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moved. The other was either unconscious, or he was dead.
    The wolf who
moved rolled over and morphed into the form of the second man. As he tried to
sit up, Aiden crouched behind him and put the stick underneath his throat.
    “Tell me who
it was.”
    “I don’t
know,” the man rasped.
    “This is your
last chance.”
    “I … There
was someone at the wedding. That’s all I know.”
    “At the
wedding? What are you talking about?”
    “They’re
working for the General. They were waiting for you to show up there. But I
don’t know who it was. Only the General does.”
    “Does she
know where you are now?”
    The man
nodded.
    “What is your
window of report?”
    “You have
about thirty minutes.”
    Aiden gritted
his teeth together and then let the man fall back to the ground.
    He stared up
at the window where I was watching.
    I quickly
backed away.
    Before I
could get anywhere near the lounge again, the front door was open and he was
trudging up the stairs.
    He saw me
there. Trembling.
    “Come on,” he
said. “We have to go now.”
    “Where’s the
bear?” I asked.
    He walked
across the carpet and stooped to picked up the fallen pistol. He tucked it in
his pocket.
    “Did you hear
me?” I demanded. “Where’s the fucking bear?”
    “Where do you
think?” Aiden shouted back, tears in his eyes. “I’m the bear, you idiot. I’m
the Goddamn bear.”

 
    CHAPTER
FOURTEEN
     
     
    I nodded even though I didn’t really
get what he was saying. What I’d seen didn’t make sense. How could it? Then
again, I guess I wasn’t one to say I knew everything about the world. I just
didn’t think something like this was possible.
    “You can’t
tell anyone,” Aiden said. “Not Mom or Dad. Not Lara. Nobody.”
    “Well, aren’t
you going to tell them?” I replied.
    “No!” Aiden
shouted. “No one can know about this!”
    I took a step
towards him. “How did it happen?”
    “Does it
matter?” he shot back. “You weren’t there. None of you were there.”
    “Was it …
something to do with military school?”
    Aiden
sniggered. “You still think I went to military school? After all these years
they never told you the truth…”
    “What truth?”
    “It was a
research lab. They wanted to find out what was wrong with me. Except there
wasn’t anything wrong – I was just fucked up because I didn’t have my real
father to look out for me anymore. You must know what that’s like at least. To
lose a parent.”
    I nodded. “Go
on. What else happened?”
    “For the
first six months, it was fine. But then there was a personnel change. People
from the government came in. And they started doing experiments…”
    I took
another step towards him. The blue eyes of the bear inside him flashed out at
me.
    “Do you know
why they’re after you?”
    “Why do you
think? No one wants their secrets getting out.”
    I was
standing right in front of him now. I reached out and touched his chest. “Why
did they do it to you? What are you for?”
    “I’m a new
kind of soldier,” Aiden whispered. “But I don’t want to fight his war.”
    His eyes
lowered. Looking down at me.
    “I’ll never
see you again after tonight,” he said.
    “Never?”
    “Ever.”
    He suddenly
grabbed a hold of me and pulled me into his body. Every fiber of my being was
stunned, but in retrospect I should have seen it coming.
    This was
something that was always coming.
    His firm
hands found my backside and he squeezed my buttocks gently.
    My lips
parted, about to say something, but he shook his head at me.
    No.
    No words will
do.
    He pulled my
dress up from underneath me, all the way over and off my head. A spine-tingling
rush surged through my veins, and then he placed his left hand to my throat,
and his right through my hair.
    I let my
eyelids close.
    I felt him
pulling me upward. All the way to his mouth.
    Then he
pressed down.
    And we
kissed.

 
    CHAPTER
FIFTEEN
     
     
    Ooh…
    This isn’t
right. This can’t be good.
    What am