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locked up tight in the infectious diseases research wing, her clan was safe. For now.
    Yet there was still the risk of other infected wolves roaming GreyFire’s land, especially since they didn’t yet know what had caused the wolf’s eyes to turn purple or what made them go insane. Her sentries had searched the mountain, but had come up with nothing.
    She needed access to both the location where the attack with the sick wolves had taken place and to the rest of DarkStalker’s land, but the cougars’ leader, Kian, had given her the worst possible answer. He couldn’t spare any of his other clan members right now. If she wanted to investigate the place where the attack had happened and/or visit the remaining purple-eyed wolf on his land, she’d have to ask Sy to guide her.
    Oh, and she could only bring two people from her clan with her.
    She understood Kian’s caution considering the relations between her uncle and DarkStalker’s former leader. They had not been friendly with one another. However, she was determined to work hard to change the old perceptions and to start building trust between them. That way, if something happened again in the future, both of their clans would be prepared.
    In addition, if they were extremely lucky, they might one day get ShadowClaw, the bear-shifter clan in the Cascade Mountains, to trust them both too.
    However, her grand schemes would have to wait. For now, she needed to talk with Sylas.
    She had put off questioning him as long as possible, but with the immediate threat taken care of and Sy and his people deemed “clean” of infection, she had no excuse to avoid talking with him. She was clan leader; her past didn’t matter. Only the future well-being of her clan was important.
    It was time to set things straight.
    Leaving her office, she maneuvered the web of corridors carved out of the stone of the mountain, careful to take a path that would steer clear of Erika or any of Kaya’s other commanders. It’d taken her time to work up her nerve to talk with her ex, and being sidetracked might make her lose it.
    As she moved through the corridors, she ran her hand against the smooth, cool rock that made up most of the walls of her clan’s home. GreyFire hadn’t always lived in rooms carved out of the mountains. At one time, they’d been forced to eke out an existence in the woods.
    But after World War II, each shifter clan had been granted a parcel of land to call home. While their original living spaces had been crude, the advancement of technology now allowed the shifters of the Cascades to power their small subterranean cities inside the mountains via geothermal energy.
    Still, as she finally hit the cool air of late-September, the wolf inside of Kaya wanted to howl at finally being outside.
    All too often, her clan duties kept her cooped up. She itched to shift and go for a run, but that would require shedding her clothes. The last thing she wanted was to be naked when she faced Sy face-to-face for the first time in more than a decade.
    All of a sudden, memories of the final time she’d been naked with Sy, while he’d taken her from behind under the full moon, filled her head. His touch had been warm and rough, his caresses loving. Add that to his hard cock pounding into her and filling her to the point of almost pain, and she couldn’t remember ever screaming as loud as she had when she’d come back then.
    A longing she’d tried to deny, about wanting a male to fuck her because she was a female and not because she was clan leader, rushed forth, but Kaya quickly pushed the feeling aside. Seeing Sy was going to be painful enough; she didn’t need a reminder of how he’d wanted her back when she’d been nothing but a slightly naive young woman.
    Irritated with herself, she picked up her pace. Why the hell was she thinking about sex with Sy in the first place? The man had promised her the world, only to leave her when her uncle, GreyFire’s former clan leader, had