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She gave hi a decision I don’t want to even consider right now"

He shook his head, his tone an atte to be ht away"

She didn’t believe that for a ht away" meant what? She had days? Weeks? A few months to make a decision? She understood their concern--that she had to be watched constantly, that a wrong move on her part could put the a mate would help her adjust hter than Jake’s and his eyes more amber, Tom sauntered into the kitchen and cleared his throat "Give it a rest, Jake"

Toht when she needed one, but even he had kept his distance as far as any kind of e feast She’d wondered if Jake and Tom had only stuck close to her then because Darien had told them to watch her, to keep the other ht

She harrumphed under her breath, and Jake raised his brows "Got so you want to share?"

She cast him an irritated look and chomped down on another piece of bacon

"Mervin’s real interested," Jake said

She didn’t care that Jake was teasing She was tired of the conversation

"Jake" To the baby of the triplets, even only by fiveorder ell established Jake wasn’t about to listen to his younger brother

"Get free haircuts if you mated with him," Jake persisted

"He’s the barber He doesn’t cut women’s hair" Carol knew Jake’s coth haircut and not growing it longer like other lupus garou wooing for a roht," Too with us, Carol?"

"Thank you, Toht place; he kept trying to make her feel like one of the pack But she couldn’t shift Not willingly For five e her to really join in and be one of theht"

Jake and Touest was ie the subject to one she wanted to resolve, she asked, "When is Puss going to be allowed to coh she stopped to visit hiht after work, she wanted her fur ball curled up in her lap at night when she relaxed and read a book or watched TV, or to play with hiht beam as he tried to capture it, or to run her hand under the covers as he tried to tackle the hidden object Sure, Doc Mitchell, the vet, let Puss have free reign over the clinic and kennel, but she wanted Puss ho hi Darien would see how much her cat meant to her

Her words met with silence, and then Lelandi and Darien walked in He had his arm wrapped around her waist, and they both looked perfectly satiated Carol caught herself before she shook her head, wistfully wishing that she had someone in her life like that They seereements Carol would cheerfully suffer discord with a prospective low that Lelandi had worn ever since taking Darien on

"Goods over a navy blue velour running set, Lelandi looked ready to coh Carol had heard that Darien had suspended the tug-of-war competition He wouldn’t say why, and no one would even speculate, which she thought was odd

Casting a cursory glance at Carol, Darien was back to his business look, as usual "Jake, I need you to ht"

Jake turned his attention to Carol Great What now?

Could they be thinking of having her debut to polite society as if she’d just reached the age of ency novels she loved? Soroups of well-connected young wo with Darien and Lelandi was the olf equivalent Yet presenting her to "olf society" at her age see-out?" she asked Lelandi She’d learned Lelandi’s mother and father had both coh in olf social circles

"Oh, yes"

Carol fidgeted with the napkin in her lap "But you mated with Darien," she said pointedly