Free Commando Cowboys Entice Their Beauty [Wyoming Warriors 6] by Paige Cameron Page B

and houses here in the general area,” Mitch said. “If they don’t pick up anything, we can send them farther out the next day.”
    “What about me?” Jewel asked.
    “Once they find the area, it’ll be your job to find the person or persons. But we will be watching you.” Mitch turned to Jewel’s father. “Have Payton come here this afternoon. You and I will tell him about his sister, and then we’ll have him watching from afar with his high-powered rifle.”
    Mitch glanced at Aleron, Jewel, and Raoul. “If she gets into trouble, he’ll be told to shoot to kill.’
    Jewel feared Payton would be mad and feel betrayed when he heard what she’d kept from him all these years. She didn’t want to lose the relationship they had.
    “Does he have to be told now? Aren’t there other sharpshooters on the ranch?”
    Daren shrugged. “He’ll find out eventually. It’s better if he’s not the last to know.”
    “But I do have a suggestion,” Lann spoke up. “We have a sharpshooter that’s excellent. Perhaps our person might take his place.”
    “No,” Mitch said. “He’s the best.”
    Lann glanced at Garth. Garth spoke up. “Our person is, too. Let’s have a contest at the shooting range inside the gym. We’ll slip in late tonight and lock the doors so no one but our guys will be inside.”
    “Good idea,” Daren said. “This should be interesting. We’ll invite the same group that’s here to be there. A good rivalry will entertain and bring us all more together.”
    “At midnight, then,” Mitch said. “Meanwhile have Cassie and Pruet start working. And, Jewel, this gives you time to tell your brother yourself, after the contest.”
    “Aleron,” Mitch spoke up just as Aleron had stood to leave.
“I want to remind you and your other shape-shifter birds not to fly over three thousand feet or you’ll hit the top of the invisible net. Be careful. See you all tonight.”
     
    * * * *
     
    “What the hell is going on?” Linda asked Nate when he walked into their bedroom at his parents’ house. “Why hasn’t the attack started?”
    “I’m not sure what’s occurred. Our guys tried to fly inside the ranch property from our main hideout and hit an invisible wall.”
    “How many of us are inside?”
    “About four of the bird shifters and us. It was your idea to find a place off the ranch for most of our people to hide,” Nate said. He hated her, and yet he couldn’t pull his mind away from her spell long enough to disobey her orders. She sensed when he was getting stronger and zapped him again. It felt like a hard electrical shock, and for days he forgot who he really was.
    “Are you questioning my orders?” Linda stood close, in his space.
    “Mommy.” Nathaniel ran to his mother and held up his hand. “I hurt my finger.” Linda rearranged her expression and leaned down to kiss the redness.
    “That will make it all well. Go play. Daddy and I have to talk.” Nathaniel ran out of the room.
    If only he’d stayed on the ranch and married Rae. My son would have a warm, loving mother . But it was too late.
    “You’re thinking of her again.” Linda grabbed his head between her hands, and the electricity sizzled in his brain. The pain brought him to his knees, but he didn’t yell out. She kept his mouth jammed shut.
    Nate feared for his parents and his son. He struggled to fight her power. He had to let Mitch or someone know. But she clamped harder, and he passed out.
    When he awoke, he was lying on their bed. Linda leaned over him. She was naked, and her lush breasts and slim body sent heat flowing in his veins.
    “Your parents are getting suspicious. We’ll go out and join them in the kitchen, but first, we will enjoy ourselves in here with the door shut and locked. After we make love, they’ll see our glow and think we’re a happy couple. But the next time I get uneasy about them, they’re going to be tied and locked in a room.”
    Her hand slid down over his shirt and unbuckled his