SS: 'LifeMate' ch-4 pg-15 09/9 - Page 3

He took a bite of the offered fruit, he couldn't help himself. He was smiling down at her, still staring at her breasts when she used the pressure syringe on him, tranquilizing him.

He was heavy but Zoya was strong & she dragged him into the cover of the bushes, sending up a small prayer that no predatory animal would find him defenseless, propped up against a broad tree trunk. She hastily prepared the scene while Humeira penetrated the alaram system.

From her pack, Zoya spilled a small amount of liquor on the guard's clothes, settled the flask in his hands & remove the bullets from his gun, flinging them into the dense undergrowth.

Zoya & Humeira stayed in the shadows, avoiding the open where a camera might pick them up as the hurried through the large building. The first few rooms appeared to be empty offices, but just beyond them, they could hear the uneasy sounds of animals in distress. The labs were fairly large, each holding several cages. The separated, glancing quickly at their watches & blowing a kiss for luck as they took separate sides of the huge building in the hopes of freeing as many animals as possible.

Both had the ability to calm & control even the largest of cats. It was more difficult when the animals had been teased & abused or tortured, but both women were certain of their talents & they moved fast & efficiently, their teamwork well practiced.

Zoya kept an eye on the time as she opened cages & direct animals. The last lab held the biggest animals. A sun bear, a jaguar & a sloth. She cursed under her breathe as she saw that the sloth was beyon all help. The sunbear had several injuries from someone poking it with a sharp instrument, but the jaguar was still in good shape, one of the newest animals the lab had acquired.

She spoke softly, soothing the pacing animal, growling once low in her throat when it leapt at the cage walls in agtation. It took a bit longer to manage the lock & herd him out of the room down toward the entrance, using her telepathic link to guide him. She took 3 steps after the cat when she felt a tremendous draw toward her left. To her dismay there was another door.

The door was heavy, a thick soundproof vault with several bars & locks. Zoya glanced at her watch a 2nd time. She would be running to get out, but something outside herself demanded she investigate. Praying Humeira kept her promise to depart & head home imedietly, Zoya set to work on the door.

ASAD lay on the cement floor in a pool of blood, dispassionately watching as it seeped toward the built-in drain. His blood looked like a thin pale gray trail of liquid pooling in an ever-widening puddle. It was unthinkable that he had been trapped like this, that one of his kind could be shamed & dying at the hands of his enemies. He was an immortal, a carpathian male, no fledgling, but a man of honor & skill. He lay in a pitiful heap, unable to gather the strength needed to move. Unable to summon help from his own kind.

His brothers would be seeking him now, wondering why his mind was closed to them. He dared not draw another into the trap as he had been drawn. He wouldnt be bait to ensure more of his kind. The enemy had found a way to poison the blood of their people, to immobilize them long enough to drain their blood & keep them weak. He had thought he was skilled enough to push the poison from his body. In the past he had done so on numerous occasions, but the new poison held him helpless, week & paralyzed against the continual torture.

There was no way to transmit the news to his prince, no way to warn of this new even more lethal drug their enemies had devised. Asad struggeled into a sitting position until he lay propped against the wall he was chained to, examining the compounds racing trough his system. The had used some sort of electrical charge to stimulate the cell deterionation in his blood. He allowed his breathe to escape in a long, slow hiss of deadly promise of deadly despair.

He wouldnt die easily his body would continually regenerate but widout necessary blood, widout healing earth, it would happen, slowly & painfully. It was the last death he had ever envisioned for himself.

The drug was crawling through his body, a chemical monster nearly as lethal as the dark demon lurking deep widin him. Before he died, he intended to transmit as much info on the poisonous compound as he could to his brothers. He would issue a warning, but he wouldnt do so until his death imminent.

Asad closed his eyes & crawled deep into his mind. Almost at once he heard the soft click at the heavy metal door. Fearing his immense power, his captors never came to him at night. He did a cursory scanning to touch the mind of the human entering the lab, his prison, he couldnt read thoughts. He had the impression of a human female.

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