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CHAPTER SIX – Maren
     
    I wasn't sure what I was expecting when Billy came into the living room and told me that we were going into town. I went upstairs and got dressed wondering what I was going to find there. I felt like my life had been turned upside down and, of course, in just a few hours time it had been. I made my way downstairs and found Billy waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs. He looked upset.
    "What's wrong?" I wondered if something had happened to Lukas, and my heart started to beat hard inside my chest.
    "Sheriff Monroe is dead," Billy said. He saw my expression. "They say he died in his sleep from his injuries. But I don't believe that, and neither does Lukas."
    "You think someone killed him?" It had been the core of Lukas's arguments all along over the last week. He believed that some horrible harm had befallen his brother, and now it had taken his brother’s best friend as well. I felt the walls of that unknown danger squeezing down on me. I wondered if perhaps my father was right. I didn't know what I got myself into by being with Lukas. It had seemed like a relatively simple decision at the time. But I told myself it didn't matter. As long as Lukas and I were together we figure it out.
    "So where we going?" I asked.
    "Lukas wants to meet me up at the police station. He said to bring you along."
    The gears in my mind were churning. It wasn't just around my concern for the community of Greyelf. My journalist instincts were on high alert. Getting the news story and getting to the center of the action as quickly as possible was in my DNA. It was what made me a good at my job.
    As we walked out to the car, I hated to admit there was a slightly excited bounce in my step. I was finally in the inner circle. I was going to find out what was going on before anyone else. We got into Billy’s squad car, and I looked it with a shrewd grin. "The last time I was one of in one of these was because of Lukas as well."
    Billy gave me a look with a raised eyebrow. "What doesn’t that surprise me? Someday, I guess I'll have to have you give me a rundown of everything you and Lukas did when you were kids."
    "Oh no, it wasn't me. It really was all Lukas. I might've been his sidekick for some things when we were kids, but when he got older, it was all him." I felt the tingles in my toes. Lukas Kasper had always created a kind of giddiness inside of me that I couldn't quite explain. I shouldn't have been attracted to his good looks or his rash behavior, but that bad boy part of him gave me sent all sorts of thrills through the core of my body.
    As if he could read my mind, Billy rolled his eyes.
    It only took us about twenty minutes to get into town. As we pulled up to the curb outside the police station, I noticed that there was a crowd gathered out front. I felt a slight pit of dread in my stomach.
    "Looks like news about the sheriff has gotten around," Billy remarked. He came around to my side of the car and opened the door. There was a part of me that didn't want to get out.
    I saw Lukas emerge through the front door. He stood just outside and was overwhelmed immediately by the small crowd people standing outside. I heard the questions being hurled in his direction.
    "What's happening?"
    "Who's going to replace the sheriff?"
    "It seems like ever since you've come into town, things of just gone to hell."
    It felt like panic and anarchy were about to take over. But the amazing thing to me wasn't that at all once I thought about it. It was that people were looking to Lukas for the answers to the questions at all. When had that happened? He'd only been the alpha for a little more than a day. But suddenly people were looking up to him. People wanted answers from him. It was funny how quickly things could change.
    Lukas's eyes met mine across the tops of the people's heads in between us. I could see something there that signaled home to me. Strength. He might not know what was going on, but Lukas was