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Liaher body temperature, so it didn’t faze hih He wanted to bundle her up and force her to go ho to watch her place tonight and keep an eye out for her"

Her brorinkled in confusion "How do you know?"

"I can smell him"

Her cold breath curled in front of her as she looked around All the cabins were quiet, probably because almost everybody was still at the party The nearby slopes were e trees barely rustled with the wind "I don’t see anyone"

"He’s here Trustto physically hurt her"

"You can’t know--"

"Yes, I can Shifters act a certain way around their ether, but he feels for her the way I feel for you I saw it on his face"

"Oh" At his words her cheeks flushed a deeper shade of red and it had nothing to do with the cold At least she understood his estured toward her car "You gonna o?" he asked jokingly

Her blue eyes narrowed "I know you’re not cold, but you’re right Let’s get out of here"

Once in the car he turned the heat all the way up At least she hadn’t fought hi home Not that he would have listened She’d had a couple drinks and he hadn’t had any There were so her drive with alcohol in her syste she’d ever win

After they’d made it halfway back to town, she uncrossed her arms and flipped the heat down a couple notches "I never said thank you, so…thanks"

"For what?" He kept an eye on the rearviewon lately, he wanted tofollowed

"I don’t know, for not being a jerk about Kat, I guess"

His eyebrows drew together "I don’t follow"

Her shoulders lifted slightly "We had to leave the party early and you didn’tdeal about it Plus you defused what could have been a drama-filled situation I just appreciate it, that’s all"

Lia him, so he mumbled a nonresponse Maybe the males she’d known in the past were different, but he couldn’t co a party He’d only gone to be with her in the first place

The sooner they left ot to spend with her alone He’d barely had any time with her all day Her store had been packed with holiday shoppers and as soon as they’d gotten to her house, she’d spent the next hour in her rooht Part of hiht now he didn’t care

Right noas just the two of thee of it

Edward leaned against the door fra, one of his APL recruits, talk It was late and alone well and if they pulled off taking Katarina Saburova, his boss would be very pleased Edas in charge of the new recruits in the Fontana area and so far his track record was shit

The two recent failed kidnapping attehts and he planned to rectify that soon He’d joined the APL because he was tired of the blasé attitude of s were concerned They walked around freely like they had every right to It rong and nauseating His own mother--whore that she’d been--had left his father for one of those abominations almost as soon as shifters had coht be close to forty now, but it didn’t alleviate the pain when he thought about her and that lupine shifter She’d not only left his father but cut contact with hiroupie overnight for those animals It was like the woman who’d raised him had never existed She’d broken his father’s heart when she’d left, but she hadn’t cared She’d said she wanted a different life To this day he had no clue where she’d ended up or if she was still alive The male she’d shacked up with hadn’t been part of a pack, just so it iet Katarina’s neork schedule, I think we’ll have so finished

Edward nodded absently He hated being distracted but Brianna was in the kitchen with Tony He hated that pretty boy and it had been hard to ht Edward cleared his throat and stepped back inside the house "Callnodded and fished his keys out of his jacket pocket "Will do Talk to you soon"