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The pups started to race towards the sound of Jane’s voice, but at the last moment Fabian appeared in front of them, blocking their paths. “Where do you think you’re going?” He demanded.

The pups looked around in confusion, not sure where the older boy had come from or how he’d found them in the fog. “It’s our parents!” Ryder told him excitedly, trying to run around the shifter so he could find Jane and Ethan.

However Fabian lashed out quick as a snake, snatching up Ryder and Parker and nodding to Sophie, “get the girls.”

“But Fabian, if it’s their pa-” Sophie tried to object.

“As said get them.” He repeated harshly, interrupting her.

Sophie reluctantly took hold of Riley and Paisley, but unlike Fabian she didn’t think to cover their mouths. Riley immediately screamed at the top of her lungs. “

“Shut her up!” Fabian scolded, struggling to subdue the boys. “We can’t afford to lose four earners.” Together they dragged the struggling pups into the sewers, where they knew their scents would be completely obscured by stone, water and decay.

Across the square, Jane and Ethan jerked in shock. “Was that…?” Jane squeaked.

“It sounded like Riley.” Ethan nodded, feeling his heart begin to race with hope and worry at once.

“It came from over there!” Linda pointed in the direction of the scream, and all three adults went racing through the mist. Of course, by the time they reached the point where the pups had been standing – the children were long gone. “Oh Goddess, I can smell them.” Jane whimpered. “Riley! Paisley!

Ryder! Parker!” She shouted their names as she spun around, searching every inch of space within her sight.

Before long Ethan and Linda were yelling too, but they were met only with silence. Little did they know that the pups were fighting to reach them deep beneath their feet, in- a part of the city they didn’t know existed.

“Is everything all right?” A strange voice asked from behind Ethan and Jane. When they turned they found a man and woman in their sixties, wearing wedding rings and simple clothing.

“We’re trying to find our pups.” Jane shared, on the verge of tears. “Have you seen them?” She pulled out her phone and showed a photo to the elderly couple.

glance, eyeing

that she looked like a young man, but she’d

to the wind, Jane ripped off her wig, hat and fake beard. “Yes, I’m sorry, I don’t have time to explain the disguises-

She could see the resemblance between Jane and the girls, but the disguises were too much of an oddity.

Ethan exclaimed, “she has multiple scars, but the biggest is a

relaxed slightly. “We

of the forest onto our farm earlier this week” She sounded as if she disapproved, and a moment later she made it clear this was indeed the case. “1 wouldn’t mind knowing how they ended up all alone in

escaped.” Jane felt as if she was about to pass out, “where are they now, do you still have them? We heard

soon as Mary heard the children were taken against their will, not that Ethan and Jane were simply negligent parents, she softened entirely. “Oh you poor dears. I’m so sorry, they ran away from us

when our backs were turned they caused a distraction and took

she slumped against Ethan.

thing, they knew

authorities.” Thomas explained with a frown. I’m afraid there’s quite a problem with orphaned children here. They probably

they hurt? Frightened?” Ethan

little banged up but they’re a

gently. “They had lots of fun making friends with our llamas and didn’t seem too traumatized, just skittish. Why did you say

same reason we’re in disguise.”

out who their father is,

Ethan, “Are

he understood her desperation. Now it was his turn to make a snap judgment about whether to trust the pair. He’d always believed he was a good judge of character, but Eve’s deception had shaken his confidence slightly. His instincts were now to never offer someone his trust without it being earned. “Let’s just say if King Aimon knew the pups belonged

strange couple. In the end it was the pups who convinced

way we can. The last time we saw the pups

parts of the town forgotten by time. The good news

fretted, her heart going out to any pups forced to endure

shrugged. “The King’s highway is a major transit zone, I don’t think

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