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- Chase Emma 2016 Legal Briefs 02. Skazanie
- Wrota 2 Milena Wojtowicz
- Christie Agatha Spotkanie w Bagdadzie
- Gordon Dickson Childe 08 The Chantry Guild
- Alan Dean Foster The Metrognome And Other Stories
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surgery, but I have raised four boys." Everyone turned to look at her. "I remember this once Adam and
Aiden were assembling an intricate battle scene puzzle, but they couldn't make anything fit. They
argued for hours; it was nerve wracking."
Aiden blushed. "That's a nice story, Mother; what was your point?"
Adelaide looked at Aiden then over to Adam and sighed. "I really thought I taught you better
than that. Do you remember why you had such a hard time putting the puzzle together?" she asked,
raising an eyebrow.
Adam glared at Ben. "It was because Ben dumped his puzzle in with ours in a rush to go out
and play."
Meryn gasped. "Adelaide you're a genius."
Rheia chuckled. "Good one, Lady McKenzie."
The men all stared at each other with blank expressions.
Adelaide smiled at Rheia. "Please dear, call me Adelaide, I practically helped raise Colton,
he's family."
Aiden leaned down next to Meryn. "What?" he whispered.
Meryn rolled her eyes. "We've all been assuming that everything is connected. That the that the
ferals who went after Rheia and the ones who stole the body are connected, what if they aren't? What
if the puzzle pieces aren't fitting together because there are two separate puzzles?"
Aiden stood and smiled at the unit members. "Our women are amazing."
Gavriel and Colton nodded in agreement.
Rheia sat down on the arm of one of the chairs. "So back to the initial attack, why would they
go after Penny?"
Mina waved her hand in the air. "Maybe for the same reason they went after my Elena,
because Penny is half chameleon."
Meryn and Beth exchanged dubious looks. "Mina, I don't think that's the reason why."
Mina looked around. "Why else would she be attacked? Chameleon's are extremely rare.
Some shifters hope their children mate with us so that their grandchildren and their bloodline gain our
abilities."
Meryn held up her hands forming a 'T'. "Okay, timeout. What do you mean Penny is only half
chameleon?"
Rheia stared at Mina. She was wondering the same thing, she had always assumed she was
chameleon like her mother.
Mina blinked. "Didn't I tell you? Elena was pregnant when she left Lycaonia. Penny is the
child she had with her wolf boyfriend."
"No wonder she was able to get past the units during the training drill," Colton said looking a
bit shell shocked.
Meryn's head whipped back to Mina. "When you say chameleons are rare, how rare?"
Mina sighed. "We're almost extinct. That's why we pushed Elena to try and find a mate among
other chameleon families. How ironic that she did exactly what we wanted in the end. Since her mate
ended up being a chameleon, their baby, had they lived would have been the first pure blooded
chameleon shifter born in a decade."
Meryn let the legal pad drop and scrambled for her laptop. "No, no, no, no, oh no," Meryn
muttered under her breath as her computer booted up.
Rheia stood. "What did you figure out?"
Meryn tapped away and then the color began to drain out of her face. She swayed a bit in her
chair. Ryuu and Aiden were instantly at her side. "Meryn, what?" Aiden demanded.
Meryn shook her head as if trying to erase what she'd seen. "After breakfast, while you guys
had your showdown at the clinic I ran a wider search. All of the US, going back twenty years, you
know, a huge sample, just in case." She swallowed hard. "I know why chameleons are so rare.
They've slowly been hunted to extinction." She flipped her laptop around to show a map of the US.
Red dots were scattered everywhere. "Over eighty-five percent of all reported paranormal murders in
the past twenty years have been chameleons." Meryn began to shake so hard Rheia thought she was
going to hurt herself. Suddenly, she stood. "Excuse me." Covering her mouth she ran from the room.
Rheia stood and darted out right behind her.
Sure enough she headed straight for the bathroom. Rheia held her hair back as Meryn threw up
her breakfast. She rubbed her back and wet a washcloth to lay across the back of her neck.
"I'm okay," Meryn whispered.
"Of course you are, you're doing beautifully," Rheia said removing the washcloth. "Feel like
heading back?"
Meryn shook her head. "Not really, I bet Aiden's lost his shit. I really don't want to deal with
him right now."
"I have my son under control Meryn, you can come out," Adelaide's amused voice said from
the other side of the door.
Grinning at each other Rheia helped Meryn to stand and they walked out.
Meryn turned to Adelaide. "How is he?"
"I made him sit on his hands in a chair. He'll be fine once he sees you up and around."
Adelaide wrapped an arm around Meryn and led them back to the family room.
When they entered Aiden went to stand but Byron cleared his throat. Meryn took pity on her
mate and went directly to him. He pulled her into his lap and it looked like he wasn't letting go.
Rheia turned to Beth. "Have they figured it out yet?"
Beth shook her head. "Not unless they're keeping it to themselves."
Colton turned to her. "Please, oh wise women, show us the light."
"Goofball," Rheia said, and nudged him gently in the ribs.
Meryn leaned back against Aiden's chest and closed her eyes. "It means that ferals have been
systematically collecting chameleons, for whatever reason, for the past twenty years. It means that
they are larger and more organized than we ever feared."
Her words silenced the room.
Adelaide sipped her tea. "And that's just one puzzle. What about the other one?"
Rheia turned and looked at Adam who was trying to get comfortable on the sofa. "Adam had
the body for weeks before I showed up. I removed the necklace and it went from solid state to liquid
state in the matter of moments. But the ferals didn't know Adam had the body until he contacted the
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