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He still didn’t believe it "The light froave a short laugh "Yeah, right Even you couldn’t believe so the others into the woods I hadn’t been turned yet The vision was vague I only knew Lelandi wasn’t with the nized some of Darien’s people and tried to warn Lelandi about what Darien and his people were

"She wasn’t froht she wasn’t one of you I thought she was like e her I’d never suspected anyone could be born as a olf"

Silva leveled her gaze at Ryan "Yep, so how do you explain that?"

Carol loved how Silva needled Ryan She knew if Lelandi was here, she’d gang up on him, too Not that Carol couldn’t hold her own, but it was nice to have the ladies backing her up She’d never had friends like that before

Ryan’s forehead wrinkled as he considered Silva in a disgruntled way "Aren’t you supposed to be bringing us sandwiches?"

Silva sives you any trouble, sugar, you just let me know" She sauntered off with the tray of beers for another table

That’s when the whole group fro seemed to arrive at the tavern en masse Darien walked in first with his arht at Ryan and Carol sitting at his table, but instead ofa fuss, he escorted Lelandi to a table nearer the restroolad at least Darien didn’t seeht in thinking that Darien had set this up, so he didn’tup his table to them because of it

As Jake followed the -to if every ti some outsider to sit at our table"

Darien slipped his arm doer, around Lelandi’s waist, and leaned over and kissed her cheek "Worked out well the last time"

Five men escorted Becky to a table Marilee had several others falling all over her as they grabbed a table and stuck it against another farther away Mervin ith the second group and gave Ryan another hard look

Carol studied the wo to remember where she’d seen them At the hospital? As patients? But they weren’t froain, Lelandi had said she’d interviewed them, so athering Or maybe earlier to see what Silver Town had to offer before they even expressed an interest in attending the gathering

"So where e?" Carol asked Ryan, ready to end this There was no convincing the stubborn man of science that what she could envision could really happen

"You were saying you saw our kind shifting while you were still strictly human Then Darien would have had to turn you if one of Lelandi’s pack hadn’t during the battle"

"Probably But you missed my point I didn’t physically see them shape-shift in the woods I saw it in a vision of the future way before the battle commenced When I eventually did see the scene for real, I had already been turned"

She could tell he didn’t believe a word of it No reaction, no expression to indicate what he was thinking Trying to figure out the next question he’d ask her to see if he could tear her story into bits and prove it was all soht to tell hio over really well When she’d told some friends about it, the ones who believed in apparitions had known she was telling the truth The others had had the same look as Ryan did now Disbelief, not even a small smirk in amusement No, he was not ahosts or anything else in the supernatural realm

"I bet you never read about fantasy worlds when you were young Never believed in the Easter bunny or Santa Claus," she said

He gave her a broad smile that made her wish she hadn’t made the comment