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understanding passed between them, and Alexios knew that he, too, would protect Lucas‟s children with his life.
     
    “Lovely. Really touching. Maybe we can eat chocolate and watch a chick flick next,”
    Christophe said. “Or maybe we can figure out how in the nine hells they knew we were Atlantis Unmasked - Warriors of Poseidon 04
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    here? Whatever else that was, it wasn‟t random. Not only were they here for us but they seemed to be targeting Alexios personally.”
     
    “I also had noticed they were focusing on Alexios,” but I am not a particular fan of romantic comedy films,” Brennan said. “Lucas, did you mention this meeting to anyone else?”
     
    Lucas was already shaking his head. “No. Like I said, I wanted to talk to you about what was going on. Vampires enthralling shifters. Pack acting contrary to our own best interests. Something big is going on—something different. The vamps have found a way to permanently enthrall shifters, Alexios. I don‟t need to tell you what that means for the survival of Pack—not to mention the survival of the humans.”
     
    “Were these members of your pack?” Alexios demanded.
     
    “No. Definitely not. You know we can tell Pack from scent. No way were those from mine. To the best of my knowledge, they weren‟t from anywhere around here.”
     
    “To the best of your knowledge doesn‟t seem to be worth much, no offense,” Christophe sneered. Faint silvery-green power still pulsed at the edges of his fingertips. “It‟s getting harder and harder to tell who‟s on our side these days.”
     
    Lucas growled deep in his throat, more wolf than man. “You keep saying „no offense,‟
    and yet you are most certainly offending me. It occurs to me to ask why you felt the need to kill all four of the remaining attackers. We needed one alive to question. Maybe it‟s an Atlantean who‟s the traitor,” he said, his gaze drilling into Christophe. “ No offense.”
     
    Alexios stepped between them. “All right, already. Let‟s compare the lengths of our dicks later. Right now we need to figure out who is behind this attack, and why.”
     
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    “I would suggest the Primator, Vonos,” Brennan said calmly. Of course, Brennan had been calm for longer than anyone really knew, since something about a Roman senator‟s daughter had gone bad and Poseidon had cursed him never again to feel emotion, forever destroying Brennan‟s life.
     
    Or maybe not. Maybe having no emotions was a better way to live.
     
    Something in his gut twisted at the thought, but he put it, and any thoughts of Grace, back in a box to be dealt with later. Much later.
     
    “Could be Vonos,” Christophe admitted. “But it doesn‟t smell like him. He‟s more about power and efficiency than the usual bad-guy evil bwah-ha-ha crap. He and Mussolini were probably buddies.”
     
    Ever since vampires, shifters, and other supernatural creatures had openly declared themselves to exist around a decade ago, they‟d been rapidly gaining ground in terms of legal rights. The new, all-vampire third house of Congress, the Primus, didn‟t exactly get staffed by election. Vampires didn‟t vote. The vamp who was old enough, powerful enough, and ruthless enough to take it was the one who won the coveted position of Primator, ruler of the Primus. Right now, that meant Vonos.
     
    “Vonos is definitely not on our side, and he‟s bad news. Worse than Barrabas, even,”
    Alexios said. “At least with Barrabas, we could use his hot temper against him. This Vonos is as cold as those ice spears you used, Christophe. Nice job, by the way.”
     
    Christophe‟s grin would have terrified any humans who happened to see it. “Thanks.
    I‟ve been practicing. I would have thought Vonos was too busy with his new job as Primator to be messing with enthralling shifters in Yellowstone.”
     
    “I heard you all had something to do with that. Senator Barnes‟s disappearance, I mean,” Lucas said.
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    “Senator Barnes.” Christophe snorted. “Barrabas, you mean. Damn leech had a lot to answer for.”
     
    “Yeah, that was us,” Alexios said. “Long story. Vonos is the new big bad and apparently he‟s trying to blaze a name for himself as being even more powerful than Barrabas.”
     
    “We need to investigate this further,” Brennan said. “I would suggest we return to