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Alicia frowned at the push-up bra "It’s all right I would never have worn red lingerie, though, if Jake hadn’t bought it for me" She pulled on the T-shirt and jeans

"I have to ask you," Lelandi said, growing serious "Are you mated?"

Lelandi see up the jeans "I heard Jake talking about it to Darien Does ithad sex with a inally "Only if he was a olf"

"No Not with a man, either, since I was turned" Except for her dreaure that counted

"Good And you’re not pregnant?"

"Oh No I’ot poor Jake into a lot of trouble over that I didn’t knohat else to say when I shape-shifted so all of a sudden at the art gallery No one sawthe time and I wouldn’t leave the restroom stall"

"That must have been horrible for you, Alicia You’re too newly turned to be out in public I don’t want you to worry about it But the pack is your family, and we take care of our own"

Alicia was so overcoesture with heartfelt sincerity Alicia had been so worried about how others would view her that she couldn’t believe hoelco they were But she had to know if any of them were connected to Massaro and his cohorts "When are you due?" Alicia asked

"A month Triplets are on the way"

"Triplets? Oh, my And…" Alicia’s eyes widened "Jake is a triplet?"

Lelandi s in that if she’d ever had a child with Jake, it could very well be three at once The worrisoht suddenly struck her--would they be olves, too?

"Where’s your fa the subject, and Alicia wondered if Lelandi could read the worry in her expression

"I don’t have any" Alicia thought Lelandi gave a slight sigh of relief "My dad ran off when I o, and randmother raised me But they’re both dead now"

"I’ "But in a way it enetics secret from them could be a trial" She shifted on the chair and rubbed her lower back "Darien said you are a bounty hunter But until you’re sure you’ve got the shifting under control, you’ll have to put your job on hold"

Alicia relaxed a little "I was rethinking whether I should stay in that job anyway after what had happened this last tio after wo that there was sexualwe can talk about later" Lelandi took a deep breath "Where’s theAlicia needed "Dead And the man who turned him is dead also Ferdinand Massaro was the nanition of the naht know hioodness, no," Lelandi said thoughtfully "Given our uniqueness, our secret is well guarded Certainly we run into each other in communities beyond our own, but that’s the only e learn others exist"

Alicia sighed with relief At least Lelandi didn’t seem to know this man "But Jake must have known him then"

A faint look of wariness appeared in Lelandi’s eyes, but she quickly changed her expression and gave Alicia a faked sh I have to tell you that e locate other olves in other locations, or when they stray into our own territory, we share that knowledge with our pack It’s instinctive As co-pack leader with Darien, I would have been ht, I don’t believe Jake knew the man who bit you"

Alicia didn’t knohat to think On the one hand, she got the distinct i Jake--that the coolness or hint of condemnation Alicia had tried to keep out of her voice when sheFerdinand had put Lelandi on the defensive Alicia had to re with a fa And she was the outsider, nothee he is dead is of no great i for a reaction