Chapter: 25 Wild minds
(At an animal control shelter a few miles from the reserve in the evening)
Captain Dubois walked down the halls of the building. The day Alex and his son had escaped with his daughter alive, she boarded a plane to Africa to set a trap that would be impossible for Alex to resist. Dubois walked up to a man that stood outside of a large fake jungle cage. "Are le animals ready?" she asked turning to him. "Captain Dubois, we have been limiting the amount of food the animals you imported from Monty Carlo, but I must warn you they low amounts of food have made the animals all extremely aggressive. I would highly advise you not to enter the enclosure." The animal control officer informed her. Dubois walked up to the cage's door and said. "I will take my chances." Dubois then entered the cage closing the door behind her. The second she entered, she began to hear the warning growl of the jaguars and two crossbreeds in the room even thou she couldn't see where they were hiding among the fake trees and shrubs. In her hand she held an Alex the lion stuffed animal from the New York zoo. When Dubois made it to the middle of the room, an adult female jaguar wearing a necklace emerged from a tree and prepared to pounce and attack Dubois. Dubois didn't move a step; instead she threw the stuffed animal to the starving Gia. The second it hit the ground, Gia sank her claws into it and used her sharp teeth to rip the toy to bits. She destroyed the toy in just a few seconds. Dubois was pleased to see the sight. "Good jaguar, when your mate arrives to free you and your family he will be killed by the one he loves. After you rip out you mates throat, I may let you live to be my new pet." Dubois then turned and began to walk calmly to the exit of the cage. Gia soon felt tired from the lack of food and curled up into a ball to sleep. As she closed her eyes, Gia felt tears run down them as she pictured what she was going to do to Alex when if ever would try to rescue her and the others. All that night, Gia had the same repeating nightmare over and over again. A nightmare where she sank her teeth into Alex's flesh, with betrayal in his eyes. She was scared for her mate.
