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Eli strode into the living area, where Kathy, Kent, Caleb, and the pups were singing along to a Disneytheir calls when Eli rushed back into the kitchen and said to Harley, "You need to go down to the base there noe speak The rest of us need to checkHarley, what are you doing?"

What was she doing? She was stripping naked so she could shift and go outside; that hat she was doing "Isn’t it obvious?"

"You need to stay here," Eli insisted "If anything happens to you, Jesse will rip out s"

"Look, if there’s a bird shifter out there,it None of you can cli birds I’et in my way" In only her underwear, she deain, Eli?"

"Dao" He and the Betas melted away Harley then re up at the basic tan brick house, Jesse said, "You sure Hector’s parents live here?" His human mother would be fine, but not her htmare

The house was s at it The garden was tiny and overgrown,the male’s ould have no land to roam The short, faded white fence provided absolutely no security, which would y It was situated on a very busy main road, so there was a lot of noise and activity In addition, all the houses were closely clustered together, offering little privacy

"It’s the last place you’d expect to find a shifter," said Roni

"Maybe that’s the point," suggested Marcus

"Nick and I will do the talking," said Shaya as she opened the sate "If all five of us speak, they could feel overwhelmed" Everyone nodded and then followed her down the narrow stone path and to the front door Inhaling deeply, Shaya knocked twice

Through the frostedon the door, Jesse saw a thin figure The door opened a crack, and a pair of distrustful blue eyes took them in Jesse would bet that if the woman who answered had been able to scent they were shifters she’d have slammed the door in their faces

Nick arched a brow "Adriane Flynt?"

"What do you want?"

"We’re not here to harm you," Shaya assured her "Or your mate"

Anxiety rose up in her scent at Shaya’s use of the word "mate" "You’re shifters," she said

"Yes," said Shaya "We’d like to talk to you"

"We have so, Adriane cleared her throat "I don’t know anything that could be of any interest to shifters We’re loners and we like it that way"

"It’s about Hector," said Nick

So Jesse couldn’t quite identify flashed in Adriane’s eyes "So’s happened to hi to put her at ease It didn’t work