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When she got no reply, she figured the guys were in bear form and on their way.
The nurse wiggled her way back to Hannah’s room.
My God, vivisection. These men are the animals. Not Hudson, not Logan. How can they put a little girl through such torture, all in the name of shifter science and a chance to reign over a clan?
Nora’s stomach churned. What-ifs permeated her mind. Thoughts like,what if we hadn’t gotten here until tomorrow? What if we were too late?The thoughts nearly made her retch.
Hold it together, Nora, for Hannah’s sake. Hudson and Logan are almost here. No man can thwart a polar bear attack. And certainly not a duo attack.
Nora repositioned herself over Hannah’s vent and waited for the men to arrive. They were the longest minutes she’d ever had to bear.
TWENTY-FOUR
HUDSON
“Okay, Alpha, we have Hannah pinpointed on the GPS. Nora did a fantastic job. Let’s go get her.”
Hudson nodded. “On the count of three, we rush the first two guards and keep attacking till we kill them all.”
“Don’t damage all the ID badges. We need one to get in,” Logan reminded him.
With that, both men quickly stripped and prepared to shift.
“One, two, three!”
Both shapeshifter polar bears howled, growled, and rampaged straight for the first two perimeter guards. Their viciousness in the attack would not be restrained.
A couple of yelps came from the shocked guards before razor-sharp teeth dug into their jugulars. And within seconds, both men were down. Shaking off the blood splatter, Logan and Hudson went for the next two in the same grizzly fashion. And in no time, Logan shifted and raced for the key-coded door and flashed one of the guard’s entry IDs. Hudson raced in behind him after grabbing the GPS system and two dead guards.
Inside was a single elevator. Logan and Hudson nearly ripped the uniforms off the guards and slipped them on.
“Ugh,” Logan grunted. “Nothing like cold, stiff blood on your clothes.”
While buttoning up his shirt, Hudson pushed the elevator call button. “After you,” he said, gesturing toward the opening.
“Thanks,” Logan whispered, still adjusting his pants.
From the tablet’s screen, Hudson studied the map/trail Nora had traveled. If he knew building construction, which he did since that’s what he did for a living, he surmised that the vents ran parallel with the offices along the hallways. That was the direction they needed to go.
When the elevator doors opened, Hudson pointed to the right. “Down this long hall, take the first left.”
He strode down the aisle like he was supposed to be there, waving Logan to shield his six.
The facility sat eerily quiet. No voices and no noises except for the ventilation system moving stale air around. Hudson assumed all had been set for the awful morning ahead, and the diabolical doctors were gone or sleeping.
But if this extraction went well, the horrific vivisection of Hannah would never take place. Nora and Logan would be long gone, along with himself, and Hannah would be safe again in his arms.
Spying one of the CCTV cameras, he turned his face away so any security watching wouldn’t think anything of a fellow guard perhaps looking for the restroom. He safely made his way down the hall. The main fluorescent lighting had been switched off, and only low wall nightlights illuminated the way.
When Hannah’s strong scent hit him outside a door, he stopped and pulled out the tablet to see he was right next to the location Nora had tagged for them.
Logan came up behind him. Hudson tried the door handle, but it was locked.
He noticed a tiny green light attached to the handle. He pointed to the guard’s ID card dangling from the lanyard around Logan’s neck.
Logan flashed a toothy grin as he put it in front of the laser.
Click.The door opened.
