she did not want him hurt in
this insane, misguided quest of his to take her to his
leader.
    “They will want to protect
you.”
    “Not this time, Uncle.”
    “I see.”
    * * * *
    Lugar landed what appeared to be a
Piper on nearby landing strip at the Nashville airport. The small
plane was not as it appeared, but was the ship he’d landed on Earth
in just a few days ago. His people had learned to be wary of the
earth humans three hundred years ago and acted accordingly.
Discretion and common sense suspicion was warranted.
    His senses told him she was near. Misha
walked through the airport, very close by. Her scent called to
him.
    Time to check in with home. He pushed
the button on his wrist com. He walked a fine and dangerous line,
trusting no one and being truthful with no one.
    Things were not proceeding as planned.
He was only a few hours delayed. The she-cat’s instincts of
self-preservation served her well while his own were shot all to a
black hell and back.
    She had him on the hunt, running after
her, when he anticipated having her halfway home by this
time.
    “Commander, the queen awaits news from
you. You have tracked the lost female?”
    “Not much to report yet.”
    I must inform you our sources tell us
one of Gald’s men is only hours behind you, perhaps less,” Cord at
Eliavan command center said.
    “Why would he become personally
involved?”
    “Unknown, sir. We intercepted covert
communications from Gald to the ship as it left Eliava. Thought
you’d want the info.”
    Damn. Lugar knew Gald too well for the
cruel fool he was. His very blood roared up. Gald would not have
the female.
    She was his now. Under his protection
whether she wanted it or not.
    * * * *
    “You think the commander will kill the
she-cat?” Zeff Harro asked the question as their plane flew just
above the cloud cover, fast and straight for Tennessee less than
one hour behind Eliavan Special Forces commander, Lugar
Rova.
    “That’s his mission, Harro,” Vadeen
Sneal answered.