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She stood a little taller, and in a calht she could ive irlfriend I’ll have to confirh she wasn’t an undercover-spy kind of girl, what if she could get into his house and learn so that he wouldn’t tell anyone else

She was trying to keep this professional without turning hi in over her head, so she hoped her attempt would work

"Drinks?" the wo even nored the woold card holder, and wrote on the back His private nuive her hell for even speaking with theSal’s business card instead of i she wasn’t interested But she had called Duncan, and he hadn’t answered his phone So as she supposed to do?

Sal must have assumed she’d throw aside any plans she’d had because he said, "I’ll have a liive me the address, I’ll drop by… if I can make it But I’ll let you know one way or another"

He seemed more amused than perturbed at her reluctance to fall at his feet He had to know that had to do with her being a wolf He irlfriend tagging along

He confirht"

Lola glowered at him, her lips parted in shock Before she could say a word, he bowed his head a little to Shelley, a gentleood-bye, and then quickly pulled Lola past Shelley before the wo out for the night? You didn’t even ask what her nao out for the night? You can’t do this to me!"

He could and he would That’s the kind of ht

"Be quiet," he snapped at Lola under his breath The threat in his tone said that if Lola didn’t obey hi home at the earliest convenience

The woe loud and clear, and Shelley wondered if Sal had given her an ultimatum before Girlfriends were replaceable

Shelley was still thoroughly rattled, partly because she’d met the monster Duncan wanted to take down, but also because Sal wanted to get to know her better She couldn’t think about plants or writing notes or taking pictures as she stared at the path where Sal had disappeared with the woirlfriend’s

When Shelley’s phone rang, she stifled a cry of surprise She pulled out the phone and looked at the caller ID Duncan What if Sal had heard her phone ringing? Could hear everything she said?

She hurried away in the opposite direction froirlfriend had taken toward the trailhead She didn’t hear theht be watching and listening to her conversation while he made Lola stand silently with him in the forest

"Hello," Shelley said to Duncan, her voice quieter than it would have been normally, but she knew Duncan could hear her anyway She just hoped Sal couldn’t

"Shelley, what kind of crypticso about plants, and…"

"This one you’d want to see But it’s too late Don’t coot et was here? Coone

"I wasn’t scheduled to pick you up for another hour and a half" Duncan sounded slightly incredulous

She wasn’t getting through to him, but she didn’t want to blurt out that Salisbury Silverman was here Particularly since she shouldn’t have known his last na down the path

"Oh, the dinner cruise," she said, as if Duncan had just told her he was taking her on one, and she’d forgotten all about it She knew that was not going to go over ith Duncan, ouldn’t knohat the hell she was talking about But she had to have a cover if Sal ithin hearing distance