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"That year I met Max" Her s a girl as getting too clingy and he was trying to get out of the relationship without hurting her feelings And, no, there wasn’t another woman involved; he just felt pressured and wanted out So ound up coered alarm bells for him He said he wanted to meet Rudy and I said sure"

Adrian could feel her tension Everyone, with the exception of the children upstairs, was completely still

"Needless to say, Rudy wasn’t happy to ht ent on a date and he tookof it at the tione there before It was his favorite place to be, someplace where we could talk about our drea"

She sighed, her head dipping down and off to one side Adrian had the iht a flash of red fro her eyes behind those glasses "He attacked ht I didn’t believe in Werewolves or Werepuht"

"Werewolves?" Belinda asked She’d taken up a position near Becky, as was her habit since the attack on the fehtful The Pride leaders both looked cold and euard He turned his attention once again to Sheri

"Yes Werewolves Rudy transforround and tried to mount me My injuries were…bad" She took a deep breath, obviously rattled by the er He stood and went to her, standing next to her, holding the hand that wasn’t holding Jerry’s harness She see stronger, and his Puet away fro pretty badly Soet away, that he wanted the thrill of the hunt, but I don’t think he expected el finally woke up when I reached the road, because I was nearly hit by Siried him to take me to the hospital He took me to Max instead I don’t remember much of what happened after that, but when I woke up I was completely healed, other than a bite e of her white sweater to reveal a scar Out of the corner of his eye Adrian saw Becky rub a similar mark Simon’s hand covered his mate’s and he looked down at her with a fierce protectiveness that, for once, Adrian coe to look down at Sheri the sao and took his hand again He wasn’t certain she noticed she’d done it

"Max bit ed me If he hadn’t I would have died When Rudy tried to hurt ain I was able to defend myself I was forced to run when he tried to hurthim up"

Max took over before Adrian could ask some questions, like, why aren’t you a Wolf? "At this point I was pretty sure Parker was rogue I contacted the local Pack, and they knew nothing about him or his small band of friends They proet back at ht hi Sheri ever since

She’s been forced to move around a lot and not have anyone close, like a Pride, for fear Parker would use theainst her She’s petitioned to join our Pride, which aze swept the room " We deal with this threat now"

The Alpha smiled when his Pride members murmured their consent Adrian felt Sheri’s hand tremble in his

"Now, for those of you with kits, keep in et Sheri back Keep them safe, knohere they are at all times I’ll e-mail everyone with a photo of Parker so that if you see him you knohat to do ContactSheri’s hand reassuringly He let up io

"Or Adrian" Max nodded "Under no circumstances, other than threat to your kits, are you to approach Parker in any way He runs with about three other wolves That ed I’ll contact the Pack in the Pocono’s and see if they’ll help Last I heard the Pack leader was isolationist, so we may be on our own on this"