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“Not to mention how Dr Becker will feel when he learns I claihter, after I told him I wouldn’t”

“You are the alpha, listen to your nature Don’t blow it like I almost did,” said Slade

Cricket smirked at her mate “I knew you’d come around”

“Rachel ned the non-disclosure contract didn’t necessarily have to live within a pack as long as they kept silent and checked in with the local warden She had to agree to be his pet at least in the interi in pack territory

“Bond or no bond, do you love her?” asked Cricket

Love? “I don’t know her well enough Or was it her blood?”

“Okay, did her scent turn you on?” asked Cricket

Lev stared down at the snow glistening on the trees His attraction had been ical “The minute she opened the door I saw her for the first time, there was a connection” He snorted “You would not have recognized her Rachel stood at the door wearing baggy pajamas, pale, thin; she looked like a waif at death’s door”

“Recovering froy from her”

Cricket survived a bio-engineered disease and if anyone could understand what Rachel had gone through it would be Cricket “Yet, despite her sickly appearance, Rachel was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen”

“Humans say love is blind, and in the case of us lycans, it’s so true,” said Cricket

“I have to admit her blood aroused me like no other”

Cricket sat by Lev’s side “Personally, that sounds like love at first sight and secondarily, first scent”

“She is sexually aroused by me, but I’m not sure I’m her type”

“Look how opposite Dominic and Mia were He, a fierce alpha enforcer and she, a human on the run from the mob”