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years ago, but decided getting Kaya to agree to help them was more important right now. “It’s been nearly four days since the attack, and no one’s shown any symptoms, not even Kian, who was bitten several times by the infected wolves.”
    “That’s all well and good, but what about you and your people? Or even the bag you brought the dead shifter in?”
    Sy was starting to understand just how little she viewed his intelligence these days. “I may be many things, but I’m not an idiot. My people and I were tested thoroughly, but nothing showed up. Also, the FierceRiver tigers in India designed the bag we brought with us. Not even the Ebola virus could escape once that thing is sealed up. As an added precaution, the outside of the bag was thoroughly disinfected before we left home.”
    The FierceRiver tigers rivaled GreyFire’s skills in medical science. He knew Kaya would trust the bag to do its job, but would she trust him and his clan? As one of Kian’s inner circle of guardians, it was his job to oversee anything his brother couldn’t do himself. It was the only reason he’d agreed to step foot on GreyFire’s land.
    He’d tried to warn his brother about Kaya hating him. He just hoped his brother had been right about how Kaya would take care of her clan and not focus on what had happened between them in the past.
    Deep down, however, he was a little disappointed he couldn’t be doing this in person. He was curious to see what an older version of Kaya Alexie looked like.
    Since she still hadn’t answered him, he said, “Well? Are you going to help us or not?”
    After another second, she growled into the line, and he nearly smiled. “I had put you on mute to discuss things with my second-in-command. Unlike you, some of us like to think things through first.”
    She was referring to him leaving her, but he wasn’t rising to the bait this time. “So, what did you come up with?”
    “You’re going to stay there with Jonathan until a biohazard team can retrieve the wolf. Then you’re going to leave and wait for my call.”
    “I’m not going home until I know the results.”
    “Sy, you staying on my land isn’t going to accomplish anything. Go home. I’ll call Kian when I have something to report.”
    There was a reason his brother had made him promise to stay until they knew the results. Their truce with the wolves was tentative at best, and while he wanted to believe Kaya ran things differently, the previous GreyFire leader had kept important information from DarkStalker in the past.
    On one occasion, when a group of illegal human poachers had come to the area, that lack of information had ended up taking the life of a mother cougar-shifter and her two cubs.
    He quickly assessed the situation and decided there was only one way to ensure he stayed on GreyFire’s land. Sy shifted his weight and lowered the phone before spinning around and landing an uppercut to Jonathan’s jaw. Thanks to Sy’s faster feline reflexes, the wolf didn’t have time to brace himself and the punch landed clean. Jonathan fell to the ground unconscious.
    His two clan members merely stared at him in curiosity, knowing he only would have punched out the wolf with a good reason. Sy put the phone back to his ear to hear Kaya saying, “Sy? What’s going on? Sylas? Are you there?”
    He flexed his hand and said, “I just punched out your sentry, so now you’re going to have to detain me. I’ll be waiting.”
    With that, he clicked off the phone and went to work on securing the wolf’s hands behind him. He couldn’t let the sentry escape before he was sure he and his two clan members could stay.
     

 
     
    Chapter Three
     
     
     
    Two days later, as the last GreyFire researcher left her office, Kaya let out a sigh of relief. Whatever had affected the dead wolf-shifter was no longer contagious, at least as long as no one came into contact with the dead wolf’s stool. And since everything related to that wolf-shifter was