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He knew her well enough to realize she didn’t use the tears to h they still had that effect No matter how ht Toh That was fine with Jake He didn’t ht He’d spend his days working with the family, with the pack, and still have dinner with theuy, and that wouldn’t ever change He’d told Lelandi that, and he wasn’t going to repeat hi hi Darien and Lelandi together with the babies co hiet away

"You’ll needroo further to hi to figure out rong with hi silent until he ell beyond earshot, and then discussing his actions in private

He heard Darien’s phone ring and hoped there wasn’t trouble he had to take care of with the pack or town tonight, considering howto bed this early? Depression, Lelandi y classes Never in a uess that he couldn’t sleep because of his desire for a woman’s silken touch

"You need to speak with Jake?" Darien said in the dining roo surprised

Jake paused in the great room before he reached the stairs

"Yeah, he’s here Let me let you talk to him" Normally Darien would have hollered to hih why anyone would be calling him on Darien’s line was arooreat room, and that didn’t bode well

Already he was thinking that soh how anyone knew their connection, he couldn’t be sure Unless she’d been hurt and the gallery staff had made the correlation

Darien held his hand over the e"

Already apprehensive, Jake could feel his legs turning to rubber, and he was sure his face had drained of all color, as light-headed as he felt As observant as he alas, Darien noticed and frowned "Hell, what’s going on?"

"What’s happened?"

Darien raised his brows, then shook his head "You’ve got soallery’s ladies’ restrooraphs Apparently, she’s pregnant But they said you’d left your nuet in touch Your cell phoneto locate another nuave thenant?

Darien didn’t wait for Jake’s answer, but handed hi him like a olf

His heart in his throat and worried as hell about Alicia, Jake said, "Hello, this is Jake Silver"

"I’e I’ave you the contract on your work I just wanted to let you know I gave your girlfriend your phone number like you asked me to, and she said she’d call you Has she called you? We’ve been worried about her She passed out in the ladies’ restrooized all over the place We wanted to follow her hoht Did she call you?" Mary repeated

Girlfriend? Pregnant? "No She didn’t When did this happen?"

"Tonight A couple of hours ago I wanted to give her tiht I’d get in touch with you just in case Then I couldn’t get hold of you and called the sheriff of Silver Town, figuring he’d know your fa But since I couldn’t get hold of you, I assumed she only had the nu in his bedroo? Leave a phone nu She said that she hadn’t been drinking enough fluids We gave her a bottle of water, and she seemed better but still awfully pale Before the episode, she bought your tangerine wood lily photograph"

Pregnant Dauy probably had left her Hell, that’s why she had been reluctant to see Jake further But then why in the Sauys in her condition? She hadn’t been shohen Jake had been with her Maybe she hadn’t known that she was pregnant right away

The part about her buying his photograph finally registered And he was concerned all over again It was as if she wanted to reach out to hiht I’ll be there in the " But he’d leave after a few hours sleep, arrive way before dawn, and search for Alicia’s car at hotels all over Breckenridge Hopefully he’d locate her before she had a chance to vanish again

"I just thought you should know"

"Thanks, Mary I really appreciate this"

"You ought to "

Jake glanced at Darien, knowing that with their enhanced hearing, his brother could hear as being said through the ain

How could he tell Mary that, in olf fashion, they didn’t marry but mated for a lifeti her But with her carrying a baby, no way in hell could he or any other wolf risk the consequences Turning a human was chancy at best and rarely done on purpose

"Thanks, Mary I’ll stop by tomorrow"