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“I didn’t come up here to raid your kitchen We need to talk about Slade”

“Oh, right Please sit” Rylee came to lecture her on pack protocol Couldn’t she wait until the ?

Rylee sat on the couch and cocked her head “Is he why you’ve been crying?”

As if “No, of course not I atching a love story” She waved the DVD cover of the two star-crossed lovers “The guy died of a brain tumor…”

“I see” She sly human”

Cricket wished she’d instead said she was refreshingly wolfish What did she have to do, besides kill a grizzly bear, to prove she was more wolf than human? Iths Including, a bout of sentimentality and a tendency toward defiance of pack rules “Not a good thing, I suppose”

“No, I never meant that You can pass as human better than anyone on the ent

ire team, which I have said countless tis me to my next point”

“Which is?” asked Cricket

“I don’t want you getting your hopes up about Slade”

“What do you mean?”

“Your wolf knows your list the packs, but I worry your huaze “Like it or not, Mia, the only human to take an alpha as a mate, is the exception to the rule Slade can never have you…as a mate”

Lucky Mia Her new BFF had Stallo’s blood and in essence was a hu with a olf “Duh Just because he’s good looking and yeah, I’m sort of in-lust, doesn’t , but a team member”

Rylee sighed “Good Lust all you want I just want to make sure you don’t confuse his need to have you around as anything, but his need to protect a pack member”

At least she hadn’t said “weak” pack member “Got it” Still hurt like hell, he was unattainable