{"id":3526,"date":"2009-11-04T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2009-11-04T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:00:32","slug":"30-days-of-giveaways-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2009\/11\/30-days-of-giveaways-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Giveaways…#3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Hunters<\/a>
Hunter's Need...releases 12\/1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He still had scars from those days, days that ran together in a pain-filled, delirious blur.\u00a0 Just a few days, but even a few minutes under those circumstances would be too much.\u00a0 She\u2019d used him, figured out what and who he was and toyed with him, making him believe she wanted him and convincing him to leave the club with her.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d done just that, but instead of taking her to a motel or some dark, quiet apartment where she lived, she\u2019d taken him to hell.\u00a0 To Cat, a feral vampire with a few mental issues.\u00a0 Something about Ana\u2019s gift fucked with his instincts and he\u2019d been blinded to the fact that the house he was following her into the territory of a feral vamp\u2019s.\u00a0 Ferals\u2014the kind of creature that Duke hunted down and killed.<\/p>\n

Blind to everything but Ana, he\u2019d been so caught up in her, in the taste of her mouth, the feel of her body against his, he hadn\u2019t realized the danger until it was too late.\u00a0 He\u2019d been shot with silver and in the brief period he\u2019d been unconscious, somebody had chained him up, bound him head to toe with chains of silver and titanium\u2014the silver drained him, burned him and ate into his flesh, while the titanium was too fucking strong for him to break away.<\/p>\n

And that was how he\u2019d spent the next couple of days, up until help arrived, in the form of Mary Kendall and Duke\u2019s old friend Kane.\u00a0 Somebody from his life before.\u00a0 Life before the Hunters.\u00a0 Life before he\u2019d ever met up with a sad-eyed psychic\u2014a life that had been a helluva a lot easier.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t remember much of the days he spent in captivity, beyond Ana.\u00a0 Almost every damn time he swam up out of the black well of pain and weakness brought on by starvation, she\u2019d been there, urging water past his parched throat, giving him just enough to keep him going.\u00a0 A natural shifter, he ate more, drank more than a mortal.\u00a0 A mortal could go a decent amount of time before starvation left them weak.\u00a0 But for a shifter, a couple of days without food was enough to put him in a bad state.<\/p>\n

For the thousandth\u2014no, probably the millionth time, he found himself wondering why she\u2019d made the pretense of helping him, of caring if he lived or died under Cat\u2019s hand.\u00a0 Found himself wondering why she was here\u2014why she\u2019d come, and why they\u2019d allowed her to stay.<\/p>\n

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Just a quick reminder on the contest:<\/p>\n