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I leveled a doubtful look at him

He nodded and walked to a corner, the farthest point in the roo olves for years I was the pack doctor for your family in the valley for the past four years I worked under the name Anna Moder" The words ran out of ed to pick up on what I’d said But I could tell it had registered by the shocked expression on his face

"The cute little pack doctor Maggie was always going on about?"

I nodded

He sighed and then burst out laughing "Do you have any idea what I’ve been going through trying to cover for o this long without phasing regularly?"

"I’hing Because antagonizing a naked olf seemed counterintuitive "I didn’t want to freak you out, and I didn’t know if I could trust you at first And after that, it seemed a little late to tell you the truth, and I panicked, and here we are Also, it was sort of funny to see how far you would go to try to conceal your wolfy tendencies"

"So you know about everything?" he asked, incredulous

"Not everything but s I treated Samson for a lot of different bramble- and bear-related injuries"

He shuddered "But you knohole family?"

I nodded

"And you’ve probably heard a few stories"

I nodded again

"You know about the incident with the moose, huh?"

My eyebrows arched "Uh, no"

"Never estured to the bed "Can we get off the floor now that all our cards are on the table?"

He practically dived across the rooe, nestlike configuration around him He lifted the corner to let ainst the headboard, he pulled led hair back froency medicine, but then I transferred to o I had to leave that job for, uh, personal reasons"

"I know," he muttered When I shot him a confused look, he added, "It’s just a surprise, that’s all I thought ere on afield"

"I’m still the same person I just have a couple extra pieces of paper you didn’t know about"

"But you must have made a lot ofin cheap rocery stores?" he asked

"I did make decent money early on in my medical career I was very comfortable And I can honestly tell you I have never been soup here works better for hed a little

"Because Glenn can’t take it all away again I had just enough ti of Tampa as home before he showed up and broke my face And that was after he harassed me ‘anonymously’ at work until o out with me, because they didn’t knohat my crazy ex-husband would do I made the people aroundeverybody around rasp the fact that he needed to ignore the unusual nu me in some way "What was your plan? Just bounce around the country forever?"

"Not forever, just a couple of years!" I exclaimed

"That’s a crappy plan"

"As opposed to your plan of waiting until you phased next to me in my sleep to tellto tell you!" he protested "It’s a difficult thing to fit into conversation, that’s all Do you realize how much easier this would have been for me if you’d just toldsecrets frole" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>