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He wrapped his arm around her and held her close as he steered the truck with one hand "About the night you saw soree with you You couldn’t have witnessed such a thing in the dark Not without our wolf’s vision"

"But you’ve never sounded like you believedYet you continued to question ht I had visions"

He shook his head "I was grasping at straws, and all of therab hold No, I believe you’re the real deal And I need your help"

She looked up at him with a surprised expression "My help?"

"In case I’ a situation and youI can’t"

"So, that’s what this is all about You want me to be yourher sense of humor, he chuckled darkly "Yeah, devious of hed "I’ll help if I can My visions aren’t always predictable I can’t force…"

He looked down at her, his expression warning her he knew better

"… always force the the shift And that was the other thing You couldn’t fight the shift unless you were somehow special"

"Special," she murmured "No one’s ever called me that Crazy, yes Well, not so er inferred it"

"Crazy, eh? You’re about the sanest person I know" He gave her a war about you Did Rosalind tell you that? That I’ve been fiercely distracted? She’s a gardener at heart, but she was doing so to discover what ailed ood shots?"

"I figured she’d mention them I took photos of many of Darien’s pack members"

"H to Rosalind So why the pictures? And why so many? Fess up, Ryan You’ve alantedthrough his deni hih, you’ll have to deal with Darien"

"I told you that if I’d wanted you, nothing would stand in hed "That wouldn’t have stopped ether?"

Chapter 23

CAROL LIGHTLY RUBBED RYAN’S THIGH UP AND down, nearly touching his package on the upsweep He was ready to pull the truck over and take her for his own before they even reached the hospital, but it was too dangerous with North and his men still unaccounted for

"Hmm," she murmured in a sultry way, "I dreamt you came dressed in your plaid to rescue ht North and hisonly your shirt and boots, and wrapped the fabric around me Then you carried me off to the castle"

Prophetic that she should dream of him in that way? Or some deep-down Freudian desire to be with hiht? He’d dreaown that he’d seen her in when she had stood gazing out theat him

"Castle? I was the laird, no doubt" And he would have been, had his family kept the drafty old keep But sometime or another, they’d lost it to taxes and moved to Prince Edward Island first, and then eventually to North Carolina where many Scots ended up Werewolf or otherwise Some of his family settled in Colorado, and there they’d stayed

"And your clanslad to see you’d finally found a lady to ta his thigh with a light touch

"Sowing my wild oats, you hed She chuckled "But I’ a MacDonald What if the McKinleys had fought the MacDonalds?"

"In the old days, who knows? Now, it doesn’t matter You knohat this h

"We’reso tide of need "If we have time before Doc and the other men arrive…" he said

She stilled her hand on his lap "What about Darien?"

"He’ll understand Believe s out?" He didn’t want to tell her that he had already made Jake aware Carol was his, that Silva would be the next to know, or that Darien already asked if he’d take her as a ht down to business, don’t you?"

"You saw me rescue you and whisk you away from the villains to the safety of yon castle, so it seee fate, we seem destined for this So, is there any place private where we can go?" he asked again

Sht you were an adventurous sort But more than that, I’ll barely be able tohed "An exarinned "Now that’s an idea"<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>