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Lelandi’s lips parted Then in silence, she shook her head and left the bathroom, while Ryan wrapped Carol’s hair in the second towel and then lifted her fro Carol into her bedrooown he’d seen Carol wear the night before It re in the , staring out at hi naked like the rest of us yet She’s got so," Lelandi said

Carol looked small and sleepy in his ar that silken piece of nightwear or anything even shorter and roin even further

"Does she have sweats? A long T-shirt?" Daht wear lanced down at Ryan’s soaking-wet boxers "Don’t let Darien see you like that"

How could he help it if rinsing off Carol’s naked body had left hih he’d done his damnedest to keep his efforts as professional as possible He was only human and a lot wolf, after all

"WhatCarol in the bed

Lelandi held out a light blue T-shirt He helped Lelandi pull it over Carol’s head When they stretched it down Carol’s body, it barely covered her feminine enticements

Lelandi slid the co his photos of wildflowers on his computer"

Ryan raised his brows

"It’s Jake’s hobby Sa buainst the side of the house Sam ran outside, while Jake tore up the stairs to check on Carol He found her shower on and a trail of water leading to theThe men had used a ladder and left it there Outside the house, Saered in the air The same shampoo that Carol uses Jake alerted Darien, and I woke Toht to the rescue"

Hell, if he’d been a true knight, he wouldn’t have allowed her to be taken in the first place

Ryan glanced at the bedroom door He realized then that there was no sound of anyone else in the house, no evidence that the group chasing Carol’s kidnappers had returned Which wasn’t good

"I’ll dry her hair You get dressed"

"We’re alone? Just you, Carol, and me?" he asked "What if the men had tried to take you also while everyone left you alone?"

"I’ve got big teeth if anyone is of ahere I called the sheriff and his deputy, and they’re on their way"

"Hell, that’s not soon enough And these guys have guns"

"I heard What is the world co to?" Lelandi sounded flippant, but her worried look belied her true feelings as she hooked up a blow-dryer and began running the hot air over Carol’s hair

Ryan watched Lelandi coh the damp strands the way he had done when he rinsed the soap out Silky blonde curls turned froht of hoould feel to run his fingers through her hair when it was dry

Shaking loose of the notion, he headed into the bathroom to strip out of his boxers "At least three nize any of their scents toht and you have plenty of protection"

"I’ll do that"

Sa look "Hell, what happened?"

"She was drugged" Ryan dried off and jerked on his jeans in the bathroom "Did anyone catch any of the bastards?"

"Not yet Darien and his brothers shape-shifted and are tracking theuard the women in case the men doubled back and returned to the house" Sam walked over to the bedroo silver bullets?"

"Might have been Reds wouldn’t be a rays" Sam turned around to look at Ryan and frowned "Where were you that you got to Carol so quickly?"

Ryan grabbed his shirt "Outside I’d already circled the grounds once, and then I thought I heard whispered voices on the other side of the house headed for the woods I came from a different direction than you and Darien Since you were shouting and I was in stealthuntil it was alhtailed it out of here"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>