"What do you mean the expansion is about to fail?!" I hissed at my P.A., feeling my blood boil over as the cold beast that had gone into hibernation since Lily's kisses and touches, burst out. My claws itched to dig into flesh, to tear one bloody chunk after another. The beast was roaring. This couldn't happen! I had invested way too much in this to have it shatter at the last minute. I wasn't that kind of failure. Hell, I wasn't a failure, period! And I should have been on the jet, with Lily in my arms, heading back to Radiant Springs. She'd made one simple request, and I hated that I was about to make her wait. I waved away the nagging feeling that had been prickling at my insides since last night, when she'd expressed her desire to head back home. She wasn't about to change her mind a

