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Unencurowl and draw Miller’s attention, to let hiray and give hi into Carol The red who had changed her had torn into her once Ryan couldn’t have her trauain

He leapt at Miller’s back as Miller railroaded Carol into a corner of the office between a file cabinet and a chair Her teeth bared, she growled, her eyes narrowed into slits, the blue color when she was human transfor

Ryan grabbed Miller on the back of the neck, crushing his spine with one bite, and regretting it as soon as the wolf collapsed What if he’d hidden the vaccine? What if they couldn’t discover a cure? Hoould they survive?

Chapter 27

A WEEK AND A HALF AFTER RYAN HAD KILLED MILLER, Carol sat at the kitchen table in Doc Weber’s rental hoh books written over the ages that discussed various herbal and other ho rid of viruses or colds or olfis a cure for the pack

Darkness had descended on the house hours earlier, so fluorescent bulbs flooded the kitchen with light Ryan was still annoyed with her for having come to his rescue in Miller’s basement But as soon as she’d realized that her vision of the roo, she’d had to rescue hi and not Miller

To to her, both otten herself killed But she had been the only one not standing guard against the other red males! Besides, wasn’t that what mates did for each other?

She took a deep breath and continued to study one of the books, while Ryan exaolden-oak table He was looking for a clue to where Miller ht have hidden a vaccine

On a whim, Lelandi had mentioned that Doc Weber had a personal library that he’d accu A lot of his reured that trying those re else see the books and testing the re participant

If a person didn’t die from complications of the flu, which thankfully no one had, he or she would eventually get better But for the lupus garous, the real proble able to shift back She was trying herbal re the effects of the flu and supposed cures for shifting, if any of the a olf’s hands with nails and striking a olf in the head with a knife were supposed re rid of the olf probleends

She rose from the table, crossed the linoleue door Inside, a bowl of diced onions sat in a thick, golden syrup of honey She shuddered at the thought of anyone having to eat it

A warhtly to see Ryan looking down at her His dark aaze was tender, and she knew that look in his eyes It said she had been working at this for too long and she needed to sleep

"In a little while," she said

He took a deep breath and nodded "I’ to take a shower Join me?"

"Sure"

He smiled, but she could tell he didn’t believe her She wanted to shoith him and enjoy ould happen between them if she did, but he probably assumed she’d never make it to the shower before he was finished

"In a little while," she said again, trying to reassure him

He kissed her forehead, let out his breath, and headed for the guest bathrooe door and turned on the teakettle More of Darien’s pack had shifted to their wolf for Jake, and none could revert to their human forms Toes to shift, so was all right for now Silva had been fighting the shift for a couple of days

Those who hadn’t shifted were taking care of those who had Everyone as left was short-te and about family members ere stuck in their wolf forms

A small tickle in Carol’s throat had bothered her for the last hour or so, but it was probably just allergies She prayed She also felt a little warmer than usual, which she hoped only ht of Nurse Matthew and Charlotte handling the patient load at the hospital while she wasn’t doing her fair share Sure, she was trying to find an antidote, but it see on holiday Except that she orried sick she wouldn’t discover a way to stop the virus<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>