Chapter 14

• By the time they caught up to the others, Blair had gone through a whole gauntlet of emotions and that alone put him in the mood where he just wanted to kill something. He had had the realization that Kobie could have died in that fall—then what? He didn’t know, but he’d had to reign in his cat as they processed that thought. Next, it was that Daisie could have fallen—he wasn’t sure, but his own feelings on that weren’t much better than the idea of something happening to Kobie. He didn’t know what in hell was going on with his head, but it needed to smarten up. He didn’t have time for all this emotional shit. He had nine other lives to get to safety. This was no time for feeling all this other crap.
• Once assessing that everyone was fine, Kobie chuffed her intentions of leading and took off down the incline. Despite his internal chastising, Blair hung back for a minute and checked that Daisie, was in fact, fine. He even gave Annamarie a quick once over to make sure she was well—unhappy with the state of her boots, but otherwise, she was in good health.
• Turning, he scented the direction Kobie had gone and then took off as soon as he processed another familiar smell. Calum was close by and another jaguar. Even though Calum was his friend, and his cat knew the other man’s the scent still registered as a danger. Someday he’d build up the courage to ask Calum why that was, but for now, he just had to catch up to the crazy fast she-cat. Her speed, along with other aspects he was finding, filled him with pride that she was as incredible as she was.