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But what had happened to that man? The wolf couldn’t have torn into him She sed convulsively

Then she reconsidered The only one she knew by the name of Jake was Jake Silver And the voice The voice sounded like his Yet he couldn’t have known she was out here And if he’d had any inkling that she hy had he stopped his truck by the roadside and chased after her--a wolf--calling her by name?

No way in hell could he know she was the wolf Unless… unless Ferdinand Massaro had told hih her She shuddered

What if Jake was in on this with Ferdinand? What if Jake also had a vendetta against Mario? And that’s why Jake had come after her at the restaurant once he’d spied her, thento keep her safe Maybe it all had been a ploy Keep Alicia safe from Mario’s men so that he and Ferdinand and whoever else was in their little gang could use her to do their bidding Maybe Jake knew Ferdinand wanted Alicia for his own Maybe Jake had also wanted her

Because he was a olf, too

She sed hard, her throat as parched as a dry Colorado summer She couldn’t believe any more olves existed How could she have been so naive about Jake? Thinking that he’d really cherished her like the way he’d behaved? She should have known the way he’d acted toward her wasn’t genuine No one had ever treated her the way he had, as though he had really cared The notion would have upset her et away

As soon as she could, she had to escape the whole lot of theood How in the world could her life have turned so inside out?

She twitched her ears, listening to the approaching h the woods What if the twoher hostage were all olves, too?

A shiver stole up her spine

As the two people grew closer, she again instinctively struggled to free herself And the wolf again forced her to stay still If he’d been a normal olf, he would have run off to protect himself Even if he’d been someone’s pet, she didn’t think he could be trained to pin down another wolf until his "race? They didn’t seeuys, and being the lover of anyone ould call Ferdinand Massaro friend wasn’t in the plans

"Jake?" the ain and sounded worried

The other person running with the one as speaking remained quiet

And then they drew close Really close, their feet troh the underbrush only a few feet away Then she saw theaped as she stared at the one man, who looked a hell of a lot like Jake Silver His brother Had to be

This hter than the man who had stolen her heart This one had a hter He looked so h

"Hey, Jake, is this Alicia Greiston?" theon hers, but she thought he was addressing theher down

As much as she couldn’t believe it, the wolf had to be Jake Silver, her dream lover

She took a deep breath and smelled the new man A wolf A sexy, virile wolf She couldn’t believe he was one, too

The other man joined him, his hair nearly black and his eyes just as dark But what i And for the first tiuys, she relaxed But then she recalled Mario had a fair nue or two

She stiffened

"Is it her, To her still is any indication, it sure looks to be," Tom said "What do you want me to do with her, Jake?" He dropped a bundle of clothes down next to the wolf that was pinning her down

Without a doubt, Jake was the wolf, which meant he had to be a olf Newly turned like her? Had Ferdinand turned him, too?

No, no, Ferdinand had said he was all alone That he didn’t want to be alone She was sure that’s why he had turned her