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had his heart flip‐flopping.
    “I decided I’d take Trey up on his offer to stay the weekend at his place.”
    He raised an eyebrow. He’d certainly been thinking it, but hadn’t gone so far as to ask for fear she’d bolt.
    “When I was packing, I heard the shot and window break. It pissed me off. I got Dad’s shotgun out of my closet, loaded it, and went out the back door to my neighbor’s to call the police. And that’s it.”
    His wolf was howling for release again, but this time it wanted to turn her over his knee. She went outside? With a shotgun?
    “Do you at least know how to fire this shotgun?” he clipped out.
    She looked at him like he’d grown horns. “Of course.”
    “Don’t ever do that again. Scratch that. I don’t have to worry about it because I’m never letting you out of my sight again.”

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    Obviously not wanting to get in the middle of a lover’s spat, the officer prepared to leave. “Um, if we need anything else from you Miss Burke, we’ll be in touch. Where can I reach you?”
    Trey reached for his wallet and handed him a business card. “She’ll be with me.”
    Tara stood and started down the hall. “I think I’ll just stay with Meg,” she said loftily.
    He followed her into her room and closed the door with a soft, careful click. She turned to him, ready to fight about his autocratic attitude, and he gave the wolf free reign, stalking her across the room.
    With her back pressed against a wall, she looked at him with fear-widened eyes, which only served to make him angrier. He’d never hurt her. She had to have figured that out by now.
    “You will not be alone,” he said tightly. Taking a deep breath to get control his voice, he continued. “And I don’t trust anyone else to watch out for you. Pack. Quickly. Or we can go now. I’d rather you not have anything to change into anyway. Doesn’t matter to me.”
    She gasped, hurt and outrage in her eyes. “Don’t I mean more to you than that? More than sex?”
    He gently cupped her face in his palms and whispered,
    “Everything. And I will do whatever I must to keep you safe, up to and including locking you naked in my house.”

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Chapter Five
    Bradley Jones watched with mounting frustration as police swarmed over Tara Burke’s house and Williams drove her away. By the time he got to his car several blocks over they’d be long gone. Running for it anyway, he growled when a group of gawkers wouldn’t part to let him through. That got their attention, he noted with satisfaction as a path cleared.
    Once in his car, he circled as close as possible to the scene, but there was no sign of the blue SUV. He pounded the steering wheel and turned towards Williams’ apartment.
    The complex was a waste of time. Several members of the new werewolf pack had lived there, but after the attack in the neighboring woods they’d moved. He’d been back two days, and so far had only been able to locate Darius Stewart.
    Williams was the one the Society wanted, though. Good thing he’d noticed Trey’s interest in Tara Burke. Something weird was going on there. Not that werewolves mating was out of the ordinary, but two female cousins? And not just any ordinary women either, but the old witch Tinnie Duveau’s granddaughters. The other cousin was around, too.
    Summer. He’d seen her in town yesterday.
    He drove back to his new rental house and considered checking in with the Society. Curling his lip in derision, he nixed that idea and instead brought a steak out of the refrigerator. He needed to plan his next move.
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    it again. Williams was good. Very good. But he was better. They knew him as Bradley Jones here, but he’d had another life once. He could hunt with the best of them.
    Williams would take Tara and go to ground. It would chafe, but he’d probably bring in