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Cassie against the wall then checked it as well. No one. Fuck. Where the hell were they?
Moving carefully down the carpeted hall, her senses razor-sharp, she moved for
Merinus room. She was no more than three doors from it when the new scent slammed
into her head. Alien. Foreign. Waiting on them.
She stopped. There were two doors between her and Merinus room and one of
them could possibly be opened just enough to allow anyone hiding in the room to see
her pass by.
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Sherra moved for the door beside her. Turning the knob she eased it open and
pressed Cassie inside before following her. Closing it just as silently, she indicated
silence to the little girl as she moved to the wide window on the other side of the room.
Looking out, she breathed a sigh of relief as she caught sight of two guards moving
along the perimeters of the house grounds. Opening the curtains wide she slowly lifted
the window, praying she wasn t giving her position away to the enemy two doors
down.
She was within a second of gaining their attention when she saw them go down.
First one, then the other. Her eyes widened. No sound was made, but within a second
they had fallen, dead or unconscious, she wasn t certain.
Fuck. Fuck. Looking around frantically she dragged Cassie to the closet on the other
side of the room.
 You stay here. She pushed the tearful child into the small room.  I mean it,
Cassie. No one will know but me where you are hidden. You don t move. Do you hear
me?
She kept her lips at Cassie s ear, her heart breaking as the little girl shook and
shuddered, though she nodded her head quickly.
 Stay, she ordered her again before backing away and closing the door slowly.
Whoever was waiting in the room up the hall had somehow managed to take out
the communications link and/or the communications personnel and was quietly
waiting. For what?
She moved back to the door and opened it slowly, peering down the hall but seeing
nothing that would immediately raise her suspicions. She stepped from the room,
flattening herself against the wall, weapon held ready, watching intently.
A second later Merinus doorknob turned. Aiming her weapon, Sherra watched
coldly as it opened and the other woman stood framed in the doorway, shock widening
her eyes at the gun Sherra had leveled at her. Just as quickly, the door closed, then
locked.
Smart. Sherra smiled with cold determination. At least the other woman was safe.
That was all that mattered. She could almost feel the waves of fury pouring from the
other room now. Whoever was in there had seen Merinus escape back into her room as
well.
A second later three loud reports sounded from Merinus room. The gunshots were
a clear signal to any Breed within hearing distance. The bastard might have taken out
the guards in the house, and those on the grounds, but there was no way he could have
gotten them all.
She heard a curse, soft, filled with menace, and aimed her gun at the approximate
height to severely wound rather than kill. There was only two ways out of that room,
the window or the door. But she wasn t expecting what stepped from the room.
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Roni came first, closely followed by the chauffeur/nurse who had come in with the
Lawrences several days before. There was a smug victorious smile on the man s face as
he held the gun to Roni s temple and kept her carefully in front of him.
 Very lucky, he grunted.  But not quite good enough.
He faced Sherra with malicious contempt.
 So where s the kid? She wasn t in her room or with her guard.
Sherra kept her expression cold and her gun ready.  If I knew, I wouldn t tell you.
His beady eyes glittered with fury.  Drop the gun or I ll kill her.
Sherra shook her head as she allowed a mocking smile to curl her lips.  No way.
And if you kill her, you ll fall in the next second.
He wasn t nervous. He was cold, calculating. He had Roni by the hair, a tenuous
grip at best, his gun at her temple. Sherra s eyes met Roni s. She could see the
resignation in the other woman s eyes. Somehow he had taken out their men. Sherra
wasn t certain how he could have managed to do it, but he had.
 Well, we could consider it a standoff. He smiled slowly, like a viper preparing to
strike.  You think that warning is going to get help here in time? I made sure your boys
were out for several more hours. The best. He grunted sarcastically.  They were easy,
Sherra.
Sherra shrugged lightly.  Seems you forgot about me, though. I m not so easy.
Her gaze met Roni s. The other woman moved her eyes up to indicate the hand
holding her hair, then quickly looked to the floor. God, could she pull it off? She did it
again, frantically. Up, then down. Was she going to drop?
Sherra angled her weapon at Roni s head. If the other woman didn t move fast
enough& She swallowed tightly.
Suddenly, Roni dropped. His gun went off the same second Sherra s did. The bullet
dropped the would-be assassin immediately as she ran to him, kicking the gun aside
before dropping beside Roni.
 Bastard! Roni came up like a demon, lips curled back, fury lighting her eyes as
she kicked the fallen would-be assassin.
Merinus door flew open at the same time feet pounded on the stairs and male
voices began to scream out in fury. It was chaos.
Kane, Callan, Taber, more than a dozen Feline guards and Seth Lawrence rushed
into the hallway.
 Are you happy now, Mr. Lawrence? Sherra snarled in his face as Taber rushed for
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