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following us. Right after he parked the car, he said: Whatever happens here tonight…do not let them take it. I asked him what he meant. He threw me in the trunk and told me not to get out until it was over. I heard another car pull up next to the garage and footsteps. I thought I was going to die. They were coming…”
    There was dead silence in the room and Aiden regarded her with a desolate expression on his face. “How many came?”
    “There were two. The man and the wolf.”
    “But only one of his killers has been found.”
    She took a deep breath, and released it to ease some of her tension. “Exactly.”
    “Didn’t the killers know you were there?”
    She shook her head. “There was a slit in the trunk wide enough for me to see most everything. The man ordered the wolf to go look for it . The wolf broke inside the home, and the man pillaged through the garage, but did not think to check the trunk. He was either too stupid or concerned with other things—like whatever they were looking for in this house. By that time, the housekeepers had woken up and heard the mess and called the police. They got away, escaping through the woods behind the shed. The car they used to get here was stolen.”
    “You told the cops the same story?” he asked.
    “Of course. They think I’m crazy when I tell them it was a wolf. Given the circumstances under which Jamison and I married, they even believed that I had him killed.”
    Aiden raised an eyebrow. “Under what circumstances?”
    “Jamison and I were in a marriage of convenience. He needed to be the first to marry out of his three brothers to inherit the Ellis conglomerate after his father announced retirement, and I needed to save my family’s home and lands from falling into foreclosure,” she said, leaning her back against the chair. “It was never meant to last as long as it did. Three months was what we’d agreed until either of us could file for divorce, but then we both got comfortable. Jamison promised me things that I had only dreamed about. And I promised him loyalty and companionship. He’d probably approached other women before me with this proposition, but to no avail. His age wasn’t an issue to me, and he knew that from the beginning.”
    Aiden was sitting straight up in his chair, listening contently.
    She continued. “My dad began to despise Jamison, saying that he stole an only daughter and reneged on the terms of the agreement. Jamison and I became good friends, a fact that others failed to realize. You can grow to love someone, even if you’re not romantically involved. I loved Jamison, but he was not my lover. That was something Jamison and I had in common. I didn’t want to go back to my old ways. I wanted to move forward. I wanted to learn how to run a business. I had dreams of becoming more than the town seamstress that I once was when Jamison and I first met. Contrary to popular belief, I would never betray him. Although, I don’t know exactly what I promised him the night of his murder, I pledged never to break it.”
    “I’m beginning to understand you now, although, I wish I had known this s ooner,” Aiden said. “I wish I had known everything sooner.”
    “I need to find out what Jamison wanted to keep away from them. Is it too late now? I wish he’d said what it was.” Her shoulders slumped. “Was it this estate? Was it something else? Something tangible? His business?”
    “ I don’t have those answers. How long do you have until you move out?”
    “I don’t kn—”
    Before Keira could finish her sentence, she was stopped short when a commotion broke out down the hall. They both rose from their chairs.

Chapter Five                            
     
    Aiden pulled his gun from the holster tucked inside his jacket and urged Keira to remain behind him. She was equally as eager to see what had caused such an uproar at the front door. His duty, as her mate and bodyguard, was to protect her.
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