Circe's Recruits 2: Zack and Ace by Marie Harte Page A

a moment of panic. Pearl suspected a traitor, as did Simon.
    For that reason, Pearl kept his secrets hidden and had revised step two of the new Project Dawn’s timetable. The original plan had been to seduce Kelly Malloy and manipulate her away from Circe’s Recruits and Doc -- Dr. Evan Dennis. With worry of a traitor in their midst, Pearl had taken Simon under his wing and confided a few things.
    Kelly Malloy was changing sooner than anticipated. Thanks to the rogue Circ attack in upstate New York, Ace Two Bears had been infected with a drug that, when passed to Malloy, would hasten her change. Apparently, Two Bears had fucked her well, because Malloy was in serious heat. The little slut had taken on Two Bears and English and was due to change any minute.
    The cameras around her property would detect heat signatures and rises in pheromone levels. All Simon had to do was sit and wait, report back to his boss, and follow new orders.

    Easier said than done. He frowned. It had been a week since he’d gotten laid. One thing he could say for the freaks in the basement, they craved sex. He could fuck as many of the females as he liked. So long as he kept them tied down and drugged so they wouldn’t change, he suffered no injuries, just mind-blowing orgasms. Or at least he had, until that bitch took over the test subjects and took away his clearance for the sublevels.
    Sabrina Torrence. Talk about frigid. The only woman he’d met that had the nerve to deny him. As pretty as she was, she’d more likely freeze a man’s dick off than suck him dry when she opened those ripe lips of hers. Even McKinley had waited her out as she’d ripped Simon a new one. As if Simon should consider violating those things in the basement rape.
    They were less than human. Who cared what he did with them? Or had done with them.
    He glared at the monitor in front of him. It showed nothing more than the heat signatures of the people inside the house. All three occupants remained in separate rooms.
    No sex there, and no sex in here. Simon knew he couldn’t let Torrence get away with her superior act. She was no better than him, just another peon in Elliot Pearl’s rise to greatness.
    Except she didn’t yet know her place.
    On her damned knees.
    He knew how Pearl felt about her. He’d heard the man complain to McKinley on more than one occasion. Simon made up his mind. As soon as he finished this job, he planned to show Torrence just where she belonged in the new order at Pearson Labs. Under him. He hadn’t worked his ass off for the last four years to submit to her like some fucking dog. Simon had plans of his own. And he’d be damned if he’d let some geek with glasses, no matter how fine her tits were, get in his way.
    The equipment in the van beeped, alerting him to the rise in temperature of the individuals in the house. Pheromone levels spiked. Finally. Simon called in his status and sat patiently. He’d wait it out and then make his move. He had his own secrets and his own agendas, ones that didn’t include Elliot Pearl, Circe’s Recruits, or Sabrina Torrence.

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    Ace stared at the bedroom door separating him from Zack, who had finally ventured into the hall bathroom for a shower. While Kelly and Caitlyn chatted, he’d wanted nothing more than to confront Zack about his bullshit attitude. But he didn’t. The feelings he had for Zack were too new. He didn’t want to say or do the wrong thing, like it appeared he already had. So he sat on the bed, his head in his hands, wondering where the hell it had all gone wrong.
    He’d finally made his move on Zack. Both times, the man had come hard. Now nothing should have stood in their way when it came to claiming Kelly for their own. Unless Zack had changed his mind about sharing her? Ace’s beast rose in anger. Had Zack pretended to agree to share her in an attempt to lower Ace’s guard?
    If so, Ace had foolishly compromised himself. He’d acted on the burgeoning feelings for his