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desperation.  “All of us. Your mating changes everything.  There’s more going on here than you think.”
    Aidan laughed. “Oh, yeah?” he said. “I thought you didn’t know anything. Isn’t that what you just told your daughter?”
    “ I said that I don’t know where they are, not that I don’t know what they want.”
    “ I don’t care what they want,” Aidan said, and I was astonished by just how cold his voice was. “I won’t negotiate with anyone that keeps women in cages and uses them like toys.”
    “It doesn’t have to be like that,” Dad said, and yes, he did sound desperate.  So desperate that I swore I could almost smell it.  Almost.  And Jesus, had he just admitted that the cougars kept their women in cages?  I felt shaken to the core.  My chest seized up and it hurt to pull in a breath. I swiveled around trying to get a look at them, but the trunk was still open blocking them from my view.
    “ No, it doesn’t,” Aidan said, and his voice had gotten impossibly colder. “You better figure out what team you’re playing for, Jeff, and quick.  We’ll kill them when we find them and if you’re with them, we’ll kill you, too.” And then the trunk slammed and the door opened, and Aidan was in the driver’s seat.
    He gave me a quick once over before he stuck the keys into the ignition, but he didn’t say a word.  He was pissed.  I knew it, I felt it, but I was pretty sure it wasn’t directed at me.
    “What was that about?” I asked almost cautiously, almost being the key word, because the truth was, I was kind of pissed off myself, and more than a little shaken.
    Aidan started up the car.  “It’s probably nothing,” he said.  “Just more of his games.”
    “ You threw me over your shoulder.”  My voice was a hissed whisper, and I cut him a dirty look, as my face flamed with heat.
    “ I told you to let me handle it,” Aidan said.  He sounded amused.  He looked it, too.  He dropped the emergency brake, shifted into first, feathered the gas, and pulled out of the driveway.
    I huffed , and buckled up.  “You knew I wasn’t going to let you.”
    “Yeah,” he said cheerfully, giving me that crooked grin of his.  “I knew.”
    I didn’t respond to that.  I figured it was best not to engage in this conversation while my blood was still boiling over.

CHAPTER 3
     
     
    ~ JADE ~
     
    Aidan was still grinning when he dropped me off at the pack headquarters, and I had to admit, his grin was contagious.  By the time he’d pulled up in front of the building, the majority of my anger had dissolved into pesky annoyance, although I wasn’t about to tell him that.  No, I wouldn’t tell him, because if I did, I might then have to tell him that he’d been right.  I should have let him handle things with my dad.  And telling him that would have led to an even cockier grin that would have made me feel like even more of a failure than I already did.
    The whole idea of bringing Richard to my dad was to make him uneasy and hopefully that would cause him to slip up somewhere.  It was not to let him know, or give him even the slightest hint, that we were on to him.
    But, of course, I let my emotions get the better of me.  Damn, I might as well have told my dad that we knew everything.  I’d clearly let him know that I didn’t believe a word he said.
    Yeah, I really should have listened to my mate and kept my mouth shut.
    Since Aidan left, I’d been telling time by phone calls.  They were becoming predictable.  Every five minutes my father would call.  I hadn’t answered a single one of his calls and I had no plans to do it anytime soon.
    I sat outside on a picnic table, shivering, with my phone clutched in my hands.  The wind was brutal, cold and blowing hard enough to rock me, as it came barreling through the trees.  Branches creaked and the tops of the pines bowed under its furious attack.  The sky was filling up with dirty, dark gray clouds and the air