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As soon as the show was finished, Pisces couldn’t help himself. Even as the people continued to mill around, snapping pictures of them, he swam to the far side of the aquarium. He rubbed his side against a tile that appeared like any other. It depressed ever-so-slightly.
In each aquarium and tank, there was a button. If, for some reason, a shifter had an emergency and needed to leave a shift early, the Roush brothers—their pods’ alpha and beta—had planned for that contingency. Each place had a panel that a shifter could push with their snout, body, or even a fin. It would set off an alarm in the security office, and immediate action would be taken to have the shifter removed from the aquarium.
Pisces desperately needed that to happen...and fast.
To Pisces’s relief, through the haze of the water, he saw several people arrive. The first was Eban, their head of security. The next was Gunner, a fellow bottlenose dolphin shifter. Gunner was usually paired with Sylvia for dolphin shows, and Pisces figured he was there to replace him. The final person making up the trio was Doctor Anthony.
Probably called because I asked to be removed.
As soon as the last of the visitors filed out, Eban closed the doors.
Pisces quickly shifted, taking on his human form. As soon as possible, he pulled himself from the pool. He took the towel Doc Anthony handed him and began drying himself, uncaring of his nudity.
“What happened, Pisces?” Barry asked, giving him a worried look. “You’ve never faltered before.”
“Are you injured?” Doc Anthony asked, sweeping his gaze over his frame in an assessing manner. “Pull a muscle or something?”
“Is that why you asked to be removed?” Eban asked, resting his hands on his hips.
“I smelled my mate while in the air doing tricks,” Pisces quickly explained, nodding at Gunner in thanks as the guy grinned and offered him congratulations before diving into the water. “He was sitting somewhere in areas A through C.”
Scoffing, Barry grinned at him. “That would explain it.”
Eban nodded. “Okay. I’ll have Ovram start pulling footage. Maybe he can do a facial rec or something like that.” He patted Pisces on the shoulder, offering him a grim smile. “We’ll find your mate.”
Relief filled Pisces as he nodded. “Thanks.” Ovram was their pod’s technical guru. If anyone could help him start meeting the people in the stands, he could.
Before he could say more, Eban’s phone rang. As the head enforcer answered the call, Pisces took the clothes the doc offered him and pulled them on. Then he slipped his feet into the sandals that Gunner had discarded before folding the other man’s clothes.
“Glad you’re out of the water already,” Eban stated, drawing Pisces’s attention as he lowered his phone. “Alpha Kaiser has a tracking job for you.” Beckoning, Eban started toward the door. “Come on.”
Pisces would much rather have stalked the park trying to find his mate, but he knew an order when he heard it. Following Eban, he hoped whatever his alpha needed wouldn’t take long. Pisces followed Eban out the doors and settled onto the passenger seat of the utility cart the guy must have used to get there so swiftly.
Eban drove them out of the park to the attached private residential area. There were condos as well as a few homes scattered about the area. Stopping before the main complex that contained offices and conference rooms, Eban put the cart intopark.
Without a word, Pisces followed the head enforcer through the building to Alpha Kaiser’s large office.
As Pisces drew close to the door, the scent he was becoming obsessed with finding lingered in the air. His mouth watered, and his arousal spiked. Just as Eban opened the door, he paused and turned toward him, arching a brow in silent question.
Eban had obviously scented his arousal.
Pisces couldn’t help it. He grinned as he moved past the enforcer. “You won’t have to contact Ovram about the security footage,” he declared as he looked around the room. His gaze fell on the only man that he didn’t recognize—a black-haired male with worry filling his beautiful brown eyes.
“Why?” Eban closed the door behind them.
“Because that’s my mate,” Pisces murmured, unable to tear his gaze away from the gorgeous human before him.
Chapter Two
That’s my mate.
Peter felt his lips part as shock flooded him. “I-I am?” he would forever deny the squeak in his voice.
The handsome man’s honey-brown eyebrows shot up as a rakish grin curved his full lips. “Yep.” He slowly moved closer, as if he were stalking Peter. His hazel eyes turned predatory, and he licked his bottom lip. “You know what that means?”
Sucking in a sharp breath, Peter clenched his hands in his lap as the man drew close enough to touch. “Yeah.”
“Glad you could join us, Pisces,” Alpha Kaiser rumbled, drawing Peter’s attention and interrupting his staring. Amusement laced his deep voice. “You arrived more swiftly than I’d anticipated, you being part of the dolphin show, after all.”
