Cougar Romance: The Traitor: Secret Shades of the Alpha Blood Series (Paranormal BBW Menage Romance) Read Online Free

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need them to die all at once. She has to be trained, she has to be
defiled for that to happen.”
    “ Does she?” the female
voice asked. More than a hint of skepticism in her voice, “Does she
really have to be defiled?”
    Diana, through her still
foggy memory, remembered. This was Sandra. The large black panther.
The one Cat had called the rouge.
    “ Of course,” Charlie
answered, “you think I don’t want to get this over with as soon as
possible?”
    “ I don’t know,” Sandra
answered, “I don’t know what you want. I do know that I haven’t
liked the way you’ve looked at that girl since you first saw
her.”
    “ Honey, that was just an
act,” Charlie said reassuringly, “you know that.”
    Charlie had lied to her.
That much was becoming clear. Cat was not the mole, Cat posed no
danger to her, Charlie did. Diana clenched her eyes closed and
cursed herself for being so stupid.
    “ How do I know that?”
Sandra asked.
    There was silence for
several moments. It seemed like Charlie couldn’t come up with an
answer to that.
    “ We should check on her,”
Charlie said finally, “it’s been a few hours.”
    Diana nearly gasped. She
could hear Charlie’s footsteps coming to the cave. There was no way
she could run from him. There was no way to escape Charlie and
Sandra, she knew that. And, if they knew that she had heard what
they were planning, they might very well kill her.
    There was nothing else to
do, Diana decided, she had to play along with them. Pretend she
still believed everything Charlie told her.
    Quickly, she closed her
eyes again just as she heard Charlie make his way into the cave and
walk next to her bed.
    “ Diana,” he called
gently.
    Diana opened her eyes
slowly and pretended, as best she could, to look around her with
confusion.
    “ Where am I? What’s
happened?” she asked.
    “ You’re still at the Salt
Lake,” Charlie said gently, “not right next to it but, close
enough.”
    “ The black cougar…” she
said blearily.
    “ You were wrong about the
cougar, Diana,” Charlie told her, “we all were. She was trying to
protect you from Cat the whole time. She didn’t want to attack you,
she wanted to bring you here. Where you would be safe.”
    Charlie sounded so genuine
that, if Diana had not known that he was lying, she might have
believed him. Still, Charlie had spent enough time with Diana to
know how curious she was. He would expect her to ask questions. So,
she did.
    “ How do you know that she
didn’t want to attack me?” Diana asked.
    “ Because of the email I
saw. The one Cat sent to Amanda,” Charlie said, “Yazzie properties
represents Zuni land to the outside world. There’s an oil drilling
company that’s been trying to get a contract to drill in the salt
lake for years. Cat finally agreed to help them. The only thing
standing in the way is the Zuni tribe and you.”
    “ Me?” I asked.
    “ When the Salt Mother
bathes in the salt lake, the lake and all the lands surrounding it
will belong to the Zuni,” Charlie said, “Cat can’t let that
happen.”
    “ And, how does Sandra
figure into this?” Diana asked.
    “ She found out before I
did,” Charlie said gently, “she knows you still don’t trust her.
She doesn’t blame you. That’s why she’s waiting
outside.”
    Diana instinctively looked
to the mouth of the cave. She could see the shadow of a tall woman
standing near the mouth.
    “ Her real name is Manaba,”
Charlie said, “she’s Navajo. But, she realized early on that the
Zuni had the true prophecy.”
    “ And you’re sure we can
trust her?” Diana asked.
    “ I’m positive, Diana,”
Charlie said eagerly taking her hands in his. He gave her that
charming cocky smile. Despite that, Diana felt a chill crawl up her
spine and she had an urge to pull her hands away. She forced
herself to keep them where they were. Charlie was, very handsome,
after all. If she rejected him so suddenly, he would suspect that
she knew what he truly