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Biffy lashed out with his tail, slaed forair, don’t you think we y wolf sat back on her haunches, as though considering this proposition, and then, after afur of her coat retreated, and she stood before Lyall

Sidheag Kingair was a fine figure of a woman for all she had been converted later in life She crossed her arms, utterly unself-conscious "Professor, I dinna want tae be civil If that ht tae take his blood"

"If"

She looked at Biffy, now sitting back on his haunches, tongue out and panting after such a run "But I heard hi has been proven"

"That dinna sound like speculation tae e his fore He wanted to have so his ears, so he sought out his reserves of courage, faced the pain, and shifted

"We need to act within the confines of British law, Lady Kingair, as well as pack protocol The first thing to do is confront the air’s lip curled "Inquire? If you insist"

Professor Lyall turned to Biffy "If you would like to lead the way?"

Biffy would not like, but he did as he was told by his Beta, h the house in full view of half the servants

Thus they trooped down to the wine cellar--to find the door slightly open with no sign of being forced and the cellar itself coair erupted into immediate fury "He’s escaped!"

Professor Lyall shook his head "Not possible We secured this room to hold olves"

"Then someone must have let him out Or not locked the room down properly" She snarled at Biffy

Biffy was affronted "I assure you, it was securely locked, and I searched his person for tools"

"You , pup!"

"Perhaps I missed the utterly ridiculous idea that a butler could pick locks!"

"Perhaps you did, you little--"

Professor Lyall stepped in "Noait just a air Did you search Floote’s rooed, the long fall of her thick hair shifting against her naked breasts She still glared at Biffy

Unasha he had done all that could be asked of someone in his position, Biffy pretended to exa forms played hell on the cuticles

Lyall continued his questioning "Had he taken his belongings?"

Lady Kingair wasn’t interested in figuring out the minutiae of Floote’s disappearance She was interested in bla someone for it--Biffy

Biffy turned away to poke about the cellar, trying to find any clues that ht represent Floote’s ability to escape a heretofore i forot was Lyall’s shout

Afterward, Biffy was never quite certain what he did or why it happened He reacted out of instinct, but there were two instincts in place--the olf one that wanted to shift forms out of self-preservation and the Biffy one that hated the pain of shifting , more than a badly cut jacket or a loose cravat Those two instincts went to battle against each other as the great vicious she-wolf charged toward hie to shift everything

Only his head went over

That action stopped Lady Kingair in a way that nothing else possibly could She halted her charge, stood on four legs stiffed in surprise, and stared at hi on He still felt like himself, and there was very little pain, but his head felt swollen and heavy, as though he had caught a cold, and his senses were suddenly far more acute

Professor Lyall air, and stood quietly in front of hihtly in shock, not an expression Biffy had ever thought to see on his lover’s face

He tried to ask, "What’s going on?" But all he could e was a bit of a whine and a small bark

"Biffy," said Professor Lyall softly "Did you know you had an Anubis for to shake slightly It was fro naked in a cellar Werewolves rarely felt cold even in huair shifted back into her fully hury and iht him than she had mere moments before

"He dinna act like an Alpha"

All Lyall’s attention was on Biffy; he barely glanced at the Kingair Alpha "He does in soued he must look beyond ridiculous The head of a wolf, all fuzzy and yellow-eyed, on the lean pale body of a dandy I don’t want to be an Alpha, he cried out internally I don’t want to spend half ers I don’t want to have the responsibility of a pack I don’t want to die early or go ain, all he could do hine

"It’s all right, pup," soothed Lyall "You simply shift it back At least I think that’s hoorks" He frowned to hiht to ask if Anubis worked any differently than full wolf fur So He was reaching for that place deep inside that could force the shift, that tingling pressure of bones re-foro either direction, couldn’t return to wolf or human He was trapped in the in-between of Anubis state