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A piña colada mean girl on the prowl.
There’s only one reason Elyse would pump her perfume that hard.
She caught someone.
Waving Dutch to keep his distance, I sprint toward the source, not caring about cover or catching a stray dart.
She’s not touching what’s mine.
The booze-trail ends near a cluster of half-collapsed villas.
I whip out poison until my throat rips down my ribs, but I’m too late.
Elyse already holds my alpha in her claws. “Kiss me like you mean it, Reese.”
Shrapnel pumps my heart.
But Reese’s brown eyes shine clear. Not glassy, hypnotized like her other G.I. thralls.
When he drops toward Elyse’s rotten mouth, steel flashes between his fingers.
Blood sprays.
Elyse clutches her throat with a musical gurgle I can’t stop to celebrate. Her mates howl, targeting Reese.
“STOP!” I whip the command ahead of my perfume.
The alpha with the rifle in Reese’s face jerks sideways.
But he’s already pulling the trigger.
No gunshot has ever been so loud.
It roars through my body. Across time. An endless boom, screaming through my head as Reese’s body drops.
I stagger, my scent weakening in the half-breath where my world ends. An alpha squeezes off a tranq.
The dart nails my forearm in a familiar, bruising sting.
Shit.
Dutch takes down the tranq shooter and wails into the other alphas from the cover of the trees.
I rip out the dart and control my pheromones while I can. I know how fast the SAS tranqs work. I have a minute, maybe seconds, to get to Reese.
While Dutch mows down the helpless targets choking on my scent, I hop Elyse’s thrashing body and drop to my knees. “Reese!”
He groans, lashes fluttering.
Shaking, I reach for his red-spattered sleeve.
So much blood.
“Say something.” I rip away his shirt, desperate to check the damage.
“Mouthwash,” he coughs weakly. “Chick’s breath stank like shitty frozen drinks.”
My vision spins with sedatives and the hot wash of relief. “It’s your pitching arm.”
