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But I could not look away, and nothing about this felt nor inside ed There was a piece of o to hier, and this reaction was strange to say the least This was netism; it was practically a law of attraction The pull knotted insideof a thousand desperate le bare bulb My body de My chair was several inches behindhands When had I stood?

His friends atchingbetween us They were both interested and unconcerned by my reaction I bet none of them had toall three were picture-perfect male specimens The man in the middle smiled, a flash of white canines, and it dawned onbelow the cinnamon and electricity It stopped me dead in my tracks

"Wolf," I said It was almost a hiss, the sound an ani lured by him, and I wasn’t about to have any part of it I had no intention of letting some animal dupetheir powers to overwhel with er than most adults with the affliction Just because I’d never shifted as an adult didn’twho’d probably been turned last as going to get the best of me

I tended to shut out my olf half far more than my vampire half Vampires, for all their flaere still primarily human in their behavior I could accept that and relate to it Their society had laws, structure and regulation They were very political in their hierarchical organization

Werewolves left s They illing to abandon the hu wild and reckless I’d never tried to learn about their world because I didn’t want to be a part of so that catered to such careless freedom I did not have the luxury to letmuch more than ed with confusion again I was not going to play his ga towards the back entrance of the patio, I made a break for it I was allance back They were gone

I stopped walking, still clutching o when he saw I clearly wasn’t interested I breathed a sigh of relief One less thing to worry about for the night My plate was already overburdened as it was The last thing I needed was to fend off so back to the corner, I walked smack into the tall brunet who had been with the man A small sound of surprise escaped my lips

"What the--?"

"I’d like you to come withfor the gun at the srabbed my arm first

"That won’t be necessary We only want to have a quick ith you about what just happened at the café"

Before I could find the proper string of profanities to explain I had no intention of going anywhere with hi car He pushed un froht couldn’t get any worse

Chapter Six

"What the hell do you think you’re doing?" I was in the back of a sleek town car sitting next to the handso tinted s a lot less than I had earlier that evening

"My nao around sending out your lupine et rejected! I don’t care what bit you, that’s just not how it’s done"

He regardedI’d said or perhaps because of it, he slance with the brunet "Is that what you think that was? You think you were attracted to ic?" He said the last tords with a sarcastic flourish, spreading his pal a spell

"Don’t flatter yourself I wasn’t attracted to you" My arainst the door there would be an imprint of the handle in my hip later I wanted to be as far from him as possible in such a small space His face was half hidden by the dark interior of the car, so I only caught gliht "This next corner will be just fine" This was directed to the blond driver, the other man who’d been with him

"Oh, I’m afraid not,"from put out to pissed off "Please believe that you will be letting o, no hars that you and I need to discuss first"

"I have nothing to discuss with a oons to throw et to know a girl he buys her dinner first Kidnapping went out in the caveht you dinner…"

"You have got to be kiddingopen I was unable to suppress my shock at the shift in his methods