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Without warning, I was startled out of my deep slumber, but it didn’t take me long to figure out it was Jace gently shaking me back into consciousness.
He backed off when I showed the first signs of life, and I cautiously eased myself away from Scarlett’s gorgeous, red-colored wolf in the ensuing silence reigning throughout the small cabin.
I shot a glance around the room, noticing more than one pair of curious eyes peering at me before I pushed my wolf’s presence down with a great deal of effort and transformed shapes.
The ache hung around as I shrugged some clothes on and followed Jace outside so we could talk with a little privacy without disturbing the others.
I was pleased to see Scarlett remained asleep as I stepped out into the nippy air, but my buoyant mood didn’t last as I remembered the state I’d found her in when Jace and I had intervened during her brawl with the bears earlier this afternoon.
My conte
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