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"You won’t be alone with a bunch of men, Carol, if that’s what you’re worried about I’ll be there with Darien, presiding over the party Silva will be there and Sa from another wolf community They like e have here--where wolves run the town and not humans One’s a librarian ants to start a library in town And the other is ato be a real hit"

All of a sudden, Carol didn’t feel so important Not that she wanted to mate with someone for life whom she wasn’t interested in… but to compete with a masseuse? Carol probably had the librarian beat She shook her head at herself This was still barbaric And she wasn’t going along with it

Lelandi was rattling off a list of na to attend, but Carol watched the way she rubbed her fingers over her stomach every once in a while, and Carol’sfroer to Carol, Lelandi’s lips parted for a second, and then she smiled "Four and a half months"

Silva immediately put her hand on Lelandi’s belly "Well, I’ll be Just how long were you going to hide this little secret froames today If I’d mentioned it before then, Darien wouldn’t have letso careful with her on the playing field and why Lelandi had been napping nant Carol grinned

"Wow, this is really a reason to celebrate Triplets Just like I had envisioned"

"Do you knohat sex they are?" Silva asked Carol

Three boys, but Carol looked at Lelandi to see if she wanted to know

Lelandi shook her head "No If you know, don’t tell ht This is your co out Not the other ladies’ either They’ve already been introduced to their wolf packs to court And neither cared for their prospects So that’s why they’re here" She took another bite of her burger

"They were born lupus garous, weren’t they?" Carol asked, hoping that at least one of theet along So I’ one will stay and the other will look elsewhere I’ve already interviewed theh by the to do with farabbed a plate with chips and a burger "So what if a couple of the guys want the wo here?"

"We’ll have problems Darien has already counseled the men and said that if matches are made, one of the couples willa ave a short laugh "Especially with a chance at a masseuse"

"I don’t know, Carol You’re more of a known quantity, one of our own, and no one would have to leave the pack," Lelandi said

"H else, then?"

Lelandi suys have been talking about you They shut up when I’ued"

"Same here" Silva waved a potato chip "As soon as I hear your name mentioned at the tavern, I check on the table next to the and end the conversation So, yep, they’re interested"

"Sure are For fiveDarien--or his brothers so they would relay the information to Darien--to let them date you," Lelandi said

"And you’ve been the one to keep the lad that they had not been avoiding her because they thought her too different

Her green eyes flashing with hu Darien wanted you to adjust to being one of us, and he wants you to shape-shift first We never thought anyone as newly turned could prevent the shift for this long, though"

For the first tilad for her psychic abilities, if that as keeping her fro She just hoped she could put it off forever, or that her visions of Doc being unable to shift back to human forn