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harm you.”
    “He just put the hurt on, Renee,” Derek called back.
    “Derek,” I said gruffly and shook my head.
    I think we all took a few steps back the closer they got. I even noticed Tanda grabbing the back of Derek’s shirt, and him reaching back and holding her arm. I was witnessing the very cure that would bring a peace back into my boy’s heart, but that thought was soon taken away when Jacob took a hold of my arm.
    “What did you do?”
    “He was beating her,” I said the best I could, pushing my chest into his.
    “It is not your concern,” he said, pushing right back.
    “I told you, Jacob. If I see it I make it my concern, so back the hell off.” Then I pushed my hand on his chest, bent down and coughed so hard I thought my insides would end up on the outside.
    The girl creature stood and shook herself and as she did her leather wings wrapped around her back, tucking them in, looking much like a shawl that was hooked on her shoulders, then she squatted back down on the ground. I started to go to her, but Jacob grabbed my upper arm with more force than he should have used, so I used one of the moves that he himself taught me and laid him on his back. I took one step and ended up face first on the ground next to him.
    “Never underestimate your opponent, Renee,” Jacob said moving his hand away from my wrist.
    “I’m not going to let this go on, so stand with them or step aside, Jacob. You’re about to learn all about my temper.” Then I began pushing myself up off the ground.
    “Learn your temper? Are you making another joke?” he asked then pulled my leg so hard that I hit my chin of the rough earth.
    I rolled over, pulled my leg back with every intention of planting it right in his face. My chin was dripping blood and so was his, but he had my foot before I could blink and had me twisted over on my stomach within a second. My foot was now pressed firmly up next to my butt, and he was leaning down close enough to my ear that I could feel his breath on my cheek.
    “If you make the wrong move it will go very badly for you and your little ones,” he said through clenched teeth. “Is that what you really want?”
    “If it means stopping the ill treatment of one—yes!” Then I tried my best to wiggle out from under him.
    “You stubborn, foolish woman,” he growled standing up, leaving me with my foot twisted around.
    I rolled over and untangled myself and sat up. I looked around and every creature and my kind alike were looking down at me like I had lost my mind. I was about to get up when a humpbacked, short female came walking up to me. She reached out her claw- like hand and I took it and stood. She turned her head from side to side and began pulling me toward the young female creature on the chain. I looked back at Jacob, who was surrounded by the others. He gave me nothing, so I turned back and looked down at the female that held my hand.
    “My daughter,” she said in the same slurred speech as the other.
    “She’s beautiful. I just didn’t want him to beat her anymore,” I replied getting down to her level.
    “You take away.”
    “Gabriel!” one male being said coming down to us. “She not want her.”
    “I do. I’ll take her with me,” I responded without thinking.
    “Not good.”
    “I don’t care, sir,” I said dropping to my knees. “I will teach her. Please, I will be good to her, as if she was my own.”
    “Me Lord. Her no have life here. Beat cause not like us’s. Me love much. You father, heart her too?”
    “You master now of Jacob?” he asked leaning his head to the side.
    I looked back at Jacob who nodded once. “I am.”
    “Then you give favor, I give you back. Once take, no return,” he said then put out a claw much like the females, which I took without hesitation.
    “Deal.”
    “You not so pretty, but good master to friend.”
    “Thank you, and I would never think to compare to the beauty of this woman,” I replied putting my hand on