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Ronan looked froave hi on, but Andrea saw the hard flicker in Sean’s eyes Oh, goody, she’d pissed hiave up He stretched and worked his shoulder "Slap a bandage onvoice "I need to find auze to the wound, secured it with sterile tape, and let hio Ronan kissed the top of Andrea’s head, clapped Sean on the shoulders, and banged out of the office, his energy restored

Andrea busied herself putting things back into the first-aid kit Sean said absolutely nothing, but when she turned froht behind her, again invading her personal space

It was difficult to breathe while he stood over her, sht and Guinness and male musk She had no idea what to make of Sean Morrissey, the Shifter who had ht unseen, when she’d needed to relocate to this Shiftertown

A mate-claim simply meant that a male had marked a female as a potential mate--the couple wouldn’t be officially mated until they were blessed under sun and moon by the male’s clan leader All other males had to back off unless the female chose to reject the male’s mate-claim

When Andrea had wanted to move to Austin to live with Glory, her mother’s sister, Glory’s pack leader had refused to let Andrea in unless she was ht to disallow any unht that the female would cause dissention or other trouble

Andrea, a half-Fae illegitimate Lupine, was considered trouble When Andrea’s nant by her Fae lover, Dina had been forced frohter back But Andrea had needed to flee the Shiftertown in which she’d been living in Colorado, because a harassing assle, the Shiftertown leader’s son, had tried to mate-claim Andrea for his own He hadn’t taken her answer--no way in hell--very well

Glory had turned to Liaht, to appeal her pack leader’s decision to keep Andrea out Apparently the arguments between Glory’s pack leader and Liau Andrea for hiure out, even though Sean had explained that it had been to keep the peace between species in this Shiftertown But if that was all it was--a formality to satisfy a stubborn pack leader--why did Sean watch Andrea like he did? He’d not been happy with Lia her as a waitress, and Sean ht Andrea worked Didn’t the big Feline have better things to do?

Sean was tall and blue-eyed, and he radiated war close to hi Feline She’d thought that after what Jared, the harassing assle, had done to her, she’d never have interest in ain, but Sean Morrissey made her breath catch To her surprise, Sean’s mate-claim had awakened her instincts and ain

"What?" she asked, when Sean

"Don’t play innocent with me, love What did you just do to Ronan? I watched with my own eyes while that wound closed"

Andrea had learned to be evasive about her gift for her own safety, but she soht try to pry it out of her, ainst a wall, looking down at her with those blue, blue eyes Well, a girl could hope

She aze--not easy--and start straightening the shelves in the cabinet "It’s soh otten it?"

"I didn’t notice you ic when you arrived I didn’t notice Gloryit either"

"Glory doesn’t know," Andrea said without turning around "I had a hard enough ti Glory’s pack to let me move in with her, not to ured, the less of my Fae part I revealed, the better"

Sean turned her to face hione white blue, an alpha not happy that a lesser Shifter hadn’t bared every inch of her soul to hiaze wanted to slide off to the left, she refused to look away Sean ht be an alpha, but she’d not be a pathetic sub, bad Feline do to yourself?" Sean asked "You could do a hell of a lot of good with a gift like that"

Andrea slid out of Sean’s grip and walked away First, because it proved she could; second, it got her away fro It’s not like I can cure ter I can boost the i of broken bones I couldn’t have icked the bullet out of Ronan, for instance, but I could relieve his pain and jump-start his recovery"

"And you don’t think this is soain, his eyes had returned to that sinful, summer-lake blue, but his stance still said he could turn on her anytiued by Sean the moment she’d laid eyes on him in the Austin bus station, the man would terrify her Sean Morrissey was different fro at the same time he made damn sure you did whatever it was he wanted Sean was quieter, watching the world, waiting for so, she wasn’t certain what