herself against the sofa. “Even if I do, how can I be sure you won’t cast me aside once you have the information you need?”
“I think you’ll help me for the same reasons you didn’t stay at Hathaway Medical. You couldn’t stand to see what they were doing, and you wanted no part in it. If I’m wrong, then I’ve come a long way for nothing and risked our secret further.”
“Even if she doesn’t help us, they’ll find her before they find us.” Blake stood near the fireplace, his arms crossed over his chest. “It won’t be long before they catch her scent again.”
“They, as in shifters? Are the people behind Hathaway Medical actually using shifters to track me?”
“They’re drugged, heavily guarded, and chained, but…yes.”
“He masked your scent from town, but we don’t have long before we need to get a move on if we don’t want them to find you,” Blake growled, deep and throaty. It scared her enough that she reached over to grab the gun, only to have her wrist caught by Patrick’s hand.
“There’s nothing to fear. He’s not going to shift, just once again voicing his displeasure at me.”
“For what?” She glanced between the brothers before finally settling her gaze on Patrick.
“Because we couldn’t rescue the shifters they were using. It would have been too dangerous in town, with the residents around, and we had to get to you before you moved on.” He removed his hand from hers and adjusted in the chair.
“Then we should have killed them,” Blake said. “Death would be better than being on the end of a chain like some fucking search and rescue dog.”
“I have to agree with him.” She nodded toward Blake. “That’s no life, and what’s being done to them at Hathaway Medical is even worse.”
“Sounds like you’ve made your decision.” Dean shook his head. “I risk everything to come to you, and you’re willing to trust someone else.”
“We can help you too, Dean,” Patrick said. “You’re welcome to come with us, but you’re going to have to make a decision soon.”
“I want you to come with me,” Clarissa said. “Please. Take Patrick’s offer. I’m sure whoever’s on our tail knows I have a brother, and they’ll be looking for you.”
“You’re really going to do this?” Dean shook his head. “How do you know they won’t turn on us?”
“Call it intuition. Plus, I want to bring down that lab, and I’ll risk my own life to do it.” She turned to Patrick. “If I help you, can you promise to close the place down, keep others from suffering?”
“You have my word.”
“I’ll blow the building sky high,” Blake agreed.
Consequences be damned, she was going to dive in head first. “Then I’ll help. If we can get to a place with electricity, I can charge up my laptop and that will give you all the information you need.”
“We’re going to need the layout of the building, the guard schedule, that sort of thing, as well as your files. That will help us determine the best course of action to get in and out. We’ll need to go over all of that with Austin.”
“Like I said, everything you need will be on my laptop. I put a virus on their system that will give us complete access. But who’s Austin?”
“The next oldest of the O’Reilly family after me. He’s former military, that’s how he knows Andrew, and he’s the best when it comes to strategy and planning.” He leaned forward. “A computer virus? If it’s not completely untraceable, you’d have risked yourself further.”
“It’s untraceable,” Dean said. “I designed it. The South American government is beginning to think like ours, and they’re planning to open laboratories like we have here. The company I was working for began to take on freelance jobs almost a year ago, and I was sent to Brazil in order to prepare their computer systems. I was given access to the systems here to be sure I understood what was needed. It would seem as though the two
“I think you’ll help me for the same reasons you didn’t stay at Hathaway Medical. You couldn’t stand to see what they were doing, and you wanted no part in it. If I’m wrong, then I’ve come a long way for nothing and risked our secret further.”
“Even if she doesn’t help us, they’ll find her before they find us.” Blake stood near the fireplace, his arms crossed over his chest. “It won’t be long before they catch her scent again.”
“They, as in shifters? Are the people behind Hathaway Medical actually using shifters to track me?”
“They’re drugged, heavily guarded, and chained, but…yes.”
“He masked your scent from town, but we don’t have long before we need to get a move on if we don’t want them to find you,” Blake growled, deep and throaty. It scared her enough that she reached over to grab the gun, only to have her wrist caught by Patrick’s hand.
“There’s nothing to fear. He’s not going to shift, just once again voicing his displeasure at me.”
“For what?” She glanced between the brothers before finally settling her gaze on Patrick.
“Because we couldn’t rescue the shifters they were using. It would have been too dangerous in town, with the residents around, and we had to get to you before you moved on.” He removed his hand from hers and adjusted in the chair.
“Then we should have killed them,” Blake said. “Death would be better than being on the end of a chain like some fucking search and rescue dog.”
“I have to agree with him.” She nodded toward Blake. “That’s no life, and what’s being done to them at Hathaway Medical is even worse.”
“Sounds like you’ve made your decision.” Dean shook his head. “I risk everything to come to you, and you’re willing to trust someone else.”
“We can help you too, Dean,” Patrick said. “You’re welcome to come with us, but you’re going to have to make a decision soon.”
“I want you to come with me,” Clarissa said. “Please. Take Patrick’s offer. I’m sure whoever’s on our tail knows I have a brother, and they’ll be looking for you.”
“You’re really going to do this?” Dean shook his head. “How do you know they won’t turn on us?”
“Call it intuition. Plus, I want to bring down that lab, and I’ll risk my own life to do it.” She turned to Patrick. “If I help you, can you promise to close the place down, keep others from suffering?”
“You have my word.”
“I’ll blow the building sky high,” Blake agreed.
Consequences be damned, she was going to dive in head first. “Then I’ll help. If we can get to a place with electricity, I can charge up my laptop and that will give you all the information you need.”
“We’re going to need the layout of the building, the guard schedule, that sort of thing, as well as your files. That will help us determine the best course of action to get in and out. We’ll need to go over all of that with Austin.”
“Like I said, everything you need will be on my laptop. I put a virus on their system that will give us complete access. But who’s Austin?”
“The next oldest of the O’Reilly family after me. He’s former military, that’s how he knows Andrew, and he’s the best when it comes to strategy and planning.” He leaned forward. “A computer virus? If it’s not completely untraceable, you’d have risked yourself further.”
“It’s untraceable,” Dean said. “I designed it. The South American government is beginning to think like ours, and they’re planning to open laboratories like we have here. The company I was working for began to take on freelance jobs almost a year ago, and I was sent to Brazil in order to prepare their computer systems. I was given access to the systems here to be sure I understood what was needed. It would seem as though the two
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