Chapter 173

"You stole three Americans!" yelled his tribe's alpha.

"We acquired them and left an appropriate bride price," Acat countered.

"You were supposed to raid a village with those dowries, not a campsite," his leader, who doubled as his father, ranted as he paced the clearing set amidst the towering trees, which, according to legend, housed the spirits of his ancestors. "We have rules about not going near foreigners. Do you have any idea of the chaos this is causing? The attention you've brought on us?"

Honestly, once he'd caught her scent, Acat didn't bother to think much of anything other than his need to have her. "I take it it's on the news?"

His father whipped out his satellite phone from the pouch at his waist and thrust it in his face. "All over the place. There's even rumors about the Moon Ghosts being behind the abductions."

Hmm, that explained the twist in his father's loincloth. "Well, we technically are."