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"No I wanted to speak to you about--"
Lights suddenly flooded the back porch and Jake yelled, "Here! She’s taken off into the woods this way!"
Chapter 2
"OH, NO GO," CAROL WHISPERED TO RYAN IN THE dark woods, at once sounding vulnerable and desperate Darien and his brothers were sure to be on the warpath as they searched for her "If Darien finds aze lingering lower "There’ll be hell to pay"
"He’ll smell me anyway and seeMaybe he orried he otten her into trouble because of their actions Yet, the inexplicable feeling kept gnawing at hiation and after she’d been injured, Darien hadn’t allowed it Ryan didn’t like to be thwarted in any fact-finding mission he set out to accomplish And he wouldn’t be this time, either
"Go," she pleaded
"Tomorrow, I’ll speak with you at the celebration"
"Darien won’t allow it You knoon’t"
At that, Ryan felt a stab of guilt The only reason he came here was to see Carol and prove she didn’t have any special abilities For an instant, he thought she sounded hopeful that he wanted to see her about so more intimate Which struck another chord deep inside
He had to remind himself that his oolf pack hadn’t had a newly turned wolf in a couple of decades So he wasn’t used to the notion that so to pack life where a leader had to ensure the newbie didn’t stray far and cause colossal problems that couldn’t easily be resolved
"Carol…"
She shook her head "Go, now I’ll try to see you toround his teeth and listened to the hurried footfalls headed in their direction Then he shape-shifted and, at a wolf’s loping run, took off for the river to hide his tracks again Eventually, he’d return to the bed and breakfast and settle in his rooht not be able to keep the room if Darien learned about it
He had wanted to face Darien and his people and explain why he had been there tonight, knowing they’d question Carol h as a naked man, he’d have had no chance to explain hiical reason to explain it to himself
"Carol!" Darien said, his tone sharp but worried
A pack leader carried the burden of keeping all of his people safe, Ryan knew only too well He headed toward the river and thought he saw a flash of red fur Coyote? Another red wolf? He glanced back in the direction he had come Couldn’t have been Carol, and he doubted it would have been Lelandi
Unless it was that sneaky cousin of Lelandi’s, Ural Or some other member of her family Why slip around in the dark out here in the woods like he was doing? Ryan’s spine stiffened as he considered what ht have happened to Carol if she had encountered whoever this was alone in the dark
He had never liked coincidences and rarely believed in theate the red in the event he could be trouble for Darien’s people
With a quick twist in the wolf’s direction, Ryan dashed in hot pursuit after the red
The ihts as he raced off in his wolf for enough to nearlyelse Dark coffee- colored hair curling around his ears had soular planes of his face, a shadowy stubble adding to the sexy ruggedness She hadn’t seen him in five months, but that amount of time didn’t diminish the way she had reo when she explained to Darien what she’d envisioned and helped hi the murderer to justice
Ryan had observed her the saued with her Most likely because he’d never ht
But then she was back to thinking about his naked body Healthy Right Sleek hard muscles toned to perfection, darkly pebbled nipples and an indented naveleven as she had ad out froe feet, all very well proportioned, caught her iination She’d definitely not seen hile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>