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Heidi woke the next morning and immediately looked into the cages around her. There was no sign of Yana. Had she dreamed her? She took care of morning business and then spent her time pacing the cage. In the last few days, her life had become an endless cycle of waiting for Diane Crane’s mutated thugs to come collect her for testing.
It had only taken one feeble rebellion attempt against them to learn that bears—even the non-shifting ones—were stronger than wolves.
Her mouth dropped open when the thugs arrived dragging an unconscious woman between them. They tossed her face up onto the cot in the cage immediately next to hers. She stared in fascination at what could easily have passed for a younger version of Katarina.
“Is she okay? What happened to her?” Heidi asked.
They left wit
