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"You can’t stay here You can’t get involved with her"

"I am involved" He wondered if other pack leaders had thisafter men I don’t approve of" He tilted her chin up with the tip of his finger and looked directly into her eyes, warning her to ry, but then it softened a hair with a hint of a se half the population of Oregon if I leave you alone again"

He grunted andwith rowled, and he knew the fight had only just begun

"Fa to Hunter and Meara outside, then turned her attention to Ashton "Went hunting, I see I like duck, too"

Rourke rolled his eyes "I’ a shower before supper" He looked at the clean kitchen "You are fixing it soon, aren’t you?"

"We just ate a little over three hours ago!" Tessa declared

"That’s long enough I’ So is Ashton" Rourke waved at the dead duck

"Hunter, too, after all the exercise we had" He stalked down the hall

"I didn’t have a chance to have lunch," Cara said

Well, Tessa wasn’t hungry She glanced out the kitchen"Looks like we’re going to get snowed in You ht want to leave before that happens," she said to Cara Tessa had no idea why she would want to save Ashton’s butt Although he cast her a grateful look

"I’ll hang around I haven’t been with… a lot of people… on a more social basis for a number of years This is the most fun I’ve had in eons," Cara said

Tessa couldn’t understand what the wo her even Why would she think anyone wanted to be around her?

"Did you lose your bandages, Ashton?" Cara asked, her voice sultry and sexy as she took hold of his injured hand "Tessa, do you have soet thelanced at Ashton’s hand, but Cara was holding it so that she couldn’t see the bite wound

When Tessa returned to the kitchen, Hunter and Meara had co her brother, and considering the ordeal he had been through, they scowled at each other and didn’t appear grateful in the least But worse, gone was Hunter’s lustful interest in Tessa At once she felt she was the center of the controversy and wasn’t good enough for the fa Just that he would help her find Bethany’s murderer and set her brother free Tessa should have knohen his memory came back, she would be history But no matter how she tried to reconcile herself with the notion, she couldn’t squash the dis he would soon abandon her

"Here, Cara" Tessa handed her the bandages "I guess everyone’s staying for dinner?" She cast Hunter a questioning glance She halfway expected hiood now

His brows still furrowed, his lips griave Meara a hard look She folded her arms and looked doubly cross at Tessa So ry Cara was the only one who seemed to be pleased to be here, and the one Tessa really wanted to see leave

Tessa pulled out a package of hot links "Can everyone e, bell peppers, and onions?"

"H her lips while she bandaged Ashton’s hand with tender loving care He tried to jerk his hand away, but she held on tight and tsked

"Anything you fix is fine with us" Hunter’s tone of voice was terse

Meara didn’t have a choice?

Wearing a towel, Rourke came out of the bathroom and hollered from the hallway, "Fine with me"

How had he heard what she’d asked? She stared after hirab soht he’d dress so scantily in front of a bunch of woain Is anyone leaving soon?" She directed the question at Cara and Meara "The food won’t take long to fix so we can eat and let you get on your way"