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even have gone somewhere. The idea made me green with jealousy, but since pulling her into my crazy scheme, Maren hadn’t given me any indication that she wanted anything else from the deputy. In fact, it had been exactly the opposite based on the tail end of the conversation that I heard at the bear match that morning.
    If Billy wasn’t going to act like a sore loser, then I could use the fact that he had feelings for Maren to my advantage. That was what I was counting on in any case. I cleared my mind. Billy said that between the scent and the bond, I’d be able to find my way to Maren. Someone else might have scoffed at this, but we in the bear community didn’t take things like that for granted. Our animals innately knew things we did not. It was those things that made us strong. It was also the things that humans didn’t understand about us, so it made them fear us. I could understand that too.
    I ambled slowly forward letting Maren’s scent guide me. It changed after a couple of steps, and I knew it was because she was no longer touching the ground after that point. She had been injured and carried away. I smelled the masculine tones of the one who had stolen her out from under my nose, and I cataloged it away in my mind. When I found him, he would be dealt with. My bear demanded it, and I wasn’t going to disagree. There would be a lesson taught to the ones who thought that they could come onto Greyelf Grizzly land and take the one who belonged to me. Oh yes, there would be a reckoning. But first things first. I had to find her.
    I opened my mind to her. I thought about her scent and her face. She had grown lovelier in the ten years. Where before she might have been considered a little on the skinny side and her red hair was usually wild despite her best attempts to tame it, she had matured into a vision of beauty that took my breath away. It made my heart pound in excitement and wanting every time I looked at her. It had taken considerable effort to keep other parts of my anatomy calm when I saw her standing at the foot of the stage before my speech at the Summit in her provocative red dress.
    If the men who had taken her harmed her in any way…. The thought caused my vision to blur. I heard a soft grunt from the bear beside me. He was telling me to focus, and he was right. I had gotten distracted.
    I let my mind wander back to Maren, and the expression of exquisite pleasure I saw on her face when I drew her to orgasm earlier that afternoon. I licked my chops at the thought, and suddenly, it was there. The softest tug on my mind. I would probably have missed it if I hadn’t been paying attention. This was the indication that the bond existed, and my mate waited for me on the other end,
    Kicking up my paws, I ambled in the direction of the tug. Every minute we delayed was another minute that someone could be hurting Maren or worse. I couldn’t think about that though. I kept my thoughts of her soft and inviting. I ran the cascade of warm memories from our past through my mind almost on autopilot. It wasn’t the first time I had done so over the years, but this time it was enhanced by that tiny little tug pulling me closer and closer to that object of my affection.
    I wasn’t even sure how long we ran through the woods, but as my awareness of our surroundings sharpened, I knew where we were, and in that instant I knew where Maren had been taken. I pulled to a stop and phased back into my human form. Billy moved to stand next to me. We stared into the night ahead of us. There was the faintest glow through the trees lighting up several small buildings in the distance.
    “The old mining town,” Billy said. He sounded slightly out of breath. “Isn’t that place condemned?”
    “Black Falls Cove,” I said. “It was named after the tiny waterfall by the lake just beyond the town. It started out as a logging camp but grew up into this after they found iron ore here.”
    “I didn’t realize you were such a