* Kristen Bauer 's fingers flew across the keys on her laptop as we sat outside a small coffee cafe on the corner of a busy street. Sebastian Monroe dozed, leaned up against the brick wall and I watched the people as they passed by. "Any luck?" I asked as Kristen typed away. "No, there's been no activity at Gracie-Lynn Jericho 's last known whereabouts." I slammed my fist down on the table. "I fucking knew he would move her!" Sebastian cracked an eye open. "Aren't you a little old to be having tantrums?" I left my seat and paced the small area. We were the only one's on the outside patio of the coffee shop. "Shut up. I don't need any lip from you." I snapped. Kristen arched a brow, her sexy lips smirking. "You should know he isn't going to leave her where he can be traced. Come on, man, you gotta be smarter than that." It wasn't a question and Monroe was about to get his check cashed. "No, really? I actually assumed he would send me a golden, engraved invitation to where he's keeping her." I popped back at him. He was really pissing me off. "There's got to be some way to track him. I mean, he's got to have a cellphone. An email. Something." Kristen's voice drifted down my spine and my balls tightened. Fuck, I wanted her. This mission was going to put me in an early grave, and not just after Donovan Wilson tried to take my head. Being this close to Kristen, day in and day out, was going to drive me mad. "Well, Taz, you're the whiz at this stuff - find Donovan." I sat back down. Her eyes met mine. "What do you think I've been trying to do since we got here, to the only place with free WiFi in this godforsaken place." She sipped her coffee and flipped me off, then went back to her laptop. "You offerin'?" I quipped back. "Not in this lifetime." She smiled sweetly with that dig. I rolled my eyes and waited while she went back to her typing. "I've traced his phone number back to being a burner phone. So, I can't access his records through a cell phone company. He has zero bank accounts and assets. It's like this motherfucker is a ghost." She said as she chewed her inner lip and kept clicking. I wondered what all the hell she was typing. "Looks like he went off radar four years ago. Cleared out everything and disappeared. Off the grid." I rubbed my head. "Keep digging. There's gotta be something."


* Kristen Bauer 's fingers flew across the keys on her laptop as we sat outside a small coffee cafe on the corner of a busy street. Sebastian Monroe dozed, leaned up against the brick wall and I watched the people as they passed by. "Any luck?" I asked as Kristen typed away. "No, there's been no activity at Gracie-Lynn Jericho 's last known whereabouts." I slammed my fist down on the table. "I fucking knew he would move her!" Sebastian cracked an eye open. "Aren't you a little old to be having tantrums?" I left my seat and paced the small area. We were the only one's on the outside patio of the coffee shop. "Shut up. I don't need any lip from you." I snapped. Kristen arched a brow, her sexy lips smirking. "You should know he isn't going to leave her where he can be traced. Come on, man, you gotta be smarter than that." It wasn't a question and Monroe was about to get his check cashed. "No, really? I actually assumed he would send me a golden, engraved invitation to where he's keeping her." I popped back at him. He was really pissing me off. "There's got to be some way to track him. I mean, he's got to have a cellphone. An email. Something." Kristen's voice drifted down my spine and my balls tightened. Fuck, I wanted her. This mission was going to put me in an early grave, and not just after Donovan Wilson tried to take my head. Being this close to Kristen, day in and day out, was going to drive me mad. "Well, Taz, you're the whiz at this stuff - find Donovan." I sat back down. Her eyes met mine. "What do you think I've been trying to do since we got here, to the only place with free WiFi in this godforsaken place." She sipped her coffee and flipped me off, then went back to her laptop. "You offerin'?" I quipped back. "Not in this lifetime." She smiled sweetly with that dig. I rolled my eyes and waited while she went back to her typing. "I've traced his phone number back to being a burner phone. So, I can't access his records through a cell phone company. He has zero bank accounts and assets. It's like this motherfucker is a ghost." She said as she chewed her inner lip and kept clicking. I wondered what all the hell she was typing. "Looks like he went off radar four years ago. Cleared out everything and disappeared. Off the grid." I rubbed my head. "Keep digging. There's gotta be something."

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  1. Sebastian MonroeSeptember 23, 2018 at 11:06 AM

    * I leaned my chair back against the brick wall while Cooper and Kristen flirted. I closed my eyes, but I was hyper aware of everything going on around me. I knew there was an SUV that had passed this same corner three times now. Either they were lost or they were scoping us out. "Heads up...that's the third time that SUV has driven passed this corner." I said it without any inflection. To her credit, Kristen never missed a beat. She winked at me in understanding and Cooper seemed to slouch even more. "Maybe it's a calling card." Cooper remarked. I half shrugged. "Or that golden engraved invitation you were looking for." I could still hear Kristen typing. "Maybe you should let them take me. You can track me easy. I bet they'd take me to Gracie." That caught my attention. "That's not a bad idea, actually." To the casual observer, we could have been talking about the weather. "You're right, it's not a bad idea, it's a fucking stupid one. No way in hell are we sending you into that vipers den." Cooper was trying to keep his voice level, but he was pissed. "Actually, you don't get to decide what I do, Coop. I do." Kristen popped a tab in her mouth and swallowed coffee. She passed a small black palm pilot looking thing to him. "See that blinking dot? That's me." She patted her stomach. "We won't have long before it dissolves, but it should be enough for me to get in and find Gracie. So, don't drag your balls, okay?" She stood up. "Taz, I'm warning you, this is a shitty idea. Don't you do it. Don't listen to jackass over there." She packed up her laptop and then slid it towards me, grabbing just her other bag. "Keep that safe, Monroe, or I'll be taking your head back to Scotland for the bounty to replace it." She warned, slinging the bag over her shoulder. I nodded. She eyes Cooper. "You better learn how to say thank you, Coop, because you're going to owe me big when I've got Gracie safe and with me." She smiled and then exploded in rage. Her palm shoved Cooper's chest. "I fucking hate you! I don't even know why I let you talk me into this stupid ass trip!" She spun on her heel and glared at me. "And you...you're just an asshole!" With that parting shot, she stormed away from the table, her hips swaying as her boots stomped the pavement with a vengeance. "Stop her!" Cooper tried to get out of his chair, but I stopped him. "She's not some damsel in distress. She knows what she's doing. Let her do her thing. Track her. And just know, she's loaded with weapons. Those heels...have built in knives." Kristen turned the corner to walk along the street. "Just chase after the SUV like this isn't our plan when it roars by here. We'll track her, get her back and find the female in question. Then we all get to go home." I explained. Cooper was pissed, his face was dark with anger. "The plan was never to put Kristen in danger!" I sat forward. "Funny, seems to have been hers all along."

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  2. Kristen BauerSeptember 23, 2018 at 11:08 AM

    Cooper didn't like me using myself as bait, but he could fucking deal. He had no rights to boss me around. I had feelings. He was a good lay, and apparently that's all I was to him. So I pushed those feelings I had acquired back and decided to do my job. Besides. Caiden didn't raise no fool. I headed down the street a little ways from the coffee shop and turned down an alley. I looked around. Talkeetna was bigger than I thought. I figured we'd be staying in an Eskimo village eating whale blubber to keep warm. I snorted at my thoughts and smirked when the SUV that had been passing by the front of the shop turned down the alley following me. Looks like my plan was working. Now it was left up to Quinn and Sebastian to keep up. I started walking faster, like I was getting scared or something. Let a look of fear go over my face, before I glanced back. I could make out two guys in the front. I held my cheetah in check as I took off running. The SUV sped up and I pretended to be more scared as the guys pulled along beside me and I screamed like a little finicky bitch when the one on the passenger side jumped out and wrapped his dirty hand over my mouth. " Come on, Sugartits. We have orders to snatch you up. Donovan wants a word with you. " He ran his nose over my hair. " Feline shifter. You know...you sure smell an awful lot like Cooper, but not mated. Donovan will find that very interesting. " I felt a needle prick my skin just above my collarbone and I helped and started to struggle. What were they drugging me with? That wasn't part of the plan. I let my fangs lower and then I bit his cruddy palm. He cried out but didn't like go. He turned me to face him and I could make out the green of his eyes, and they were full of rage. " Fucking Bitch! " I couldn't fight as the drug took affect and I became drowsy. His palm came off my mouth as he lifted me off my feet, by my neck. His palm. Now bleeding connected with my jaw and sent me further into the void as he shoved me into the back of the SUV and I slumped as the slammed the door. The last thing I remembered before the darkness took me was him saying. He'd fucking pay me back later, but before I could let loose the sassy reply I succumbed to whatever was shot into my body.

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  3. Quinn CooperSeptember 23, 2018 at 11:09 AM

    * Just as Monroe had predicted, the SUV barreled by us. I felt sick at the thought of Kristen inside that truck, on her way to Donovan Wilson. She thought she could handle him - handle this - and I worried that she couldn't. Wilson didn't play by the rules, ever. "You just signed her death certificate, dumbass." I grabbed up her laptop and stormed to the truck. The light was blinking rapidly and moving further away from us. I slung her bag in the back seat and jumped in. Monroe barely had his ass in the seat when I gunned the engine. I tossed Kristen's little tracker at him. "Don't fucking lose her, do you understand me?" I drove like a wild man. "Should have let me drive. I'm a lot more level headed than you." My eyes left the road to snap to his. "What the fuck does that mean?" He half shrugged in that stupid way of his. "It means that you're thinking with your fucking dick! Which I reason to say is why we're in this fucking mess to begin with. You let mini-Cooper pick the direction of the man." I slammed on the brakes and watched as Sebastian slammed forward. "What the fuck, man?!" He roared. I got out of the truck and walked around to the passenger side. I popped the door open. "Get the fuck outta the truck." I gestured for him to come on. "What the hell is wrong with you?! Besides the obvious." He muttered. "Let's go. I'm going to kick your ass and get it over with. I've been wanting to do it since you first looked at my fucking mate!" I roared at him, grabbing his collar and yanking him from the truck. He landed on his feet and his eyes met mine - the blue depths starting to take on an ethereal glow. "I wouldn't fuck with me, mate, if I were you." His breathing became ragged. "It's about time you took ownership of her. She's yours. Fucking take her, Cooper, and stop being so goddamn stupid. Life is short - even for us. Don't spend another day ignoring that bond, that pull." The anger deflated right out of me then. I shoved him against the truck anyways. "What the fuck do you know about mates and bonds anyways? Everyone knows you went fucking berserk and killed your brother for the rights of Alpha and then walked away." His eyes were still swirling in that freaky fucking way. " Careful, Coop, you have no idea what you're talking about." He warned. "And neither do you. Let's face it, I'm not coming back from this mission, whether I live or die. This is it. If I die taking Donovan Wilson down with me then so be it, but then I'll have a pack to take care of." I started back towards the drivers seat of the truck, realizing Kristen was getting further away while we sat and yakked at each other. He got in and I took off again. "Want the good news or the bad news?" I cut my eyes at him. "Good news, I'm an optimist." He nodded. "The SUV stopped." I smiled. "Okay, that is good news...where?" The explosion rocked our truck and stopped it in it's track, the windshield cracking from the heat. "That's the bad news." Sebastian showed me the tracker. It was blank. I looked at the blank screen and back to the incinerated SUV. "No, no..." I got out, racing towards the wreckage. "KRISTEN!" I roared, trying to get close to the wreckage, but Sebastian grabbed me back. "She's not in there. They wouldn't have killed her that quickly. Man up! They're trying to fucking break you!" He shoved me back towards the truck and pushed me inside the passenger side before taking off, with the sound of sirens blaring behind us. *

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