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Some heads would roll - probably not literally "There is only one pack in Boston" It wasn’t quite a question, but Da should have started asking questions if three wolves from the same pack had died in a short period of time

"One tourist from a Vermont pack and another from Seattle Only one fro we can add to the investigation"

"You’re sending me?" People instinctively wanted to please Adaood at the coax-and-char Anna You are going as her guard I’ve sent the particulars of what I know to your e- around a hotel, trailing a pair of federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing ents because only uage said they weren’t in a relationship, so that meant military, feds, or cops Since they were headed the same direction he was, Charles surmised that he’d happened upon two of the feds they were supposed to ht ca feds through the halls of the old elegant hotel, especially because they had no inkling that he was doing it It amused him

If he hadn’t lost the bet to Anna, he’d never have gotten the chance Who’d have thought that the security people at SeaTac would be so worried about hih the checkpoint? His bet should have been a safe one - and the worst that would happen to Anna was that they would throw out her water bottle

It was his fault he’d lost the bet

Maybe Sa when he’d told Charles that his expression put people off, because one of the hotel workers who’d been giving hirin

He could have beaten Anna He hadn’t needed to let out a subvocal growl at exactly the right moment to distract everyone when Anna threw the plastic bottle over the scanners and onto someone else’s pack on the other side of the machines No one heard him, not really, just felt the hairs on the backs of their necks crahile Brother Wolf laughed at their h unscathed; she’d distracted hih the scanners Which had probably been her intent in the first place Smart wo up on the bet

When the TSA finally let hi scary wasn’t really enough to keep hi for him comfortably curled up on one of the little benches where people sat to put on their shoes She’d raised her blue food-colored water in a triumphant toast and then drank it down to the last drop It had been Anna’s idea, not his, to dye the water so she couldn’t just play sleight of hand - she would never cheat on a bet with hiely erotic thing - erotic andthat couldn’t exist in the sahosts retreated, not a per, but it was ood

Charles didn’tAnna alone to deal with the feds while he fetched for her didn’t make his wolf happy But he knew that Anna could charm the birds out of the trees, and a few feds who needed their help weren’t going to give her any trouble No one was going to try to hurt her Not yet, not before they involved theood for Charles to hunt so truly evil He hoped that his father was right - and empirical evidence tended to support his hope, as his da was frequently correct

So Charles followed the pair of feds down the hallway to the rooroup of others These weren’t FBI field agents, he decided, because neither of the any particular effort to avoid detection Homeland Security and Cantrip tended to havequietly enough that it would have taken a olf’s ears to hear them Unabashedly, he listened in

"Are you sure this is safe?" asked the blond man of the federal pair nervously He looked fresh out of college, not yet twenty-five "Iwith us," said Pat, the older land native softened a little by a stint somewhere in the South He was in his early forties and walked like someone who’d done a lot of it "They’ll behave themselves because they have to"

"You don’t think they’ll be ? It was supposed to be just you Five people Two FBI, two Homeland Security, and one of us"

Theyto Da, there should have been two of the their muscles Several so too relaxed to teach theiveness than permission," said Pat as he opened the door to the rooht, Leslie?"

"One of you can leave," said a woman’s voice coldly "Just because you aren’t in the FBI anyot how to count Five It’s easy You can cheat and count your fingers if you have to"

"Ha-ha," said Pat, pulling the door shut behind hi in "Bet you that no one really cares When is the olf showing up? I thought the ht up"

"Six people is fine," said Anna, and Brother Wolf relaxed further at the amusement in his mate’s voice "Five was just to keep the numbers down"

He’d known she was safe She was a olf, and if the training he’d been giving her didn’tit wrong But still, Brother Wolf was happier listening to the relaxed tones of her voice

Charles looked at the door and realized that it would be tough to open with both hands full He ed it, but there was another way

He knew better, knew that the ghosts weren’t gone But the te since he’d touched her, and Brother Wolf was so hungry Alry as he was