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other.”
    She narrowed her eyes at his harsh tone. To think she’d been questioning his assholery. “Of course I’m aware there might be infected shifters roaming the mountains.” She poked him in the chest. “My people have spent the last two days combing our territory, but they haven’t found anything. That is the only reason I’m going to step foot on DarkStalker’s land. If there’s information there, I want to know it.” She moved away from the cougar-shifter and turned toward the door. “I have a few things to do, so have your people ready to go in an hour.”
    When Sy said nothing, she refused to look back at him. It wasn’t like he had a choice—he would accompany her to his clan’s land.
    Still, as she exited the sentry shelter and instructed her people of her plans, Kaya couldn’t quite push aside the curiosity nibbling at her mind. Why wouldn’t Sy tell her about the letters?
    And if he was telling the truth, who had blocked her from receiving them in the first place?
     
    ~~~
     
    Clenching and unclenching his fists, Sy watched Kaya shut the door behind her. Their conversation hadn’t gone the way he’d planned. If anything, things were even more fucked up between them. There was no way Kaya was going to let this go. If there was ever a person as stubborn as him—or more, for that matter—it was Kaya Geraldine Alexie.
    She seemed sincere in her declaration that she’d never received his letters. His memories of their love wanted to believe her, but Sy the man and former soldier wasn’t so easily swayed. When he’d known Kaya, she’d always gotten the information she was after. Even if, and he didn’t want to believe it, someone had kept his hundreds of letters from her, she would’ve found out eventually.
    Wouldn’t she have?
    No. He didn’t have time for this. He’d spent years getting over Kaya; he might still be attracted to her, but he couldn’t afford to hope she still felt the same. He would do his job and go back to the way things had been for the last decade. End of story.
    The doorknob turned and he schooled his face into his usual easygoing appearance. His clan members might’ve heard raised voices while waiting outside, but he hoped the GreyFire sentry shelter was insulated. He sure as hell didn’t want to deal with any of his friends’ meddling. His brother and his brother’s wife did enough of that.
    Dani strutted in and said, “Catch.” As he caught the cell phone, she said, “It’s just a cheap phone, but Kaya wants you to call your brother. Apparently, we’re leaving in an hour.”
    He opened the cheap flip phone, but didn’t dial. Instead, he said, “And just an FYI—Kaya’s coming with us.”
    Aidan frowned. “Why?”
    He shrugged. “Beats me. I’m about to pester my brother and see why I have to be the one to show her around.”
    Aidan grinned. “I hope he makes you do it. I’d love to watch.”
    Dani plopped down in one of the armchairs. “If that does happen, can I be reassigned? It’s going to take me days to get the wolf smell out of my nose as it is.”
    Sy gave them a look. “Gee, thanks for the support.”
    Aidan kept grinning and Dani shrugged. If this was how two of his friends and fellow guardians acted, he didn’t want to think what his twin brother would do. No doubt, his older-by-five minutes brother would enjoy watching him suffer around his ex-mate-to-be.
    He dialed his brother and waited. On the fourth ring, Kian answered. “Hello?”
    “Kian, it’s Sy.”
    “I was wondering when the hell you were going to call. Kaya mentioned you punching one of her sentries in the face. I’m assuming you had a reason.”
    “They were going to send me home, and you’d asked me to stay. Besides, the wolf-bastard was a little too sure of himself. Apparently, any type of ‘cat’ should be collared and spend his days chasing mice.”
    He could hear the smile in Kian’s voice. “You could’ve just told him to chase his tail, but that’s