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"I’rabbed his arm and looked up at him He wanted to protect me above all else, but we had already been ambushed "They want me anyway!"

"No, they don’t want you!" Jack shook his head "They want Peter! You’re just the thing that’sto flush him out"

"How astute" The voice on the phone interrupted us, standing in front of us

Shirtless, his upper body was purebrown eyes, but they were so cold and e at him, I kneas Gunnar, the leader of the lycan

He took a step towards us, his bare feet crunching in the grass, and Jack moved in front of me Milo tried to step up next to hi hihed at his feeble attempts to protect us He was alone, so his cost the trees around us

"Where’s Jane?" I asked, barely keeping lanced darkly around us, ss in the city That’s why I’ve always preferred the intimacy of the country"

"We don’t knohere Peter’s at," Jack told him "He doesn’t knoe’re here"

"I’m aware I knoould never let a pathetic atte dark and angry, and rather terrifying "There’s no sport in going after you, and Peter would never bore his guests"

"Don’t go after us, then," I said "Just give us Jane, and we’ll be out of your hair"

"You knohat I think would be fun?" The devilish grin returned to his face "Is if weher to us"

"Don’t you already have her?" I asked, growing confused

"Yes, I do, because I know that a good guest always brings so to share with his host," Gunnar said, his dark eyes sparkled My sto that whateverquite famished, Alice, and I know that your friend is a very tasty treat"

Dodge came out from behind a pine tree a few feet from us His blond hair was messy, and he looked much less amused than when I met him in the woods He had Jane in his arms, and he held his hand over her

Her heart pounded franticly, and I would’ve noticed it sooner if I hadn’t been so distracted by Gunnar Her eyes ild, and she fought at Dodge as hard as she could, but it didn’t do anything He restrained her with ease