Lust of the Cat Men: A Shifter Romance (The Pride Book 2) Read Free Page A

Gerald had taken her just now.  He was not ready to challenge Gerald but the feelings he was developing for her could not be denied.  Once she underwent the change he would be forced to make a decision. 
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    S ebastian Gold had had it with the excuses of the trackers he had hired.  For the past week they have tried to find his missing specimen and so far he was still gone.  The hunt had started when, after long preparation, they had finally captured one of the Cat Men.  Before the specimen could even be dissected he had been freed by other members of his feral group.
    Sebastian had nearly unlimited resources at his disposal but he still couldn’t find the creatures he had been hunting for so long.  To have one in his control only to have it torn away was heartbreaking.  He was the head of a shadowy group that had pursued knowledge of the cat men for generations.  It was critical to find them because he knew that their unique genetic makeup would be the most important discovery in the history of mankind, and he would be its creator.
    The man also had another goal that he would never reveal to anyone.  Once he fully understood the biology behind the transformation these men underwent, he would conquer it and make himself one of them.  He would be the most powerful creature on the planet, but only if he could find and study the monsters.
    The phone at his desk rang and he instantly picked it up.  There was only one possible person who could be on the other end of the line.
    “Gold,” he said simply, and waited for the response.
    “We’ve found the den,” the man on the phone said.  It was the one of the trackers Sebastian had hired.  “It is located in the abandoned waterfront district in an abandoned building.  We were able to follow one of them back there without him noticing.”
    “Why was he out of hiding?” Sebastian asked.
    “He appeared to be shopping,” the man on the phone told him.  Sebastian wondered at that.  These beasts typically had no use for the mundane items that you could buy in the store.  It didn’t make any sense.
    “I need more information, shopping for what?” he asked.
    “We didn’t look at receipts, that wasn’t part of the assignment, but I personally saw him buying clothing.  The strange part was it appeared to be for a woman.  We never saw any women.”
    Sebastian didn’t know exactly what to think of that.  The receptionist that they had hired as camouflage for their building had been missing since the attack.  He had assumed she had been murdered by the creatures and had written her off completely.  Now he had to wonder, had she survived and was she with them now?
    “It’s located under the building, it’s subterranean.  The building itself is abandoned, we explored it and found the doorway that led underground.  That’s as far as I was willing to go.”
    “Give me the address of their location,” he demanded of the man.
    “You will get that when we get the money,” he was told and reply.  Sebastian grimaced.  Since he personally had so much wealth he could never spend it all it always amazed him how important it was that other people.  He opened the laptop he kept on his desk and entered his password.  Opening the banking information with just a few clicks $100,000 was transferred to the trackers account.
    “Check your balance,” he told the man.  Several minutes went by as the tracker verify the funds received by him.  Sebastian could hear him typing on a keyboard through the phone.  Once he was satisfied he gave the address.
    “13784 Briere Boulevard,” was all he said and he hung up the phone.  Sebastian would have been outraged at being hung up on had he not had so much to do.  Now is the time to cast the net and pull in his catch.  He had a team of soldiers waiting for this moment and he put his plan into action.  He wanted to make sure that the raid occurred before sunset when the men were most vulnerable. 
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