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"Aye, Silver into battle" Cearnach nodded agreeably, always ready for a fight

"Nay The girl is the one who’s going to give us real trouble"

Cearnach s this a little too much

"Hell, Cearnach, the situation is too serious to be a How can you always see humor in every situation?"

"Sorry, Ian" Cearnach didn’t look in the least bit apologetic He spread his hands in an appeasing way, a hu in his eyes "What is it you want ree If you tell Duncan to return with her, leaving the money behind while I try instead to take care of the situation, you knoon’t do it He’s honor bound to both protect her and get the clan’s er He’ll want to remain on the island We can’t force her to leave Not unless we had our own pilot and plane Which we don’t"

For the first time since he’d ruled the pack, Ian wasn’t certain what to do He usually had no trouble est brother’s happiness and life were at stake "I’d send my mate to try and talk some sense into her, but I’ree As a roht like this What if this is Carlotta Silvero after Duncan, orto do with Sal"

"That’s entirely possible All right If Duncan and you can’t convince her to leave, you’ll stay with thehtain, wondering if he shouldn’t send a larger contingency The proble their wolf identities secret on a sh If all four brothers and so what kind of catastrophe that could be Yet, he was still considering it

Duncan watched over Shelley’s shoulder as she searched the Internet for e what her Plan B entailed He had already decided that he wouldn’t agree to it Mostly because he had the sneaking suspicion that she was thinking about being used as bait

Instead of asking her about her plan, he asked her about the call she’d gotten from Wendy Whatever her friend had told her had undoubtedly upset her, judging fro with her "What news did Wendy have to tell you?"

He said it conversationally, but as soon as the words left his ers paused above the keyboard and her whole body stiffened

His hands went to her shoulders He began to e the tension out of thee lost a lot of rant money they should have paid me for this trip, which reorried about it, Wendy let it slip that I was roohland wolf--male type"

"And?"

She let her breath out in an exasperated sigh "My Uncle Ethan is on his way here"

Hell Her uncle was bound to get in the way "The one who called, then Did you return his call?"

She gave a little snort of laughter "No Are you kidding? He’d give ree and come here and kill you anyway"

Duncan s to Scotland with your brother, Duncan," she said, looking back at hiht be able to stopto kill you"

"We’ll talk about it later" He et her on the da with her about it right now "What is your Plan B?"

"Well, it was to email Sal or Carlotta, or both, and let them know that I’m in the picture, but I can’t find an email address for either of them" She pulled out her cell phone and Sal’s business card "I guess I’ll just have to call hih I really don’t want to talk to hier"

Duncan frowned at her "What are you going to say?"

"Not sure until I hear his voice" She smiled not so innocently

He wanted to take away her phone privileges and return her to bed instead Duncan pulled her fro room chair before Shelley could make her phone call He took her to the couch, where he sat down and settled her between his legs, then wrapped his arms around her waist "Go ahead"

"Just be nice and quiet while I try to figure out what to say, all right?"

He grunted, whichit She frowned at him, then punched in the number for Sal’s phone At first, there was no answer The answering machine came on She hesitated, not sure what to say She wanted to hear what Sal had to say first, and then she’d wing it

Speaking into an answering uess you’re not in I’ll… call back later"