Kiss of Midnight_ A Midnight Breed Novel - Lara Adrian [900]
Maybe she could invite Jenna over.
Better yet, maybe she could go to her house instead. God knew, she could use the distraction of some company while her heart was caught in a vise, waiting for word from Kade, letting her know that he was all right.
Ordinarily, she might have just hopped on her snowmachine and rode over unannounced, but this was the one time of the year that Jenna appreciated her privacy—demanded it, even. The November anniversary of Mitch and Libby’s deaths had always been a struggle for her friend, and it hurt Alex to think that Jenna preferred to suffer it out alone rather than lean on her for support during the difficult time.
It also bothered Alex that she hadn’t heard a word from Jenna since she had seen her last.
Going more than a day or two without at least a phone call or quick drop-in was unusual for Jenna, no matter what time of the year it was.
Alex picked up her phone to call her and noticed that the message symbol was lit up. Probably Jenna, Alex thought with a relieved laugh under her breath. She’d probably left a voicemail asking Alex why she hadn’t called or come around herself. Alex punched in her access code and waited for the message to play.
It wasn’t Jenna. One of the clients on her supply route, a new mother with a sick baby and a husband gone some six months doing work on the pipeline, wanted to know if Alex could possibly bring out some formula and more fuel for the cabin’s generator. She was just about out of both, and worried that the coming snowstorm would only make things worse. The call had come in yesterday morning. More than twenty-four hours ago.
“Dammit,” Alex whispered.
The woman’s cabin was only about ten miles out of town, but the thought of venturing outside Harmony before daylight, especially with the knowledge of the savage creature that likely lurked in the darkness, gave Alex more than a moment’s pause.
Then again, could she really sit back in her house and leave everyone else to their own devices simply because she was afraid? Hadn’t she just told Kade that she was through with hiding and running, cowering in the corner from the evil she had always known existed but had been too cowardly to face?
She had meant it.
Kade had given her the strength to face her fears.
And the fact that he was out there somewhere, right now, fighting for her—for all of mankind and Breed alike—gave Alex an even greater, renewed sense of power. Noble, courageous Kade was her man, her mate. He loved her. With that knowledge buoying her, there was nothing she needed to fear anymore.
“Come on, Luna.” Alex gestured for the wolf dog to follow her as she headed for the kitchen and grabbed her parka off the hook. She stomped into her boots, then grabbed the key to her snowmachine. “Let’s go for a ride, girl.”
And on the way back from her delivery, she would swing by Jenna’s place just to make sure everything was all right with her, too.
“We counted seven Minions patrolling the areas south and west of the site,” Kade said as he and Brock came back from a quick reconnaissance of the mining company. “From what we could see, every one of them is armed with semiauto assault rifles and wired with comm devices. No outward sign of the Gen One assassin or Dragos’s man, so odds are they’re holed up inside somewhere.”
As Tegan gave a nod in acknowledgment, Chase walked up with his report from the other side of their operation’s target. “Four Minion guards at the gate out front, and a couple more staking out the eastern stretch of the perimeter fence. I’m guessing that’s not the extent of them. We’re going to find more of the bastards once we get inside. Only question is, how many more.”
“No matter.” Hunter’s deep voice held no inflection, only cold assessment. “Minions have inferior, human reflexes. Regardless of their numbers or their weaponry, it is doubtful they can disable us all. They will pose only a temporary obstacle