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He glanced at Bertha She gave hi s his head

"This is Elizabeth Wildwood from Canyon, Texas Elizabeth,me to the resort," Elizabeth said quickly, her expression wary, her heartbeat ratcheting up a couple of notches She looked as astonished to learn he was a gray wolf as he was to learn what she was She must not have known Silver Toolf-run

He sy scent on her that revealed her concern If she worried that he intended to hit on her, she needn’t bother A woman who lived much closer to home would have appealed more

He let out his breath and said to Elizabeth, "Are you ready to go?"

"Yes, um, let me wash my hands real quick" Elizabeth leaped to her feet Without waiting for hiet to the kitchen sink

His gaze lingered on the fors Fur-topped snow boots reached to her knees, and her aqua sweater zipped up to her chin

The fact she was a shifter sure would be a wolf draw At least he thought so, as pretty as she was Bertha raised her brows at him, her sht she arou roots, and that’s why Darien had said she was part wolf From what Tom understood, wolves were just as attracted to those nonshifters as to full-blooded lupus garous The eager e

Elizabeth grabbed a parka off her chair, pulled it on, then snatched up a backpack He led her to the front door

"Have fun, you two," Bertha called out in a much too cheerfulfun wasn’t what To the Woodcroft boys stayed out of trouble and that the she-wolf coyote didn’t get herself into a lanced back at Bertha and tilted his chin down to give her a disapproving look

Bertha’s smile only broadened Tom shook his head

He held the door open for Elizabeth and tried not to take in her appearance again, but it was difficult not to--being the wolf that he was She avoided looking at hiht his alpha nature to the forefront, protective and in charge

He shut the door of the B and B, escorted Elizabeth to his pickup truck, and opened the passenger-side door

She eyed the interior of his truck "Bertha… well, she said…"

"Yeah?" Tom wondered just what Bertha had said

Elizabeth cleared her throat

He waited

She finally let out her warm cinnamon-scented breath, which aze up at hi into a crystal clear, blue-green lake "Bertha said you could hang around to bring me back to the B and B later, but I’ll just take the shuttle"

Without waiting for hih the windshield as if that was the end of theyou back here" He shut the door, then hurried around to the driver’s side

He didn’t knoouldof this she-wolf up on the slopes by herself He could i it down the slopes to get her attention, and all the injuries that could result