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Darien knew that no matter what had happened between Elizabeth and Toood-bye Darien, for one, didn’t want the job of having to deal with the mood he knew To, Toot up The sun was too high in the sky He never slept this late, and he wondered why no one had bothered to wake him He hurried to dress, then headed for Elizabeth’s room Her door was shut He knocked No answer He opened the door a crack

She was gone The bed stripped Her suitcases nowhere in sight

With a sickening knot in his sto breakfast with Darien

The toddlers played in the den, squealing in delight, then arguing--the way he and his brothers had done when they were that age--while a couple of wolf nannies watched over they on a human client in the office they had built next to the house The home was off in the woods, but this was the only way she wanted to hen the babies were still little Bonding and pack dynaarou to the oldest

To his surprise, Lelandi was sipping coffee with Darien Jake and his mate were there, too, which was odder still They normally ate breakfast at their own hoh they didn’t knohat to say Didn’t kno to act

"Where is she?" he asked, sounding rowly than he intended

"Peter took her to the airport," Darien said

To rooone She left two hours ago"

Tom scowled at Darien "Why didn’t anyone wake ?"

Why didn’t she tell him herself?

"She didn’t want it that way," Darien said

Toht noas so angry that he could have put his fist through the wall

"What happened between the two of you?" Darien asked in a voice that was meant to calm him, but Tom didn’t want his brothers’ or their ," Tom said

"Was she scared of the one into the hotel after them if I hadn’t stopped her"

Darien took Lelandi’s hand in his "Anything else that you can think of that happened, Tom? She asked if soe juice but no real breakfast She was in a rush to leave She barely said a word or two to us in response to anything I asked"

"She was supposed to be here three more days"

"You said yourself she had a job to do," Darien re away froht not be afraid of theon that we don’t know about"

Toh his hair "I don’t know about that, but… I asked her to join our pack She didn’t act interested in the idea"