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"I guess I’d better call Silverht"

"As much as I hate that you have to say another word to him…" Duncan cast her a dark look "Maybe you shouldn’t call hi"

She shook her head "I’uy is a Class A crook Maybe we should think up a code so that if I run into hiive you a call and you’ll knohat’s up"

Duncan scowled at that

"Ignoring the possibility that it iven you the code word that said Silverht have called me back faster"

Duncan seemed to ponder that

She raised her brows "Well, I couldn’t co at the tiht I was crazy"

He smiled a little

She harrumphed "So you did think I was crazy That’s e need a code" She pulled her phone and Silveret his nue off She really didn’t want to have to talk to the creep again

"Hello, um, Sal?" she said when he answered He sounded way too interested in seeing her again

She was rethinking what Duncan had said--that she shouldn’t have called him back at all

Chapter 7

Shelley swore Duncan had stiffened beside her for calling Silver her talk with the crook irritated the Highlander

"Hello Is this the pretty wolf Ibubbly

She wanted to throw up, hated having to act, and knew that if she had been asked to be an extra in the film with Duncan, she would have made a realthe way he thought he was ingratiating hilib talk The man was so full of himself that he hadn’t even asked her naht"

First, there was a stunned silence That ue with her "I’ve already planned--"

"I did have a previous engage whatever he had to say She didn’t want to hear what he had planned She didn’t want Duncan to hear it, either "I had my days mixed up I wasn’t sure That’s why I couldn’t say at the reserve if I could come over for drinks"

Thankfully, Salto her phone conversation like she’d worried he irlfriend with hiive away his location and what he was doing

He tried again with his sirlfriend a wolf, too? I could have a friend coirlfriend, but I’h to giveht"

The silence was palpable Duncan sht not have his a her on a sunset dinner cruise that truuy’s estate, but Duncan had been chivalrous enough to drive her frouy Sal was a little late into him in the reserve hadn’t helped, either

"I see," Sal finally re extremely vexed

She was sure that Duncan’s offer had etting his way in s But not her

"All right What about toht he still had a chance with her

Shocked that he’d ask her out again, she felt her mouth drop open She’d suspected that once she said she was seeing another et the hint and butt out Apparently not He had the arrogance of an alpha ottenabout would be how Sal was spending Duncan’s clan’s money on her She’d want to shift and tear into hiive it up

"I… don’t know about to up with excuses on the fly But even though she didn’t want to see the bastard again, she et hislouder than he needed to, "We have a pirates’ sailing-ship excursion toer?"

"Oh, yeah" Da to be one really super-fun vacation Except for this business with Sal Silverain, silence