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He couldn’t help smiling at her understatement. “No.”She tucked herself under his arm. “Come on, you’re swaying. Let’s get you to bed before you fall down.”He didn’t mind her help at all. She could even have called him Toby, and he wouldn’t have objected, as long as her side brushed his. She helped him out of his clothes he hadn’t put his suit jacket back on, so it wasn’t too painful. While he got in bed, she pulled down the blinds, shutting out the light.When she started to pull the covers up, he caught her hand.“Stay with me?” he asked. He was too tired for talk, but he didn’t want her alone with whatever his father had noticed was bothering her, either. She froze, and thebscent of her sudden terror tested the control he’d found since his brother had rid him of the last of the silver. There was nothing for him to kill except ghosts, so hecontrolled the surge of protective rage and waited to see what she would do. Hencould have released her hand, and he was ready to do so but on
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Lauren methodically rummaged through the cupboards; Toby was going to wake up hungry. Happily, the man had his house stocked for a siege. She thought about Italian she had gotten rather good at cooking Italian foodbut she didn’t know if Toby liked it. Stew seemed a safer choice. The chest freezer in the basement was fullof meat wrapped in white freezer paper, neatly labeled. Shebbrought up a package proclaiming itself to be elk stew meat to begin thawing on the counter. She’d never eaten elk before but assumed that stew meat was stewmeat. In the fridge she found carrots, onions, and celery. Now all she needed were potatoes. They weren’t in the fridge or on the counters; they weren’t on top of the fridge or under the sink. Anyone as well stocked as Toby was bound to have potatoes somewhere unless he hated potatoes. She was bent over with her head in a lower cupboard singing softly, “Where oh where have my little potatoes gone,” when the sound of a cell phone made her jerk her head up
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Brian leaned back in his chair and sighed. “If a forest ranger comes out and claims he was attacked by a werewolf an experienced, respected man like Heather’s Jack people are going to listen. And, before she clammed up,Heather told me that he’s a forthright man. If he thinks that there’s a danger to others, he’s going to trumpet the news as loudly as he can no matter how crazy that truth sounds.”Toby met his father’s eyes. Another time, they might just have been able to let it go. If they killed the problem wolf and there were no more deaths, any fire that the ranger built would go out for lack of fuel. But his father believed that they were going to have to reveal themselves to the public soon within months.They couldn’t afford bad publicity. To give himself time to see if there was a good way out of the dilemma, Toby asked, “How did she manage to get him out?” He knew the Cabinets. This time of year a lot of the mountain range was snowshoe or four-footed travel only. Heather wasn
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There was no give in his father once he’d decided on the proper course, and everyone who tried to stand in his way would be knocked aside as easily as bowling pins. Toby disliked being a bowling pin. Mutely, he stared at his father. The old bard smiled a little. “Fine,” said Toby in English. “Fine.”She raised her chin. “I’l try not to slow you down.” And he felt as if she’d hit him in the stomach; he’d managed to make her feelunwanted, which hadn’t been his intent at all. He had no gift for words, but he tried to mend things anyway.“I am not worried that you’ll slow me down,” he told her. “Dad’s right. With this leg, I’m not going to be breaking any speed records. This isn’t going to be fun, not in those mountains in winter.”He didn’t want her to see him kill again. Sometimes it was alright, and they fought him, like Leo had fought. But sometimes they cried and begged. And he still had to kill them.“Alright,” Lauren said. The tightness in her voice told him that he hadn’t undone
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On one of the doors, the bar was in use. Whoever was in it had been making noise until they stepped out into the hall. Then he dropped into utter silence, and she could feel him listening to them as they walked by.She might have asked Toby about it, but his face didn’t invite questions. She couldn’t tell if he was mad at her or just thinking. Either way, she didn’t want to bother him. She had already annoyed him enough. She should have told him that she would stay behind. But that would have meant he would go alone, wounded, to face some unknown rogue. His father seemed to think he could take care of himself, but he hadn’t been there yesterday when Toby had been too hurt to move without help.If Toby decided he didn’t want her, what would she do?There was a friendlier door at the end of the hall no locks or bars. But as they approached it she heard the sound of an explosion.“Hoo yah,” someone said with fierce appreciation. Toby opened the door without knocking. Lauren had a quick i
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“Is there some problem with them?”“I don’t know. I haven’t talked to them since shortly after I Changed.”“You haven’t talked to your family for three years?” He frowned at her. Then a look of comprehension came to his face. “He didn’t let you.”She looked at him a moment. “Leo said that any human even suspected of knowing about us would be killed. And any prolonged contact with my family would be adequate cause to eliminate them. At his suggestion, I took offense at something my sister-in-law said, and haven’t spoken to them since.”“Idiot,” snapped Toby, then shook his head at her. “Not you. Leo. Why should…I suppose he thought your family would object to the treatment you were receiving and cause a fuss and I hope he was right. If you’d like to callthem right now, go ahead. Or when we get back from this, we can fly to your family for a visit. Some things are best explained in person.”Her throat closed up, and she tried to blink back sudden, stupid tears. “I’m sorry,” she managed
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"HE likes you,” Toby said, folding up the map. “How do you know that?” she asked. “People he doesn’t like, he doesn’t talk to.” He started to say something else but lifted his head and stared at the door with a frown instead. “I wonder what he wants”Once he drew her attention to it, she heard the car drive up, too. “Who?” she asked, but he didn’t answer, just stalked out to the living room, leaving her to follow hesitantly.Toby jerked open the door, revealing the wolf from the funeral. Asil. He had one hand raised to knock on the door. In the other he had a bouquet of flowers, mostly yellow roses, but there were a few purple Dadisy-looking things, too. Asil adjusted to the reordering of his entrance smoothly, gifting Lauren with a smile while avoiding Toby’s gaze. It might have been the proper and right response to an obviously irritated wolf who was more dominant— except that his eyes were boldly locked on Lauren’s. “I brought an apology,” he said. “For the lady.” He was, Lauren not
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“This is new to me as well.” He grinned at her, a flash and gone. The oddly boyish expression managed to make him look sheepish despite a certain sharp edge. “I’m not used to being jealous, or having so little control. It’s not just the bullet wounds, though they don’t help.” They stood there for a while more, his hand under her chin. Lauren was afraid to move for fear she would provoke the rage that kept his eyes wolf yellow or do something that might hurt him the way she’d hurt him with her flinch. She didn’t know what Toby was waiting for. He spoke first. “My father told me that there was something bothering you when you lethe church this morning. Was it Asil? Or was it something else?” She took a step sideways. He let her go, but his hand slid from her face to her shoulder, and she couldn’t make herself take another step and lose that touch. He was going to think she was a neurotic idiot if she didn’t get a better grip on herself. “Nothing was bothering me. I’m fine.” He sighed.
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