Flying Fur by Zenina Masters Read Free Book Online

targeting my Council locator and emergency transport implant.”
    “You have an implant.”
    She nodded and smiled brightly. “It comes with the job.”
    “But you don’t do that job anymore.”
    “Would you mind if I did? You seem to have a full life, and I don’t want to interrupt it.”
    He kissed her quickly, stealing the apricot from her lips deftly. “I think I am in the need for a personal assistant and security officer.”
    She giggled. “Let’s get out of this today and I will consider that offer. You might need more help than I can manage.”
    He caressed her cheek. “You manage me just fine.”
     
    Bright lights sprouted around them and the panic room got a lot more crowded. Six hunters oriented themselves and started talking.
    Misty made the sign for silence, and she said, “We are in the panic room; it has to be manually opened and there are three elves and one half-elf on the other side of this wall. Is everyone ready?”
    Jenner nodded and winked at her.
    “Easy, cuz.”
    Samuel spoke, “Is everyone ready?”
    The hunters got into attack formation and crouched down. Samuel unlocked the door and used the wheel to retract the bolts. With a mighty push, it slammed open and the hunters streamed out.
    Fighting and shouting echoed in the bedroom as the surprised elves were taken down and into custody by the hunters. Leda was on the floor with the rest of them.
    She looked to Samuel, “I just wanted you to myself. That was all. Just myself. I would have gotten you free. I just needed a little more time to negotiate with my father. He would have given you up, and we could have resumed your life with me as your partner.”
    Samuel looked at her in shock. “But we couldn’t have kids.”
    Her tone was a desperate whine, “Are they so important?”
    Samuel stared at her. “You don’t know me at all. I made this place for the family I would have, the shifter family. We need a lot of space to grow and shift and play. You knew what I was and you never said a thing.”
    He was having this conversation with her while she was being bound and prepped for transport.
    “We could be so happy. Just you and me.” It was a wail of desperation that made her companions stare at her in shock.
    “And now I will be happy with my mate. I was never your type and you were never mine. There was no chance for us, Leda. No chance at all.”
    Misty watched all of it with a practiced gaze. It was not the first, nor the ninth time, that she had seen elves arrested for preying on shifters. This was the first time that love seemed to be the motivation.
    It was sad and satisfying to see Leda transported away with the others.
     

Chapter Eight
     
     
    Her first night in her new house was spent filling out reports for the Council and giving them a start to the investigation.
    When she was finished with the reports on the emergency laptop that Samuel kept around, she sent them to the Council and headed up to join Samuel in bed.
    The door was bolted, her cell phone was charged and the alarms and phones were back on. The house was a house again and not just a trap.
    Samuel was sitting up in bed and reading, making notes as he went. She laughed lightly and removed her clothing, folding it neatly in a pile before she crawled into bed with her mate.
    He wrapped his arm around her the moment she got close. He kept his gaze on the paperwork while he stroked her shoulder.
    “This is not the day I had anticipated for bringing my mate to my home. I am sorry it didn’t go so well.”
    She chuckled. “We are both alive an uninjured. That counts for a lot in my book.”
    “You are quite right. Thank you.”
    She looked up into his sleepy, sexy gaze. “Why?”
    “You saved me from coming home with another mate and having us both taken. Mind you, I went to the Crossroads to find you, so Leda never had a chance.”
    “A chance?”
    “A chance to take me and my mate and keep control of my company.”
    She thought about it. “If she