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"Be just a minute," Jake said to Tom as he rolled the n

"Sure you don’t want us to watch your backs?" Tom asked, his expression concerned

Alicia was touched by the way he genuinely seemed worried about her, but she quickly shook her head "We’ll be right out"

Toave Jake a look, and she couldn’t tell if it was because she wasJake to have a say or because To on But it made her even store before her whole heated body gave her away

Tostore as Peter leaned back against the driver’s seat of his Suburban and said, "Wonder what that’s all about that she didn’t want us to see what she had to purchase"

Tom didn’t want to speculate, but he couldn’t help it Alicia was definitely anxious about so He’d never seen a s like his kind normally could do He supposed it was because they’d been born as wolves

After seeing how otten under Jake’s skin, how oing to get herself killed over this situation with Constantino and his thugs, though

He couldn’t help worrying about both Alicia and Jake, and how Jake would deal with losing her again, if it ca in the pack during the last several weeks after he’d lost Alicia But Toht Then there was that da after her without any pack backup when she was in trouble in Crestview Hell, Darien had curbed his anger, wanting everything to turn out for the best, but he’d been furious with Jake for not waiting for Tom and Peter to catch up to him Jake wanted her to be safe, sure, but Darien didn’t want to lose his brother in the process

If anything happened to her now, Jake would be devastated And Tom couldn’t let him down

"I’ve never seen Jake allooman to order him around," Peter said, his tone solemn "I’ve never seen hi special"

Those were Tolanced at hi?"

That the wootten under Tom’s skin, too How could she not when Jake had fallen in love with her? Lelandi had found a new friend in her also Alicia’s sadness concerned Tom, and he wondered whether she’d be happy with their pack It didn’t evena olf They’dwas the matter, and he suspected there was ang

To hi for a response "Maybe Jake felt we didn’t need to go in He ht we’d be more protection if atched the front door while they went inside"

But Tom knew that wasn’t the case Sure, Jake had to have felt it was safe enough for Alicia since he hadn’t insisted that Tom and Peter come inside even if she objected But Tom couldn’t for the life of him think of what had her so bothered that she would be afraid for others in the pack to know Maybe it was a fe

Peter rubbed his chin and stared at the door, then dropped his hand away and shook his head "I heard her vehemently say we didn’t need to come inside So that made "

"Probably a wo, Peter," To on with Alicia He couldn’t help thinking about thatand how red her eyes had been when she’d first come down for breakfast Jake had been tense, ready to defend her, fro Not that Tostore Then again, maybe it did

A few minutes later when Alicia walked out with Jake, his ar her to his truck, Tolum Jake’s wasn’t any more cheerful than hers If it hadn’t been for the trip to the drugstore, Toht they were just concerned about what they ht discover aeelse was the ine, then pulled in behind Jake as the truck headed back onto the street

"We don’t wear condoms e have a mate Hell, we don’t ever wear condoht away, but then he cast To triplets since they run in your family"

Poor Jake, if that was the case No wonder he looked so glu and often did, even about Darien when he had been in such a black mood before Lelandi came into his life But Jake had refused to tell To hi to locate Alicia Toth about what could have been upsetting Jake, assu it had to do with the woround that Darien had heard over the phone

Toht wo but bowled over with joy

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