Fates Hands novel Chapter 40

Chapter 40

The pack was all settled down now, the party was a huge success. Luna Adira was resting and hanging out with Marnie. Adira telling her all the details of the things that went on while they were at the castle. Marnie was making sure that she took it easy from now on.

Not only had Marnie taken up as Adira’s personal lady guard, also apparently the King sent three personal guards for her and for him. Duncan liked that Adira had extra security but he hated it for himself.

He decided since it was still a little early to sleep, he and Marco would go patroling together along the borders. Of course his three shadows had to tag along as well, one good thing about them is that they stayed out of the way.

Duncan was having a great run with Apollo, it was what they had needed the most. A good run in their own territory. They were heading to the western border when both of their wolves stopped in alert. They could sense that they were not alone and were being watched.

Duncan and Marco shifted back, grabbing shorts from a nearby stash. They stopped and pretended to just talk and catch up with each other all the while moving closer and closer to

other, all the while moving closer and closer to the source of the energy they were feeling.

Duncan mind linked his three shadows to come from different directions to the tree they were standing by.

As the guards approached a very loud snarl could be heard, it was a big werecat. Duncan and Marco looked at each other, Marco started walking around the tree taunting the cat. “Here Kitty, Kitty.” It was working the cat didn’t like taunting. They never did. ?

Just as they thought that they were going to catch themselves a cat, it leaped with an angry growl onto another tree, then another till it was gone. They didn’t bother to give chase, since it was no longer in their territory.

The werecat did expose itself long enough for them to get a good look at it, it was a leopard shifter.

Everyone marked the smell of it’s scent to share with other guards and warriors. They also armed themselves as well. Cat shifters tend to like playing dirty. It’s best to just get them at a distance and kill them. Otherwise you have to change into lycan form.

Either way werecats are pains in the ass.

Duncan didn’t like that this one was so close. Usually they get a drifter now and then. They will stay the night and then move on.

A few of them were really good guys and relayed information on rogues. Some were loners passing through. Once in awhile you get a real asshole and have to put him down.

Duncan mind linked all his warriors, telling them of what they found and that there would be extra training for those who haven’t had to deal with werecats before.

He was going to have to give Jack a call and let him know that they have a stray cat problem.

Val sat in his office listening to his spies, they were not happy to be sent into bear territory. No one is ever happy to go into bear territory, not even other bears.

For now they had been gathering human specimens, they were easy pickings. Humans with special abilities were coveted by his buyers. He wanted the real prize though.

Sir, are you sure you want to do this? These two packs are going to be a lot of trouble if not deadly. The werebear clan we couldn’t even get

far into their territory before a fricken grizzly came out of the bushes to investigate.

The werewolf clan was in some ways worse, his spy there couldn’t get inside the territory at all and was almost captured. Werewolves have one advantage over werecats. Werecats can mask their pressence and their smell. Werewolves have one annoying ability though, they can sense their energy.

Bears can smell them even when they mask their scent. The only way in would have to be a gap in their security, that isn’t going to happen there though, that clan is much too large. They would have to wait and see when they left the safety of their territory, to see if they could ambush them.

As for the werewolves, he was going to have to come up with a really big distraction to deal with them. Dang, he hated this kind of shit. Dealing with weak or corrupted packs were easy pickings, dealing with these two however was going to be a challenge.

He might have to call in some back up on this one. He would rather not because it was less of a pay day for him. However if he was dead he can’t enjoy the money anyway.

Lily couldn’t stop that damn nightmare, it would play over and over everytime she shut her eyes. It was getting frustrating. It was like her mind was trying to find something but couldn’t so it kept playing the same memory over and over till it did

Her therapist was trying to help her figure it all out, they even tried hypnosis, again it was the memory of that moment and those damn golden eyes. She was starting to feel that she was close to figuring it out, it was staying just out of reach.

It slowed things down, no new cases had been reported. That just means that they are laying low waiting for their guards to drop, so they can continue again

Depending on the type of werecats, the females can be more deadly than the males, especially if they have young to protect. Jack had heard stories of one female weretiger that killed a whole group of wereleopards that tried to take her daughter.