Revenge of the Cat Men: A Shifter Romance (The Pride Book 1) (4 page)

Together they reached orgasm, their bodies locked together by claws and blood, sex and life.  Alison's body convulsed and she began to make a deep growl of her own, animalistic in her passion.  William was breathing so heavy that drips of saliva formed on his sharp teeth.  He drove his cock as deep as possible into Alison and held it there as he came.  He tossed his head up and roared, the fur on the back of his body rising.  An explosion of hot wet cum filled Alison and she saw that his lips were pulled back into a cruel, broad grin. 

He reached down to grab Alison by the neck and licked her lips, his rough tongue tracing her face from chin to her nose.  He got up and his now limp cock slid from her as he rose and Alison reached down to touch herself.  She wanted to make sure she wasn't torn.  She felt herself and nothing seemed damaged, but she would be sore as Hell if she lived to see tomorrow.

She eyed the door again.  How could they ever set her free now? 

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G
erald had a decision to make now.  In his original fury he hadn't planned ahead.  He had wanted revenge and he took it, what he saw as a fitting vengeance.  The injustice had been returned to the humans.  He had the feeling that perhaps the woman wasn't as punished as much as he thought she would have been. 

So now, what to do with the kidnapped women?  She had shown that she was not a coward, in fact she had shown that she could have been a member of the pride herself if things had been different.  He couldn't turn her free and he was above murdering a helpless woman.  He needed rest before he decided, his mind was too busy to think straight.  He would rest and confer with William about the best course of action instead of rushing to a decision made out of anger like before. 

As he prepared to tell the pride his immediate plans he saw that the others were all looking away from him and the woman and he followed their gaze.

Samuel stood in the doorway to the main hall, holding his side and watching them.

"What has happened?  I remember I was in a cage, I was captured," he said in an unsteady voice.

"You were captive, but we found you and everything will be all right now," Gerald told him reassuringly.  He came to the kit and put his arms around him to lead in inside the room.  Alison took the opportunity of their distraction to push herself out of the way as much as possible.  She leaned against the crook between a couch and a table.  Trying to draw not attention to herself she pulled her knees to her chest and held them there.

"You rescued me?" Samuel he asked. 

"We did," William told him.

Samuel was lowered by Gerald as gently as he could on one of the soft couches across from where Alison crouched.

"So it is over, we are undone and it is my fault," he sorrowfully said.  His wounds already looked better and his eyes were alert, evidently the drugs were wearing off quickly thanks to his unique metabolism.

"Nonsense, we have always survived and will do so again," Mathew told him.

"We have even started fixing the problem," Jean Luc said and he gestured to where Alison sat.  She quickly looked away and at the floor.

"Who is that?" asked Samuel.

"One of your captors, don't you recognize her?  She was in the building where we found you and had to be a part of it," Gerald said, desperately wanting confirmation that he hadn't made a terrible mistake.

"I never saw a woman, just men in white coats.  I was awake during the day when I was in the human form, I would have noticed her," he explained.

Gerald's heart fell.  It had seemed so simple at the time but now he realized he hadn't known her level of involvement with the capture except that she had been in the same building.  She could have been a janitor or a visitor, he had assumed and now it would cost him.  He turned to her.

"You.  Why were you inside the building when we abducted you?  What is your role?"

Alison knew better than to lie and answered truthfully.

"I worked there, yes.  I was the receptionist.  I worked in the lobby and never went inside.  You had to have a badge to go anywhere and mine only worked for the first floor bathroom."  Gerald's heart fell.  He had made a mistake and now things were worse instead of better. 

"So you did not know what they were doing to Samuel?" he asked her, very quietly.

"I didn’t and I already told you that," she said defiantly.  "I think when they brought him in I saw him, but he was covered and I couldn't be sure what it was."  She looked Samuel in the eyes.

"You have to believe that I am sorry for what they did to you.  If I had known for sure, I would have done something, “she said to the injured kit.

"Then you have nothing to be sorry for," he said and grimaced in pain as he shifted on the couch.

"So what happens to me now? She asked, briefly looking at each of the men who adverted their feline eyes.

There was no answer because Gerald had no idea what to do next.  One way or another, their world was about to change.

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O
n the top floor of the complex a man sat behind a desk.  The desk wasn't anything exorbitant or fancy, it was wood and well organized with a laptop and bins for papers.  The man who sat at the desk was just as nondescript.  He had medium length brown hair and was just over six feet tall.  He wore a dark gray suit with a black shirt and shoes.  Nothing about the man would make anyone think that he was one of the richest men in the world and controlled the most powerful clandestine society in history.

For as long as the Cat Men had existed there were people who studied them.  They kept as secret as their prey, but instead of finding a hole to crawl into the made sure to do their business hiding in plain sight.  These were the men whose research would unlock the next step in human evolution.  With their web of influence they could achieve nearly any goal.

Sebastian Gold was one of those men.

At his desk he looked over the report.  The single most important piece of genetic research he had ever encountered had just been stolen from him.  They still had the samples the had collected but it wasn’t enough.  Scraps of skin and flesh that his scientists had already been testing to see what made it so unique.  It was the loss of the beast that was so critical.  For real research to be done the tests had to be performed during the transition from man to monster.  The severed bits and pieces of it never underwent the change once they had been separated from the host and could not help.  He had to discover the secret of how they became the monsters.

That is what Sebastian wanted above all.  To master and conquer the line between the cat men and himself.  To control the change to the degree that they never could on their own, and to make it possible for himself to join them.  He would take a place not as a just member of the Pride, but as the Alpha, the most powerful. 

The loss of the secretary was regrettable but of no consequence.  She had been picked because she had no real ties to the world and since she had been killed by the creatures there would be nothing to tie her to the complex.  Just another lost soul in the city.

Now with the subject of his tests gone he would need a new avenue to explore.  Sebastian had been so tantalized with the opportunity for real study that he hungered for more right away.  He had been lucky that the trap had worked a few days ago and now decided to take a more proactive role.  He was going to organize a team of men to finally track the cats down and find where they hid, and he was going to start tonight.  He resolved that by the end of the week he would find their den and fill his cages with the cat men.

Moving the papers to his briefcase he opened his computer to start.  Tomorrow was going to be a busy day.

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Excerpt

The dark naked bodies rose from the shadows.  Jenna was too terrified to scream, unable to run, and could only watch in horror as she saw the forms of the demons take shape before her.  Unnoticed, her bouquet fell from her trembling hands to land on the floor at her feet.  Jenna turned back to the minister and saw that he had a perverse grin spreading wide on his face.  His blasphemous ceremony had worked, and the demon horde was becoming incarnate to take their bride.
She had agreed to this, she had said the words “I do” but now everything was becoming too real.
The figures were dark skinned and shaped like hulking human men for the most part.  Their muscles rippled in a grotesque parody of natural life and from their pores a dark smoke emanated to dissipate in the cathedral.  Jenna realized she could smell the soot from where she stood, a heady pollution with the scent of brimstone and fire.  She saw that there were at least twenty of the monsters coming for her, their eyes glowing pale yellow, greedy for her flesh.
Suddenly Jenna found that the fear had flipped a switch inside her and she regained control of herself enough to run.  Spinning as fast as she could she turned to flee, her wedding dress billowing out behind her.  Before she had taken two steps her feet caught and she tumbled to the stone floor of the cathedral.  Glancing over her shoulder she saw the creatures were nearly to her already, their arms reaching for her where she had fell.  
This nightmare was just starting, Jenna knew that her wedding with these demons would be consummated right now.