Free Primal Desires by Susan Sizemore Page B

word so far.”
    Eden sighed, in the way of a female missing her bondmate. “I really hate not going along for backup when he’s dealing with scum.”
    â€œI’m sure he wishes you were there, too,” Sid said.
    Laurent was probably the only living Prime who didn’t object to having a mortal female as a fighting partner. Eden and her brother were definitely the black sheep of the Wolf Clan.
    â€œTry checking for temporal connections at the office again,” Sid suggested to Daniel. “You might have more luck without the rest of us around contributing psychic white noise.”
    He nodded and left. This time her cell phone rang before she could read the e-mail. It was Joe.
    â€œStill not a trace of a scent,” he reported.
    â€œCould a vampire be involved?” Sid asked her werewolf partner. “You know how we can mess up your sensing.”
    â€œWhat would a vampire want with a werewolf?”
    What indeed? “I have no idea. But there was a Family Prime at Lady Juanita’s tonight. I’ve got a feeling he’s involved in this somehow.”
    â€œBut what is this?”
    â€œI don’t know. But my senses tell me that there’s somebody out there who wants Cathy for a really evil reason.”
    Joe growled. “You think it’s this vampire?”
    â€œI think he’s involved, but I don’t know why. Not yet.”
    â€œIt’s best to let vampires handle vampires,” Joe said. “Mike and I will keep looking for the werewolf connection.”
    Eden gave Sid a skeptical look when she put the phone down. “I was under the impression you liked this Cage guy.”
    â€œI like his genetic potential,” Sid answered. “That’s not the same thing.”
    Finally, as dawn neared, she started reading Cathy’s e-mail correspondence.

Chapter Fourteen
    T o save the world from Nazi werewolves,” Sofia murmured as she woke up from the long and complicated dream.
    How did the subconscious come up with stuff like that? She chuckled and stretched out along the comfortably warm length of the man in the bed beside her.
    The man in the bed beside her?
    Wait a minute.
    Her head rested on a bare shoulder, and an equally bare arm was wrapped protectively around her. When she opened her eyes she saw Jason Cage, and for a moment joy flooded through her.
    Then she recalled that she’d gone to bed alone and sat bolt upright. “What the hell are you doing here?”
    He opened one eye and grumbled, “Trying to sleep.”
    She didn’t remember him arriving in her room. She knew she hadn’t answered a knock on the door and let him in. Yet, she had the impression of having welcomed him into her…
    Into her what?
    Sofia rubbed her temples. Her mind felt stretched, and different. There was a lot of jumbled-up information swimming around in there and—
    â€œYou’ll have a migraine if you try to make your conscious mind straighten it all out.”
    â€œConfusion seems to be turning into the normal state of things, and I don’t like it,” she told him.
    â€œI don’t blame you. But let it go. Relax.” His deep voice was oh so soothing.
    He sat up and began to knead her tense shoulders with his strong fingers. She couldn’t help but close her eyes and lean back into the pressure.
    â€œWhat am I going to do with you?” she asked. “I didn’t ask you to be here. I don’t know how you got here. I—”
    â€œDon’t want me to be anywhere else,” he finished for her.
    His hands moved down to cup her breasts and her nipples went instantly hard against his palms. As desire pulsed through her, Sofia knew she couldn’t argue with what he’d said.
    Making love made more sense than the sorts of conversations they had, anyway.
    She turned in his arms and drew his mouth down to hers. Her tongue explored and grazed across sharp canines. For a moment she