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"Cantankerous"

Lelandi’s gaze settled on Jake

He snorted "Your psychology courses don’t include Matchain turned her attention to Ryan "How do you feel about cats?"

"Cats?" He was a dog kind of guy Cats were too independent to his way of thinking Dogs kneas the alpha in the situation whenever he’d encountered theht they ruled

"Yeah, fuzzy little felines," Lelandi continued, as if he didn’t knohat they were

"Most of us don’t have pets" Which was the truth Ryan could just iine ould happen if he had a Tweety bird and then turned into a wolf On the other hand, even wild aniether and beco owner--and certainly not a cat owner

But the mischievous look on Lelandi’s face said she had so the subject up Carol didn’t show any expression one way or another, so he couldn’t tell if she liked pets or not

"Why?" he finally asked

Lelandi forked up solanced at Carol She quickly focused on her ht Whenever Lelandi had an opportunity to play matchmaker, she worked hard at it

"I have a cat" Carol finally said, and waited for hirunted She shrugged "He’s good-natured, loving, and won’t catcha long robe or play withrobebut satiny skin underneath "But when you shift? Then what?"

"Puss loves dogs I’m sure he’ll love me just the same"

Lelandi cleared her throat and directed her comment to Carol "Rose took him over to her flower shop for the day to show hi her own cat since he died a feeeks ago I tried calling you to ask if it was okay, but you ht he wouldn’t be so lonely when you’re working your nursing shifts"

Carol s with her and her customers"

"She’ll drop him by after the shop closes in a couple of hours"

Jake’s cell phone rang "Yeah, Darien?" Jake was on edge, which showed in both his voice and the way his body tensed He frowned and looked at Carol

"Okay Everything’s fine here See you in a little while" He hung up his phone "The sheriff and Deputy Trevor were knocked out Nurse Matthew is looking after theht off North and a couple ofafter our injured men Doc’s still at the house"

"In his wolf forht would come to pass had She was certain he would still be in his wolf form

"Yeah, but not to worry," Jake said

Carol frowned "As a wolf, he couldn’t tell anyone what had happened"

"Darien said he smelled that North and the others had been there"

"Why didn’t Doc change back, Jake? Why wouldn’t he talk to Darien?"

"He’ll change when he feels the urge" But this time Jake didn’t look so sure of that, and Lelandi’s face paled

"Why didn’t they take Doc with him? Was it because he couldn’t help thee into his hue back He has to coht?" Carol said

Jake let out his breath in a huff "All right, all right" He punched a number and said, "Hey, Darien, Carol wants you to order Doc to shift back to his human form" His brows pinched into a dark frown "And?" He looked at Carol and shook his head slowly

"Have hiht here so we can watch him And Puss’s favorite bed is still at Doc Mitchell’s vet clinic Can he have soet it for hi else, Carol?"

"Don’t you or Darien shape-shift again until we can figure out what happened to Doc"

"Darien, To the phases of the moon, except for the new moon We don’t have a choice"

"Try not to," she reiterated "Please"

Jake passed the inforned off and stared at the uneaten portion of his e back?"

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