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"I don’t understand what dreaet into a discussion of what Jake wanted or didn’t want

"It seeh It only happens betolves, and Jake swore you were strictly hu… dreams of him didn’t happen until after I was turned And then it was if Jake was coh it didn’tthat being a as like soo away But ere together, at least in the dreams, I knew he didn’t care what I was Which in retrospect was crazy, because hoould he have knoas a part-tih he knew because I did"

Lelandi ran her hand over her arm "You don’t knoorried I ell, all of us were--when Jake see to his bedrooure out rong"

Alicia s

"At first, he’d been so reluctant to drop his pictures off at the art gallery in Breckenridge Then he didn’t coured he’d er But when he was so disconsolate upon returning and said he was going back to Breckenridge, we didn’t knohat to think Darien was sure Jake was planning on turning a huhtly"

Alicia’s jaw dropped in astonisharou Sa tio Every once in a while, the choice has to be made to turn someone who has seen e are"

"Or kill the ant to do, but sometimes it’s our only choice"

Alicia sed hard "When the woallery and I had shifted, I was so afraid I’d have to bite her And then the others And once the police were suure I was a rabid wolf"

"Until you died," Lelandi said softly, squeezing Alicia’s hand "Then you would have turned into a hu"

Alicia’s od"

"Yes That’s why until you get your shape-shifting abilities under control, you need to stay with only our kind"

Then Alicia had another horrible thought "One of the men who planned to kill me--I bit him What if I turned hie condo as Mario forked up another sausage link, trying to keep his temper under control "What I want to knohy you failed to bring the woman back with you and hoo of my men died Hell, it took seven weeks just to locate her"

Mario’s voice was low and cold, and he was ready to kill Danny with his bare hands He hadn’t murdered anyone like that since he was in his teens For years, he’d had his hench to have to get this job done hiht

He still couldn’t believe the woiven up her chance to earn the bounty on hiht Too bad she’d had her infor and the police had arrived at his old residence only hours after he and Danny had split

He shoved his clean plate aside, grabbed his pen, and pulled the newspaper crossword puzzle closer

Ten across, nine letters: Extremely unpleasant experience

Danny looked peeved, not at all like ablock next "I told you, boss She shot S was in the roo attacked I got Cicero to the car and he died I didn’t know he had a heart condition But that’s what Doc said The daered the heart attack"

Mario wrote in the word purgatory on the crossword "Describe this dog to ain" He lifted his eyes from the newspaper

"It looked like a German shepherd The same kind of head But… not exactly the same kind of colors"

"Could it have been a wolf?"

Danny stared at Mario as if he was crazy