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"Elise?"

"M to suppress

"I never heard about aThat’s what he does"

And speaking of Edward -

I brushed past Nic to get to the phone in the hall This time when I dialed Edward, he answered

"Where are you?" I de care of business"

"Have someone else shoot the care of actual business, Elise We have no coer-Suchers froat headquarters

They are quite panicked"

"Nice to be loved"

"I do not think it is your absence that has upset them, but rather the loss of what is faht have blown

I was sootten anization queen

I collected the reports, kept track of the agents, their assignet reat sex - or had that been a little sex and a great big explosion?

I glanced at Nic as he came into the hall His hair was stilla five o’clock shadoanted to feel the scrape of his whiskers on the inside ofmy teeth, I turned away from temptation Why didn’t theback to Fairhaven?" I demanded of Edward

"You are still there?"

I’d forgotten; he didn’t know, so I filled him in

"Ghost wolves," Edward "

"A, isn’t it?"

My sarcaso to the junkyard? I would never leave so so important to be easily found"

"Ever heard of hiding in plain sight?"

"That would not be hiding"

I sighed Why did I even bother?

"You will have to deal with things as best you can Everyone else is busy Has the FBI left?"

"Not hardly He’s on the case"

Nic snorted from behind me I didn’t turn around

"You have told him all of your secrets?" he demanded

"Some"

"Have you no brains?"

" You’re the one who started it, sir"

Edent silent He did that a lot when I was right

"I cannot return to Fairhaven just yet," he continued "There is soain?"

Most of the monsters who’d ot around They’d been sending assassins after hier-Suchers after them

I wasn’t sure if Edward lived a char as he claiht it was both

"I need that research"

"Would you likein a Federal Express packet?"

"No!" I shouted

Anyone could grab it then

"That is what I thought" Edward sounded s with you?"

"Your formulas and serums could not be safer"

Unless whoever was chasing hiht as well eat a silver bullet, before I started eating h the citizens

"I will be back before the full moon"

"You swear?"

"Have I ever broken a promise, Elise?"

As far as I knew, he’d neverup I couldn’t recall the ood-bye, or hello for that er in the hall I followed the sound of tapping into the kitchen and discovered him hunched over a laptop He still wore only his underwear Was he trying to kill et that?" My voice was more shrill than I would have liked

Nic didn’t seem to notice He didn’t even look up when he answered "I think it’s Jessie’s I doubt Will’s capable of leaving a cohost wolves"

Why hadn’t I thought of that?

My gaze dipped to the flat, brown circle of his nipples surrounded by soft, curling dark hair

Why did I continue to ask such stupid questions?

I listened to Nic tap on the keys, as I shifted my eyes to the wall and runted "There’s an Ojibwe legend about ghost wolves They’re called ’witchie wolves’"

"Ojibwe," I reed, before he continued to read "Witchie wolves are said to protect an ancient burial ground on the eastern shore of Lake Huron I wonder if they can exist anywhere else"

He typed in a few more commands, then squinted at the screen "Huh"

"Letto this, witchie wolves can be raised to protect the resting place of any ancient warrior against those who desecrate it"

He lifted his gaze Together we muttered, "Grave desecrations"

"Let’s see if there’s an ancient warrior buried in Fairhaven," Nic h I kind of think that there is"

I ain I caught the scent of his hair, my arm bumped the bare skin of his back He jumped, but he didn’t jerk away, so I stayed where I was, pretending to watch the computer screen when all I could see was hi anything," he said

"With Indian records that doesn’t mean much A lot of their history is oral"

He shotin htened so I was no longer pressed against his back, and coughed

"We need to talk to a townsperson, an elder Probably Lydia"

Nic looked at the clock "Two in the ht now"

"The doctor never got back to us about the second murder"

I didn’t like that at all

"Never heard fro to think he’s avoiding us"

"I guess we can ask about stray Ojibarrior graves in the "

"True"

Silence settled over the roo hu else?" I flicked a finger at the computer

"Huh?"

Nic’s eyes were on ainst the thin material of my shirt, as usual I really needed to buy a bra

"More info?" I waved in front of his face

"Oh" Nic cracked his knuckles "Let’s see"

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