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Shayla ’ s , would make the journey to Gardas. From there, their souls would travel onto Gelfar, the ship that would usher their souls to Gronak or Imel – the resting places for evil and good souls, respectively.
    Kyran gave Shayla a passing glance. She had died quickly, but he couldn’t bring himself to offer her that same piece of solace. Though he wished her soul no ill will, she had forfeited her life when she ’ d lied to him.
    From what he had gleaned of the argument, the local killings had been a means to draw Shayla away from the pack, as well as draw the attention of the Hunters. His mate had been killed by a Hunter, which could make even the most docile of the Lycans go rogue, but Shayla had added to Joey’s perceived injury by protecting the Hunter.
    He sent a prayer to Goddess Lelah so that she would collect their bodies, before he exhaled a sigh of relief. He could have been mated to a liar, but on the heels of the revelation was the telltale sound of a bullet being chambered.
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    Alexis had him in her line of sight. Keyword had. She should have known he would be too fast with his already elevated speed and her declining reaction time. Alexis looked around to find the Lycan stepping from behind the tree to her right.
    His hair was like a windblown shadow, its length and details lost to the darkness of the forest around him. He stood tall and was cloaked in an intimidating amount of muscle that lay rippling under sun-kissed skin.
    She struggled to lift her gun again, but her strength abandoned her, fleeing from the advancing threat. Giving up, she reached for the locator on her earring, but the Lycan, having reached her side, stopped her, his hand holding her wrist in his unforgiving grasp.
    “I won’t hurt you, Hunter.”
    A nice Lycan. Yeah, right.
    It went against nature, which seemed fitting considering their very existence went against the natural order of things.
    She must have said something out loud, because the Lycan laughed .
    “Go to sleep, Hunter. You’ll live to kill my kind another day.”
    Alexis found herself being pulled into the arms of darkness, knowing that what the Lycan said wasn ’ t true. She wasn ’ t coming back to hunt anyone.

C HAPTER 5
    KYRAN WALKED INTO HIS COMPOUND where he continued past the murmurs and gasps to the infirmary. He began triage in preparation for the surgery to repair the heinous wound on her stomach.
    “Mikko,” Ronan said. “What is she doing here?”
    “Having surgery.”
    Ronan snapped at the rest of the pack to leave before he turned back to Kyran.
    “Why would you risk the pack’s safety for her?”
    “If you aren’t going to help, brother, then leave.”
    Kyran spared Ronan a glance before he put on a scrub gown. He went over to the sink while his brother settled for wearing a track in the tile floor. He finished scrubbing with the Betadine soap scrub brush before Ronan began repeating his actions.
    “I’ll help you, but I need to know why you risk our secrecy.”
    “It will have to wait for later.”
    Ronan grunted his understanding, and they both settled in for saving the Hunter’s life.
    Due to their elevated healing capabilities, Lycans usually didn ’ t require surgery, but when it was necessary, it was good to have someone capable on hand to handle the wounded. As they neared the end of the three hour surgery, Kyran explained how he found her.
    After highlighting the details of Shayla ’ s betrayal to both her brother and ultimately the pack, he explained the reason for his risk.
    “You know as well as I do that she won ’ t tell us anything, Kyran.”
    “She will, because I will give her no choice.”
    “What are you going to threaten her with? Her life? She will laugh you right out of this cave.”
    “I ’ m not dense enough to believe that she would give me anything based on a threat. I’m going to offer her something else.”
    “I can think of a lot of things I would do for intel on the Hunters, but sheathing