For years, they had done their job, making rank, and rising in the company until they were all at the top of their field. Calli was the Head Enforcer, Cherri the Lead Medical Advisor, and Rissa was the Head of the Technological Section. Then it all went wonky when Calli’s mate showed up. Rissa loved Kade, however, he was the catalyst of sorts when it came to this whole prophecy drama. Who the hell knew what they were supposed to do, other than survive?
The Ulfer were shifters who for one reason or another had a missing gene in their DNA, it made them just a bit crazy, and the head of the crazies was a man called the Bondi King. Mr. Twisted Mate was the Bondi King’s right hand man. The Ulfer wanted to use the humans for their own gain. They basically thought that humans were the inferior race. It really was a mess. Humans couldn’t regulate the magical community so they had the Drekinn, now somehow all of that changed. The contract was taken away from the Drekinn and given to another company, the Prentiss Agency, which was led by the Bondi King, even if the humans were unaware of it. Rissa and her friends were on the run, labeled as Most Wanted, because they refused to be nice, little sheep and follow.
They all escaped New York City to a huge compound hidden right inside New York State and they could still go into the city, although in disguise. Rissa refused to hide in the city alone—it would be stupid. In addition, she thought as she climbed out the window, balanced on the ledge, and looked around, stupidity did not run in her family.
Walking through the main halls was not going to be possible, because they would notice she was carrying the huge backpack containing all of the items she needed in order to survive in the wild for a few days—she hoped. Now here she stood on a ledge, looking down, wondering how her life had taken such a wrong turn.
She knew it started all those years ago when she met Calli and Cherri. It was their fault; it would totally serve them right if she never spoke to them ever again—which could certainly happen, if she broke her neck jumping down from the second story of the compound’s house. Taking a deep breath Rissa got ready to jump when she heard Calli and Cherri’s voice coming from inside her room.
“Damn it, Ris, where the fuck are you?” Calli bellowed and Rissa paused. She didn’t want to make a sound, their damn wolf hearing would give her away, and she would be damned if she got caught now.
“Calli, she's hiding because she knows she made an ass out of herself on Christmas and doesn’t want to face the man again. I mean who would, 'Weeiioo, Weeiioo', that's enough to have a hard on go soft when you scent your mate. Then she challenged him in front of the whole fucking Pack? WOW!” Cherri laughed.
Shit, she wasn’t afraid to meet the man, why did they insist on refusing to believe the obvious? He was a butt ass, crazy murderer who she was not going to have little murderess or murderer cubs with. She refused to produce a clan of killers—it was that simple. Plus, did they forget the whole sex vid? Really. Bitches, Rissa thought and then opened her mouth to say it again to them when she remembered where she was. Shit, hiding, duh.
“I know, but ya gotta love the fact that she tried to kill him. I mean no one saw her grabbing my Christmas gift and protecting the ‘family,’” Calli said smugly.
“Thank the Gods, it wasn't loaded,” Cherri sighed.
“Well it was, but she didn’t take off the safety. Remember, that's when Mr. Twisted grabbed the gun out of her hand and said she needed a ‘fucking spanking.’” Calli snorted.
Oh the humiliation, Rissa thought. She should just jump for the fucking hell of it.
“Wait,” Cherri said. “Can you hear that?”
Rissa gasped and looked up; an eagle was flying above the compound. Of course, the asshole would be early. Simon, that's what he said his real name was, ha, like she would believe that. No, he was Mr. Twisted and that was it.
“Shit, it's Simon, Kade was going to talk to him and explain everything, and then we were gonna bring her in and make her apologize. Now what the fuck are we gonna do?” Calli said and then made a growling noise she made when she was frustrated.
“We have to find her. She's just hiding. I mean, please, we know everywhere she would go,” Cherri said.
“By the way, we have checked all of those places,” Calli said.
“Well, Billy B is with Pilar, she said Rissa asked her to watch him for her,” Cherri said.
“Crap, she is going into the city,” Calli said and Rissa smirked and waited, they would go to the tunnels and look at the new underground transport cars she designed and they used for travel. Recently, they used it to bring Pack members there who joined the Drekinn Pack.
Rissa listened as they walked to the door and got ready to jump again when she heard Kade, the other Alpha. “What the fuck is going on?”
“Huh?” Calli said.
“Simon said when he flew in there was someone on the ledge, I figured it was Rissa since you were going to talk to her,” Kade ground out.
“Rissa? You mean MY MATE is the one who is on the Fuckin’ ledge?!”
Rissa heard someone roar and that was all it took. Her fight or flight instinct went into high gear. “You will never take me alive!” Rissa cried and jumped as she heard her best friends, and now labeled traitors, laugh and clap.
Rissa landed nicely on her ass, in the middle of the shrubs, and said a very unladylike word. Like that was going to change the situation. She jumped up and ran, not looking back and only hearing the men yelling for someone to stop her.
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