Page 55 of Grizzly Sleuth
His head tilted, and he spotted several soldiers standing on the roof of the lab, weapons aimed.
“Did you really think no one noticed you boarding the chopper?” Levy chuckled. “The soldiers on duty purposely ignored you and notified me immediately. It was so hard to act natural, knowing you hid aboard.”
“I’m surprised you waited this long to act,” he growled in reply. “Why not capture me before we left or seize me the moment we landed?”
“Because I was curious. Did you come here for me and the lab or something else? After having observed you, I know the answer. Just so you know, she’s still over an hour away.”
Idris’ blood chilled. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m here to kill you.”
“Oh, I’m sure you would if given a chance, but I do believe your first priority was to rescue a certain Russian damsel. I can’t say as I blame you. She is quite attractive, and familiar with bears. One might even say intimately.” Levy smirked.
“She’s just an acquaintance.”
“Tell that to the semen sample found in one of the beds at the hotel you were sharing. Delighted to know you’re already carnally acquainted. It will make breeding the pair of you so much easier.”
“Like fuck.” Idris clenched his fist.
“Yes, fuck. And fuck. Until you give me a therianthrope baby.” Levy smirked. “Now say goodnight.”
Idris wanted to run. Scream. Fight.
Instead, he found himself peppered in darts and kissing the ground.
Chapter Sixteen
The doctor couldn’t containhis glee at having caught Svetlana and her brother. It only served to enhance her frustration, an annoyance she couldn’t properly voice, but she could snarl. She’d yet to return to her human shape, and not for lack of trying.
As they journeyed, Yuri had tried to explain how to morph to no avail. Then again, maybe her body rejected the attempt, knowing she’d be cold. Look at Yuri, who’d shivered until he finally swapped into his ursine fur. He only returned to his man shape when they arrived at their destination so he could better curse out Levy.
“You bastard. I’m going to rip out your entrails and slurp them,” Yuri yelled.
The doctor smirked. “The only thing you’ll be eating is slop if you don’t change your attitude.” He then turned to the soldiers milling around the truck. “Let’s get them inside.”
Growling and snapping didn’t stop soldiers from removing the cage holding her from the truck, nor did Yuri’s descriptively violent rant.
A forklift scooped up her prison and carried her inside an ominous structure. A big concrete box with windows covered inbars, which seemed overkill given the narrow aperture that even a child would struggle to pass through. Once she’d been placed on an electric dolly, the gleeful doctor guided it through a locked door—the security screen alongside requiring his face to open—and onto a freight elevator. They went up, not down, a surprise, as she’d expected a lab of evil experimentation to be hidden in the bowels of the Earth.
They exited the elevator to a long hallway lined with metal doors marked with numbers, B1, B2, and so forth.
The doctor halted the dolly in front of B7 and smiled at her. “Welcome to your new home.”
She predictably growled.
“Such a grumpy mood. Perhaps it will improve once you meet your roommate.”
Wait? Would they be rooming her with Yuri? How could that be possible? They’d removed her from the truck first.
The doctor placed his face in front of a screen and tapped its surface quickly. She memorized the code, not that it would do any good since she doubted it would recognize her features.
Click. The portal unlocked and swung open, revealing her prison. The doctor drove the dolly through and had it tilt, sliding her cage to the floor with a thump. But she barely noticed, her gaze riveted by the body lying prone on the bed.
Idris!
So much for hoping he’d come to her rescue. He must have gotten nabbed in the sweep that captured her and Yuri.
“I see you recognize him. Foolish man, thought he could stow aboard my helicopter without notice.”
Well, that explained how he’d gotten here.
