Rule Breaker (Breeds 20)

Gideon chuckled. “It was a great game we’ve been playing, my friend, and perhaps one day soon, we can sit down and discuss it, but that day is not today.”

“The hell it isn’t,” Jonas retorted furiously.

Rule knew the instant the Bengal decided the discussion was at an end. And exactly how he intended to end it.

“Catch.”

Amber flew from his arms as Gideon jumped through the open balcony doors to the two-man stealth copter that suddenly flew past.

Just that fast he was gone.

Just that fast, both Jonas and Rule missed the tiny child flying through the room as she giggled gleefully.

She wasn’t flung into the wall. She didn’t fall to the floor.

Rule watched in amazement as she was suddenly suspended from the ceiling, the nearly invisible lines holding her aloft a familiar sensation for the child, if he wasn’t mistaken.

“How?” Jonas whispered as both he and Rachel watched as their child bounced happily in the air. “How the hell did he pull this off?”

Rule looked from the baby, to Jonas, then back again.

He cleared his throat.

“Do you think he’s related to Dane?” he asked then, knowing Jonas wouldn’t miss the backhanded insult.

Was the director related to Gideon?

Hell, Rule was beginning think Jonas and Gideon didn’t share just genetics, but parents if it weren’t for the fact that he was a Bengal rather than a Lion.

The growl that left Jonas’s throat had him wincing.

“Maybe not,” Rule lied, though he was now convinced it was highly likely.

CHAPTER 29

Gypsy knew the second the Dragoon had increased speed and begun racing for the hotel that something was wrong. No more than a heartbeat later she felt something shift inside her own senses. A door opening so swiftly inside her that she had no idea how to close it or what to do with it.

“Go with it, Gypsy,” Lawe suddenly ordered as the Dragoon roared along the highway. “Rule’s in trouble.”

Rule was in trouble?

In danger?

She focused on that link, ignoring the doorway that had opened into Lawe’s senses and concentrating totally on Rule’s instead.

What was she supposed to do? How was she supposed to do it?

Centering her attention on him, she remembered how he said he could borrow from Lawe’s strength, but was he trying to borrow from her?

It sure as hell wasn’t her patience because she was going to kick his ass for making her wait to find out what was going on.

Eyes closed, she felt a glimmer of amusement touch her mind as Rule became so firmly entrenched inside her soul that she swore she could feel steel bolts anchoring him to her.

Mental strength, she realized. If he wanted stubbornness, she had that in spades.

Was that a chuckle echoing through her head without sound? Oh God, she was so going to kill him for this.

“Interesting.” She heard the voice, felt Gideon’s name whisper through her mind. A second later she knew what was going on and felt her heart nearly stop in dread at the knowledge that the insanity Rule had described as Gideon held Rachel’s baby in his arms.