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She tugged out of her clothes and dropped the to her, although Alicia’s attention was riveted to the door, where thewood, while she tried to force herself to shape-shift again She couldn’t make out the woman’s words over her own

"Shift, damn it," Alicia ordered herself "Now Shift"

Fresh fear rippled through her What if she could only shift so many times in so many hours?

Yet it was her only chance If she could startle the intruder enough when he saw her as a wolf, she e to flee past hi the set away from here as far as possible, find a way to steal so on to somewhere new and different and far, far away fro as he dressed He knew the wo of Lelandi was any indication And Jake knew Alicia was in trouble, damn it Yet he couldn’t reach out to her, couldn’t learn where she was or what had happened to her She wasn’t in the usual places, the nicer hotel rooe beds and mirrors and pictures and dressers

In his dreauessed The bed had been covered with a co with the picture of palm trees on the wall Yet… he didn’t sense it was Florida Why not Florida? Because Mary froo He didn’t believe Alicia would have had tiet a roo on the bedside table in Alicia’s room, it had "Crestview" printed on the front That was a town one hour southeast of Silver Town

And someone had been about to break in

He called Silver Town’s sheriff, waking him from a dead sleep "Peter, call the sheriff who oversees Crestview See if a woman has called in a 9-1-1 Get back with me ASAP"

He clicked off the phone and headed into the hall Everyone in the family was still asleep He didn’t intend to wake theoose chase How in the hell could he explain he was atte the rescue of a woman from his drea of her for real Not as his dream mate Not when she was human

But how else could he explain the h the nearly nonexistent town a few ti into his truck when Peter called him back

"There was a 9-1-1 call from the Crestview Motel, just like you said The caller was a wo to kill her The operator said loud bangs could be heard in the background, and she figured a et anything more from the woman Then shots were fired"

Hell "And?" Jake was already barreling down the highway toward Silver Town and would go south on the road toward Crestview from there

"Her name was Alicia Greiston, with an e-i rather than an a-y"

Jake felt sick to his stoone By the tiot there, he found one dead ed in the wall across the rooun were there, and her still-active cell phone was charging on top of one of the dressers, but there was no sign of the woman And her car is still locked and parked at the one, so she wouldn’t have been going anywhere in the car anyway, if she’d tried Either the man as dead had broken into the room, and she ran off, or there were others and they’ve taken her"

He cursed under his breath, not liking any of the scenarios "Alicia" Jake frowned

Peter hurriedly said, "What did you wantout there"

"Had she called you?"

Jake didn’t say anything

Peter cleared his throat "The woe said she gave Alicia Greiston your number"

"Yeah, but Alicia didn’t call"

"The phone line was cut to the rooht not have been able to earlier But how did you know she needed help if she didn’t call?"

"Fauely

"Oh, okay"

"Thanks, Peter If I need backup, I’ll give you and Darien a ring" He wanted to tell Peter not to inform his brother, but Darien was the pack leader and if Peter thought Darien needed to know about this, he’d fill him in And Jake knew Peter would Darien wouldto leave hih, Jake wasn’t more than five le alerted him He yanked the phone off his belt and said, "Yeah"

"What the hell is going on?" Darien said hotly

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