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stronger of the two. When he called her name, she took her time meeting his gaze as if fighting an internal battle. But she straightened and looked down in proper submission.
    Now that the two pups were settled, he looked at Passen and his assistant who typed notes into the electronic clipboard. When they stopped and Passen dismissed them, Silas glanced at the pups wondering what he was going to do with them now.
    “Tell me about them.” He crossed his arms and waited for the report.
    “Not much to tell, Sir. They haven’t been indoctrinated in any way, no surgeries, no chips, no metal limbs –”
    “And yet they were able to sense me in their minds. She shut down, locked me out.”
    Passen’s mouth opened and then snapped shut as he looked at Sarita with a speculative gleam. “That is definitely unusual. Did you see anyone else in their memories? Or a lab? Or anything that would give us a clue what she’s been through or where she’s been?”
    Silas shook his head. “No, the minx shut it down after I learned her name. Now I wonder if she allowed me to get that far on purpose.”
    “What does that mean?” Cameron asked stepping around the table and standing next to Silas. The three of them looked at Sarita who returned their stare without blinking.
    “ She is trouble ,” Cameron said through their link.
    “ Probably,” Silas agreed. “ But why were they taking these two across pack lands, they had to know you’d catch them.”
    “Which meant you’d see the pups ,” Cameron said. “ Maybe someone wanted you to know about this ability and sent them to you. Kind of a round-a-bout way of doing things, but it’s possible. ”
    “ Yeah, possible .” Silas looked at the boy who sat up and gazed around the room as if memorizing everything. The idea reminded him of Asia when she first came to the compound.
    “How sure are we they are not packing cameras or anything else?” he asked into the silence of the room drawing both pups’ gazes.
    “Security ran them through the standard tests before bringing them in here,” Cameron said. “If they are hiding something, it’s new and we don’t have the equipment to test for it yet.”
    Silas nodded and did his own scan and found nothing. Not a clue to where they were from, or which pack they belonged to. All he had for his trouble were two pups scared of him, which sucked given his position.
    “Feed and clean them up.” Silas turned to leave.
    “With what? We don’t have anything they can wear,” Passen said stating the obvious. The rags the pups wore wouldn’t make it through another wash. Silas closed his eyes and counted to three, he would need to involve his mate, which he should’ve done in the beginning. Especially since he hadn’t gained any information of value.
    “I’ll have some clothes sent down. Keep them contained in this room.”
    Passen frowned. “Locked in this room, Sir?”
    “Do you know where they are from?”
    Passen’s cheeks reddened. “No, Sir, I don’t.”
    “Can you say absolute certainty that these two are clean and present no threat to the compound?”
    Passen lowered his head, cleared his throat and looked aside. “No, Sir, I cannot.”
    Silas nodded. “When you can do those things, they can leave this room.”

Chapter 6
     
    Dressed in jeans, a tee-shirt and sneakers, not Jasmine’s normal attire, but perfect for hanging Christmas decorations, which she had been doing until Silas made an outrageous request for children’s clothes, she moved at a fast clip down the corridor of the lab. Lilly and Danielle were on her heels, both anxious to see the pups locked in the lab.
    “Where are they?” Jasmine asked Dr. Passen who stood in the corridor talking to an assistant.
    He nodded his greetings. “This way.” He turned and headed in the opposite direction of Asia’s’ old room, which surprised her. Jasmine had been under the impression the pups were locked away.
    “They’ve just finished their baths and are