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When the Internet access popped up on her laptop, she searched her e the

Just an email from her best friend, Wendy

Hey, letout with that guy I was telling you about I’m not about to stew over Roland TTYL Wendy

She sent an erant money hasn’t been deposited intoHave fun on your date, but don’t fall for the guy! Shel

They always told each other the sa run Changing a human into one of their kind could create a mountain of trouble If he had a family, the problems increased exponentially So a brief acquaintance was fine Anything longer, and it could beco to do anything foolish The last time she’d broken up with a wolf that she’d really cared about, she’d gotten a little wild A olf out of control was dangerous, both to hi to borrow trouble, Shelley intended to unpack her bags and put her clothes away She was excited about studying the plant life here and taking her research back to the university in west Texas for the classes she’d be teaching later next year She could hardly wait to get started in theWhat if she could learn of a plant in the ancient forest that could stabilize a newly turned wolf’s urge to shift during the full moon? Anytime she could visit new locations and search for such a remedy, she e would never know the true interest behind all her research or why she’d become a botanist in the first place

In some folklore, wolfsbane could be used to stop the shift She knew this wasn’t true because she’d tested it on a friend of Wendy’s as a newly turned wolf But only under very controlled circumstances because the plant could kill a wolf or a person or a olf Shelley had alondered if a lupus garou could ingest a different plant that could actually stop the shift or bring it on if the person needed to turn into the wolf and couldn’t otherwise

Wouldn’t that benefit all of her kind?

A car drove by the villa and she thought again of Duncan and his cocky alpha ed her with his gaze, and showed hoas intrigued with her She envisioned what he’d look like fighting in thea clayhter with lesser skills or endurance Hoould he act in his native Scotland? Superior because he was a laird’s brother? Because he lived in a grand castle?

She envisioned Scottish lasses hanging on his every word, hoping for him to act chivalrous with them like he’d done with her She suspected that if any of the wonized him in theand hounding hiraph

He was cute in a dark, sexy way She loved that he’d driven the older couple to their hotel; anything to get the chance to take her to her villa She’d been tickled by his insistence that he was staying at a place near hers, so it would be more convenient for him to drop her off last, and then his admission that he didn’t even knohere his hotel was located Men rarely did that Often they were either boorishly brazen and turned her off, or they were too beta toover the keyboard of her laptop, she did an Internet search for Argent Castle All she found was a s a castle that was not open to the public and a brief news e that it had been the site of a recent movie project But there was no picture--it could be small and of little or no consequence, really--and no website, address, or any other inforet hold of anyone there And the castle was not included ae

Ian MacNeill was laird, and no one else was mentioned Which confirularly open the castle to visitors So why did they agree to do a fil, as Duncan in the movie? He didn’t seeined once he had to fight, he’d gotten into the battle scenes arrior-like enthusiasm Had Ian also been in the film? She doubted it He was the laird and would have been above such a thing

But she’d sure love to see Duncan fighting

Maybe if she played her cards right, she could plan a tour of gardens in Scotland and stay at a real castle--Argent Castle--compliments of Duncan, and then use what she learned about the botanical displays to show off in her college curriculuht exist in Scotland

She shook her head at herself He’d think she was interested in hiht Her mother had alarned her about wolves like him Shelley sensed he had a darker purpose here, and if he could, he’d be wielding a sword, ready to strike down his enemy He was soain at the clock on her co that seven would come in record time