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Bran smiled at her, then raised his cup toward the ht Frustrating doesn’t co his attention back to Charles "They are on their way already, I can’t cancel it now-and it needs to be done Announcing to the real world that there are olves a them will affect the European wolves as much, if not more, than it does us They deserve their chance to be heard and told e are doing it It should come from me, but you would be an acceptable substitute It will cause soh, and you will have to deal with that"

Relief flooded Charles with an abruptness that had hiainst the countertop in sudden weakness, as the all-consu sense of absolute and utter disaster slid away and left hirandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily "He would have called you ’She Moves Trees Out of His Path’ "

She looked lost, but his da laughed He’d known the old man, too

"He called me ’He Who Must Run into Trees,’ " Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to knoho he was, he continued, "or sole’?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at hi with that?"

"Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little sue-wicked and clever, so it stuck until he dinged you with your next offense" He tilted his head at Charles "But you were a lot younger then-and I am not so solid an object as a tree You’d feel better if you-"

Anna cleared her throat pointedly

His da so instead?"

"Yes" Charles paused because there was sos for the spirits to talk to hiot too de, he sometimes retreated to his office, where the computers and electronics kept the in hio "Not safe, but better When do you want us in Seattle?"

Chapter TWO

"I love Seattle" Krissy folded her arms around herself and spun in a circle She looked up with a practiced little-girl grin, and her lover sold curl behind her ear "Shall we et you a condo that looks over the water"

She thought about it and finally shook her head "I’dlike New York"

"All right," he said, his voice an indulgent purr "But we can coain if you like it"

Krissy tilted her head and caught the rain in herout of the sky "Can we play now?"

"Work before play," said Hannah, the spoilsport She’d been Ivan’s playmate before Krissy Krissy had taken her place in his bed and in his heart, and ita hand on either side of his shirt and tugging hio play? We don’t have to work tonight, do we?"

He let her take his mouth, and when he raised his head, his eyes were hot "Hannah, take the others to our hotel and contact our employer Krissy and I will be there in a few hours"