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to confirm the
    wild theories.
    He couldn’t help but purr as he felt Edwina stop fighting and
    submit to him. He wasn’t able to control his physical reaction to her nearness, but hearing the voice of the man pursuing them as he
    climbed out of the helicopter and headed their way helped to keep
    him focused.
    Calvin fought a quiet internal war as the man moved about the
    area gathering the discarded clothing. He was pretty sure he
    recognized the voice when he heard the man’s crude jokes and
    laughter as he taunted Edwina. The man had obviously seen her, and
    Calvin really, really wanted to leap up and tear the asshole apart. He had no doubt that his brothers would help him, but since they weren’t killers and chose to follow human law, he held himself very still and hoped the man would go away quickly.
    The man laughed as he climbed back into the helicopter but turned
    and yelled loudly enough for all in the general area to hear. “Last
    chance, Eddie. Come out, come out wherever you are.” He heard
    Kieran’s angry roar before Edwina’s boss jumped in fright then
    clambered back into the helicopter and slammed the door closed. A
    moment later the chopper lifted off the ground and headed back
    toward the Mawson base.
    No doubt the asshole was going to use the discarded clothing as
    evidence that the survivors from the crash had succumbed to
    hypothermia and had zero chance of survival. As soon as Calvin was
    certain Edwina would be safe, he rolled to his feet and pulled her off the ground. Her clothing was completely soaked, her lips blue, and
    her eyes wide as saucers as she got her first good look at him up
    close.

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    Edwina had no clue what to do now. The creature that stood in
    front of her was like nothing she’d ever seen before and she was
    beginning to wonder if this was how hypothermia began. She
    remembered enough to know that hallucination was one of the early
    signs. The creature leaned over, grabbed the hem of her sweater and
    lifted it and all of her underclothes over her head. She hadn’t worn a bra under all the layers of clothing since landing in Antarctica so now she stood shivering hard enough to be a human jackhammer with her
    ice-cold tits hanging out.
    The fact that the creature then lifted her like a rag doll and
    plucked her shoes from her feet was more than a little disconcerting, but when it attempted to strip her lower garments off as well she tried to protest. Buck-naked in the snow with a creature that looked like a man but wasn’t was not her idea of a first date.
    Especially now that he seemed to have a friend. The fact that the
    first creature pulled her pants, thermal leggings, and underwear off with little effort despite her thrashing did not bode well for her
    immediate future. It didn’t reassure her when she noticed very human
    looking, pink cocks poking out of the fur on their lower bellies. She giggled hysterically as she wondered if the ice-cold weather had done anything to shrink those massive things. Geez, she really was losing
    her mind.
    Creature number one lifted her easily and cradled her high against
    his chest as he started to walk. She snuggled into the heat of his body, grinding her teeth against the pain as her extremities began to warm
    up. She hid her face in the creature’s warm chest unwilling to think past getting warm. Whatever was about to happen was no longer in
    her control, and until she had a different option, she chose to stay warm.

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    Chapter Four

    Kieran watched as Calvin carried Edwina against him. At first
    he’d worried that she’d slipped into hypothermia, but her fight to
    retain her modesty assured him that she was still thinking, maybe not clearly—wet clothes would kill her faster—but still thinking like her normal, cantankerous self.
    He turned to the snow pile and dragged out the clothes he’d
    managed to hide before the helicopter landed. The outer jacket