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Army as long as he had. Although he seemed to take his duty seriously, she wasn’t quite sure if he believed in his mission or not. He just did what was expected of him. That was another reason it was kind of surprising that he had been discharged. She didn’t know the full reason. It was classified, but she did know it had something to do with Kyle’s drug habits.
    The Kyle that she had known back then had always kept a tight lid on his emotions. But she knew he had a temper. That was all over the therapist scrawl in the notes about his psychological evaluation coming into the Army. It was one of the reasons that Oak Tree had been so fascinated by Kyle. He had been in their ‘special projects’ program. Kelly had started to feel very uncomfortable towards the end as they started changing up the different medicines that they would give the soldiers that she was attending to.
    She knew that the medicine the soldiers were being given was doing something to them. She had watched Kyle the closest. Over the course of that six months, she watched as he slowly started to fray at the edges. His tight reins of control started to unbuckle and let loose. There were times when she would hear him snap at a fellow soldier. That was unexpected and completely out of character for him. She thought it was probably just a matter of time before he snapped altogether. That thought terrified her as well as the idea that she had played some part in it. It was the reason she had raised concern with her superiors. She also knew that was why she had been abruptly reassigned after her initial six-month stint.
    Returning to the present, Kelly reached over and took Kyle’s hand. The movement caused his gaze to shift to her. He had been so quiet that she wondered if he’d forgotten that she was even there. There was no way that she was going to forget that he was there. This was real. This time elapsing between them now was time that she knew she would never get a chance to experience again.
    “Thank you,” she said. It was a simple sentiment that expressed so many things that she felt inside of her. Touching his skin made her feel alive.
    Kyle took his hand away from hers, and she immediately felt the loss. “It’s what anyone would do,” he replied and looked away from her. The words weighed heavily on her, because she knew as well as he did that they weren’t true. There weren’t many people who would go out of their way to help people in need. That was why someone like Kyle was such a rarity.
    Kelly had done some research before coming to Copper City. She did know that when people were in trouble, shifters, in particular, they tended to their way to Copper City and the Urban Dwellers. The trio of men were easy to find as they frequented their popular nightclub.
    Kelly figured the night club was a facade for other business dealings, those of illegal kind, and if she dug deep enough she figured she’d be able to find proof that she was right. Eric Carmichael was the CEO of one of the largest software companies in the world. He was a bona fide billionaire in his own right even though he had come from a long line of very rich, well-established men. Anthony Atwood was the son of a popular politician. Even though he didn’t trade on his father’s name in the same way, Anthony had become the foremost expert in shifter psychological behavior. He was frequently called on to be an expert witness in cases where shifters were on trial. His testimony had saved more than a few shifters from death row.
    That’s what made Kyle such an enigma. Next to Eric and Tony, Kyle’s more modest background paled in comparison. Not to her, but to the rest of the world. She figured that was because he was the strong silent type. He didn’t take up space the same way that his business partners did. When they would make press announcements for the Urban Dwellers, Kyle always stood in the background. He didn’t have anything to say, seemingly content to let Eric