Lora Leigh- Tanner's Scheme

This is the story of Tanner and Scheme. Tanner meets Scheme at a party, she's there looking for Jonas, since he doesn't show up she leaves and goes to a hotel. After a shower she finds that Tanner is there and then someone starts knocking at her door and he goes in the bathroom to hide. She opens the door to let Chaz, her former lover into the room. He says that she messed up and that Cyrus, her father,  knows what she is doing. Chaz moves in to kill her but Tanner kills him instead. He tells Cabal and the other Breeds to do a cleanup and he takes Scheme with him. He takes her to the caves in Sandy Hook where he knows he can keep her safe. Tanner asks her questions why her father killed her child and why he sent his assassin to kill her. Scheme doesn’t want to tell him anything. She is a double agent helping Jonas. She also knows that there is a spy in Sanctuary and she believes it could be Tanner. Scheme is awaken to the dark in the cave and she is having a panic attack. She yells for Tanner to not to do this to her, she is in complete darkness and feels that she is being buried alive again. Tanner comes back to caves and he feels her fear/hurt. He tells her all she had to do was stand up for the lights to come on. She tells him that her father buried her alive and had a recorder tell her how many hours/minutes she had left for air, with a few minutes to spare her father would release her. He punishes her if she messes up by letting a Breed go while she works in the labs. She also tells Tanner he killed the baby because he couldn’t have his daughter have a baby without being married and since Chas was the father he couldn’t let them get married. Scheme explains how Chaz had drugged her so her father could take her to have an abortion and had her fixed so she couldn’t have children. Scheme had loved Chaz and he had betrayed her with this, so she is afraid to trust Tanner even though she cares for him a lot. She has finally figured a way out of the caverns when she has followed Tanner’s footsteps. She is trying to get out to contact Jonas about the information she has. She knows that her father has his men around but she is giving up so she figures she is safe. Tanner realizes that the caves have been breached so he heads back to protect Scheme. He then realizes that she is the one that got out and he follows after her. While Scheme is trying to get to a phone she realizes that she can’t leave Tanner and decides to go back but she runs into Dog. Dog is one of her father’s coyotes. She is afraid because she knows that he will kill her and then Tanner appears and she is very happy. Dog tells Tanner to take her back before someone else decides to come. He is mad because she left but he has not had any signs that she is his mate. So he figures that Scheme is his twin’s mate, so he explains this to Cabal and he said he would be her mate knowing that she is Tanner’s mate but he has to make the animal come out for Tanner to see. So he pushes Scheme into thinking that he would take her. Tanner returns and Cabal backs away so Tanner wouldn’t attack now that he knows that Scheme is his mate. Jonas finds his way into the caves and tells them that they need to get back to Sanctuary. Scheme tells Jonas about Cyrus’s plan to kidnap David. Tanner is mad that she didn’t tell him this information and she explained why she didn’t but that she was going to before they showed up. Tanner and Scheme go to Sanctuary to have a meeting with the Breed council to tell them of her father’s plan and that the spy he has is very close to them because the spy knows about David’s tracking device. When they leave the meeting, Jolian, Tanner’s assistant is looking for notes. Tanner and Cabal suspect that she is the spy but Scheme refuses to believe it. Callan has a party to announce Tanner and Scheme’s engagement. Scheme sees Jolian and wants to help her because she knows that she is hurt. Jolian falls to the floor and Scheme goes to check on her and everything becomes black. She awakens in a Jeep with Tamber, who is a Breed and the spy and she has David as well. Scheme is trying to get her hands out of the knots, David helps her and then he attacks Tamber. The jeep turns over and Tamber is knocked out, so David and Scheme are trying to hurry and get back to Sanctuary. Tanner and the Breeds have let out the lions and are trying to get to Scheme and David. David smells the lions and says that they are close but Tamber comes to and has gun to David. Scheme wants to save David so she tells Tamber to let him go because of the information she has on the first Leo. Tamber lets David go and grabs her and heads to the plane that is coming for them. Scheme refuses to move because she sees the lion and knows that it will kill them. Tanner and the rest of the Breeds catch up and they kill Tamber. Scheme is hurt but she will be fine. It ends with Cyrus being charged and taken to jail.  My Rating: 5 (special thanks to Sandy)