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Elizabeth heard the shock in Carol’s voice If Elizabeth was mated, so what? Unless…

She discounted that notion No as anythingto develop between her and Toot hi him didn’t turn off the part of the human brain that wants someone new and different after a while He made a deadly mistake Once the she-wolf he became interested in realized that he was part coyote, newly turned, and ed him, she told her brother Her brother killed the two-timer"

"Wow He had no fareat loss to anyone h" Carol removed the ice pack

"At first, sure I saved his life, and I truly had cared for hi a wolf He just didn’t realize he was part coyote I thought it was the perfect scenario He was happy hat he was because he didn’t know any differently But then he caught sight of the red she-wolf and decided to dump me for her

"When he learned I was part coyote and had noring the fact she wouldn’t have wanted him because he also was ot to him first I left the area after that"

Carol was quiet for a long time "You don’t think what has happened to you up here has anything to do with your family, do you? Or maybe this woman’s brother?"

"I… don’t believe so The as interested in ing on the question about her faht back to when she’d run away from her pack and settled in Oklahoma near her mother’s family That hadn’t been all that far from where the red pack was Texas wasn’t, either As much as she hated to admit it, she had never been able to move very far away from her family--even as cruelly as they’d treated her They were still family, the only blood relatives she had

But what if Carol’s suspicions were right and her faain? What if North had betrayed her? And told her uncle she was here? Or he ly revealed her whereabouts or been forced to give Uncle Quinton the information

"Where was your pack from?" Carol asked

Elizabeth hesitated to say

Carol chewed on her lower lip "Not from around here, are they?"

"Southeastern part of the state"

"About seven hours from here?"

"Yeah… so not all that close" Elizabeth had a bad feeling about this Hoould Carol kno far the pack was from here?

Carol looked disconcerted, her forehead wrinkled, and she chewed on her lower lip again "You’re part of Bruin’s old pack?"

Heart pounding, Elizabeth gaped at Carol for a second, and then she claht anyone froain, both Lelandi and Carol were red wolves Dr Weber was, too, Elizabeth remembered