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Dragging his gaze fro, dark-haired woman in a sexy red dress seated alone at a table She looked even glu at a blue drink with a little u up and down the slender stem Misery likes corabbed his whiskey, and sauntered over to the table "Want solanced up at him and stared ide, dark-brown eyes Just stared As if she kneas a wolf under the guise of being human That he had easily had dispatchedher up, but he ave a soft little snort, looked around the joint, saw all the e, and motioned to the seat opposite "Feel free to have a seat"

Another Aht, only she was human

She looked back down at the table, and he realized she was reading a text e on a cell phone She took a deep breath and tucked the phone away in her purse

He sat, accidentally buainst hers because the table was so s to bed the appealing wench When he looked at her, he thought of Shelley, the way she’d eyed hihed--and yet measured him also--for his family’s role in the crofters’ fates

But Shelley was a wolf So they already had a connection of sorts That’s who he craved bedding, da intoand the table’s small"

Big Maybe that hat had bothered her about him as he’d towered over her at first

"Trouble?" he asked, not intending to burden her with his own probleet a plane back to Scotland early the next night, assu then, if he couldn’t find a place to stay He could at least spend the day searching for a way to get to Silverman before then With any luck,and make him pay Then what Duncan wanted to do was drop Silverman in the middle of the ocean to sith the real sharks and see how et that lucky

If he could have the week to wring the ured he’d have a chance He just had to find so a tied "You know the old saying--when it seeood to be true, it probably is?"

"Aye, I can relate to that" He leaned back in his seat and figured he’d tell her some of his own troubles Maybe she knew of a place he could stay off the beaten path "My brother rented a room for me, and when I arrived, I found the place booked Solid For two months"

Her dark brown eyes widened a bit "Hoful"

"Aye I’ve checked at the different hotels, but I keep getting the same response ’Tis the season, you know"

"Oh What will you do?"

"Get a return flight tomorrow if I can’t find a place to stay"

"Oh" She took a sip of her drink "What are you doing here? Just here for a vacation?"

"Aye, a vacation And you?"

"I wasot a rich boss, and my boyfriend can afford to pay forThree times I’ve made this trip to the islands and every time he can’t make it"

Sounded like a brush-off to Duncan

"It’s that bigwig Silverman he works for that’s all the trouble," she added, her eyes narrowed and lips pursed in irritation "He had another job for hiain"

"Silverht, but she looked harder at hier