Tane's Mate: A Paranormal Shifter Romance (Shifter's on the Run Book 1) Read Online Free Page B

just kidding, Tane,” Jay shook his head.
    “You listen here.” She pushed herself to stand not sure if her legs would buckle or not. “I’m not yours and you can’t treat me as if I have no say in what happens to me. I’d rather be dead,” she tossed out.
    “The kitten has claws. Good, don’t let Tane get away with it. He’s too accustomed to being in charge as it is,” Dai said with a smile and a wink.
    “I’m serious, Tane.”
    “I know you are, Sweetheart, and I will try to remember it. Now you may want to sit down before you fall dawn.”
    She glowered at him before giving him a grunt and reluctantly sitting. He was right.
    He glanced at her toenails and then gave her a bright smile.
    God save her from alpha males.
    “Leza, I have a problem, and it’s what to do with you. The easy answer continues to plague me. Kill you. Although that would solve my problem, I have noticed you’re not a fan of that solution.”
    He raised his hand when she opened her mouth to speak. Nodding she stayed quiet, and allowed him to work out his inner thoughts.
    “We could keep you here. Something you also don’t seem to be a fan of or we could let you go. The last you like, but only because you really don’t understand the jeopardy that places you in. As well as the jeopardy that places us in when we have to mobilize to rescue you.”
    Tane paced as his eyes swung from the others to Leza then back again.
    “Tell me how you escaped.”
    “They moved me. It was something they never did. I was chained in the car until one day they brought me into a diner and they had to take the chains off of me. I remember sitting there eating, wondering how I could get away. One of my guards went to the rest room the other got a phone call and took it outside. I was sitting there unchained and alone. I ran. Out the back door until I saw a car. I didn’t know if I could still do it but I tried. I hot-wired it, something I learned in my youth, and took off.”
    “So they let you escape.”
    “No! I…yeah I guess they did. That was way too easy. At the time I was so focused on freedom that nothing else registered.”
    “Why did they let you escape, Leza?” Tane drilled her, still pacing the floor.
    “How am I supposed to know?” She shouted the question at him.
    “Think Leza, you’re smart. They don’t pick the unintelligent for change. They can’t handle the animals. I bet you have a high IQ. Why did they let you escape?”
    “They wanted something and they thought I had the best chance of giving it to them.”
    “Perfect. What did they want?”
    She raised her eyes to look at him. “You.”
    “We have a winner. They wanted me so they sent you in. If I didn’t kill you then they would know they were on to something. But how would they know your still alive, Leza?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Tsk, tsk let’s try that again.”
    “They planted something on me in my skin.”
    She jumped up her hands running over her skin as she looked for something out of place.
    “You won’t find it that way.”
    She backed up at the look on Tane’s face.
    “Grab her.”
    Dai caught her on one side, Dev on the other and they dragged her between them following Tane as he opened a door and went down a flight of steps.
    “Stop fighting,” Dai hissed. “It’s not just your life, it’s ours. He won’t hurt you; hasn’t he shown it by keeping you alive?”
    She’d like to believe that but both her and her animal were fighters when it came to their lives and Tane wasn’t looking friendly. The hospital bed with the iron cuffs on them in front of her guaranteed she would fight.
    They wrestled her on the bed and cuffed her before turning on another one of those lights that didn’t give off any illumination.
    “This light,” Tane patted it, “Interrupts any carrier waves that you might be omitting.”
    They were smart. She bet they had lots of devices like that across their home she would never know what they did. Dev set up a