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her ass out. It was a typical Leena pose, one she had perfected.
           "They're well aware," Aster said. "I don't want any of those nasty wolves anyway."
           "Okay, then," she said, still trying to find the words.
           "Just tell me."
           "Well, something really weird happened at the gas station the other day."
           "What?"
           "I showed up to fill up my dad's car and there were all these weird-looking guys on motorcycles out there. I could tell they were wolves, but they were different than any wolves I'd ever met. They were bigger, rougher and they smelled different."
           "I've heard bikers can be like that. They're like a nomadic pack."
           "They all started hooting and hollering when they saw me. They were all whistling and making cat calls at me. I tried to ignore them, but they all came closer."
           Aster tensed. He wasn't sure he liked where this story was heading.
           "But then another one rode his motorcycle up in front of them. He was really tall and kind of a muscular, but skinny—like Hawk. He had no hair and kind of a dark, olive-colored skin. He had these really strange, light blue eyes that seemed to look right through me. He looked me up and down and then turned to the others and told them off. They seemed scared of him and immediately stopped catcalling me."
           "He was probably their alpha," Aster said.
           "Yeah, I know. But what happened next was even scarier."
           "What?"
           "He looked back at me, looked me directly in the eye and told me I was beautiful."
           "Well, you are."
           "But then he said 'I'll be seeing you around, Leena.' What the hell is that? How did he know my name?"
           Aster clenched his fists and looked at the ground, trying not to let a random biker bother him. Maybe the guy was an old friend of someone in town. Rowan, Leena and Aster weren't exactly unknown around town; they were the head alpha's children.
           "Have you seen them anywhere else?" Aster asked.
           "No," she said. "I think they left town after that."
           "Then don't worry about it," Aster said, trying to convince himself it was alright. "They're probably just some lowlife creeps who know somebody in town."
           "Yeah, you're right," she said. "It's no big deal."
           "No," Aster said, staring up at the moon. "It's not."
          
 

Chapter 7
     
    Aster fought back rage and sadness as he drove down the streets of Bucklin, heading for Rowan's neighborhood. Had they tried to kidnap all the alphas? Would Rowan and Rain be holed up in his house?
           Rowan had always had more of a hand in raising Rain than Aster had, but he had still been there for the girl her entire life. They had found her on the street shortly after Abaddon and his crew had left, crying for her parents. It didn't take long to figure out that her dad was a member of the sheriff's department and he had foolishly tried to stand up to Satan's Angels.
           No, it wasn't foolish, Aster thought. It was right. He did the right thing. He was a real wolf, a real hero, unlike the rest of us.
           He kept replaying that moment on the beach with Leena from ten years ago. Two days later Abaddon had made his presence known to everyone in town and began to terrorize the people of Bucklin. It started slowly, with random vandalism, muggings and beatings. Then it escalated to him burning down the First Baptist Church and killing several deputies who tried to stop him. Finally Luke had confronted him one day, with the kids in tow. That's when it became apparent what Abaddon wanted: Leena.
           Aster choked back tears as he thought about that day, about the sadness in his mate's eyes as she rode away on the back of that motorcycle. The anger and grief he had felt as he stood over Luke's fallen and broken body all came