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"I never agreed to that, North I said I’d decide when I arrived in Colorado" She didn’t want to say she didn’t trust him Truth was, she didn’t trust her uncle If North let it slip that she was in the area, Uncle Quinton or her half brother, Sefton, ht try to finish what they had started last ti why she was here

"You’re afraid I’ll tell your Uncle Quinton that you’re here? Is that it? If he knehat I planned to share with you, he’d kill ry that Elizabeth didn’t believe in hi with her uncle and half brother, but he was still in their pack It was just safer this way

"I flew in early ahead of the snowstorm Why won’t you at least tell me what the evidence is?" she said to placate him

"Can’t"

"Fine Talk to you tomorrow" She had hoped never to return to that part of the country After her parents were murdered, it hadn’t been ho her uncle wouldn’t ht, but it had to be done--for her parents, for her, and for the pack she had never belonged to

The next ht inches of nefall, Tom Silver kneouldn’t be able to track the wolves ere stalking farmers’ calves and sheep Not when the culprits left no scent

To with probleoods factory Their eldest brother and pack leader, Darien, joined To sunroo the boughs of the pine trees, round A fire roared in the fireplace, the room as cozy as a wolf’s den with its soft, wraparound brown velour chairs set around a marble coffee table The views of the outdoors h it was open to the wilderness

To, Darien"

Humans often mistook them for each other because they were so similar in build and appearance Wolves smelled the difference None of them made that mistake Darien had the darkest hair and eyes of the three, and Tom was the fairest--"of them all," Jake liked to joke

"Hey, Toain today I doubt you’d find " Darien wore Lelandi’s pink apron over a broool sweater and had a few splatters of oatmeal on his blue jeans This was his usual attire, oatmeal irl A couple of gobs of cereal clung to strands of his dark brown hair

He often took care of the kids in theso that his ist in the area, could see clients Not to ist around

Tom swore he would buy his brother a lanced down at a splotch of oatlad to know I’ your brood"

Darien gave hi him that when Tom found a mate, he was in for the same trouble "Two of the ski patrol are out sick today with the flu, and the resort could use you up there"

That got Tom’s attention and he stiffened, alert and wary Every tiot sick with flu-like sy a virus that would prevent their shifting fro like the cases of ‘wolf fever’ we had before," Darien said quickly "Jake will relieve you at noon And a couple of other things…" He cleared his throat