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That and a little reluctance to bare his wounds. He didn’t like other people knowing his weaknesses, even his brother and father. He reluctantly skimmed his slacks down. Samuel was frowning even before he’d gotten the bright green wrap cut off. Once he did, he put his nose against it and jerked back. “Who cleaned this out?”“The Chicago pack has a doctor.” There weren’t very many doctors who were werewolves. No one but Samuel as far as he’d known: the Chicago pack’s doctor was one of the new ones Leo had been hiding from the Marrok. Being around all that blood and flesh made it pretty difficult for a werewolf to keep his mind onhealing though he’d never noticed it bothering Samuel.“He was a quack,” growled his brother. “I can smellthe silver from six inches out.”“Poorly schooled in being a wolf,” corrected Toby. “None of Leo’s new wolves know what to do with their noses including Lauren. I doubt he thought to sniff for silver.”“And I am under the impression that he was pretty frig
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“Who is he dreaming of?” Samuel asked.“His dead mate,” Brian said. “She was tortured to death. He won’t speak of it, though I know he feels guilty because he’d been traveling when it happened.He told me he’d quit dreaming of it when he joined our pack but it started again last month. He wakes up disoriented and…sometimes not where he went to sleep.”Dangerous, thought Toby, to have a wolf of the Moor’s powers out and about under its own direction.“You think his death can wait?” asked Samuel.Brian smiled, a real smile. “I think it can wait. We have an Omega to help him.”His father looked at Toby, and the smile broadened to a grin. “She’s not going to leave you for him, Toby, no matter what Asil says to tweak your tail.”Toby’s living room, though expensively decorated, was stil warm and homey, Lauren decided. It just wasn’t her home. She wandered restlessly through the rooms before she finally settled in the bedroom, sitting in a corner on the floor with her legs pulled up, huggin
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“when Toby is here.” The hesitation robbed her statement of much of its strength. Sage smiled, her whole face lighting with delight. “Yes, Leah, why don’t you come back when Toby is here? I’d like to see that.”But Leah wasn’t paying attention to her. Her eyebrows lowered in puzzlement as she stared at Lauren. “Sit down,” she said, her voice low and rich with a power that once more slid over Lauren and did not touch her.Lauren frowned back. “No. Thank you.” She thought of something, and before she could stop herself, she said, “I saw Sage at the funeral, but the Marrok was alone. Why weren’t you beside him?”“He had no business there,” Leah said passionately. “He killed Carter. And nowhe pretends to mourn him? I couldn’t keep him from going. He never listens to me anyway, does he? His sons are his advisors, all I am is a replacement for his lost love, the incomparably beautiful, self-sacrificing, Indian bitch. I can’t stop him, but I won’t support him, either.” By the time she was f
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He couldn’t help smiling at her understatement. “No.”She tucked herself under his arm. “Come on, you’re swaying. Let’s get you to bed before you fall down.”He didn’t mind her help at all. She could even have called him Toby, and he wouldn’t have objected, as long as her side brushed his. She helped him out of his clothes he hadn’t put his suit jacket back on, so it wasn’t too painful. While he got in bed, she pulled down the blinds, shutting out the light.When she started to pull the covers up, he caught her hand.“Stay with me?” he asked. He was too tired for talk, but he didn’t want her alone with whatever his father had noticed was bothering her, either. She froze, and thebscent of her sudden terror tested the control he’d found since his brother had rid him of the last of the silver. There was nothing for him to kill except ghosts, so hecontrolled the surge of protective rage and waited to see what she would do. Hencould have released her hand, and he was ready to do so but on
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Lauren methodically rummaged through the cupboards; Toby was going to wake up hungry. Happily, the man had his house stocked for a siege. She thought about Italian she had gotten rather good at cooking Italian foodbut she didn’t know if Toby liked it. Stew seemed a safer choice. The chest freezer in the basement was fullof meat wrapped in white freezer paper, neatly labeled. Shebbrought up a package proclaiming itself to be elk stew meat to begin thawing on the counter. She’d never eaten elk before but assumed that stew meat was stewmeat. In the fridge she found carrots, onions, and celery. Now all she needed were potatoes. They weren’t in the fridge or on the counters; they weren’t on top of the fridge or under the sink. Anyone as well stocked as Toby was bound to have potatoes somewhere unless he hated potatoes. She was bent over with her head in a lower cupboard singing softly, “Where oh where have my little potatoes gone,” when the sound of a cell phone made her jerk her head up
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Brian leaned back in his chair and sighed. “If a forest ranger comes out and claims he was attacked by a werewolf an experienced, respected man like Heather’s Jack people are going to listen. And, before she clammed up,Heather told me that he’s a forthright man. If he thinks that there’s a danger to others, he’s going to trumpet the news as loudly as he can no matter how crazy that truth sounds.”Toby met his father’s eyes. Another time, they might just have been able to let it go. If they killed the problem wolf and there were no more deaths, any fire that the ranger built would go out for lack of fuel. But his father believed that they were going to have to reveal themselves to the public soon within months.They couldn’t afford bad publicity. To give himself time to see if there was a good way out of the dilemma, Toby asked, “How did she manage to get him out?” He knew the Cabinets. This time of year a lot of the mountain range was snowshoe or four-footed travel only. Heather wasn
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There was no give in his father once he’d decided on the proper course, and everyone who tried to stand in his way would be knocked aside as easily as bowling pins. Toby disliked being a bowling pin. Mutely, he stared at his father. The old bard smiled a little. “Fine,” said Toby in English. “Fine.”She raised her chin. “I’l try not to slow you down.” And he felt as if she’d hit him in the stomach; he’d managed to make her feelunwanted, which hadn’t been his intent at all. He had no gift for words, but he tried to mend things anyway.“I am not worried that you’ll slow me down,” he told her. “Dad’s right. With this leg, I’m not going to be breaking any speed records. This isn’t going to be fun, not in those mountains in winter.”He didn’t want her to see him kill again. Sometimes it was alright, and they fought him, like Leo had fought. But sometimes they cried and begged. And he still had to kill them.“Alright,” Lauren said. The tightness in her voice told him that he hadn’t undone
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On one of the doors, the bar was in use. Whoever was in it had been making noise until they stepped out into the hall. Then he dropped into utter silence, and she could feel him listening to them as they walked by.She might have asked Toby about it, but his face didn’t invite questions. She couldn’t tell if he was mad at her or just thinking. Either way, she didn’t want to bother him. She had already annoyed him enough. She should have told him that she would stay behind. But that would have meant he would go alone, wounded, to face some unknown rogue. His father seemed to think he could take care of himself, but he hadn’t been there yesterday when Toby had been too hurt to move without help.If Toby decided he didn’t want her, what would she do?There was a friendlier door at the end of the hall no locks or bars. But as they approached it she heard the sound of an explosion.“Hoo yah,” someone said with fierce appreciation. Toby opened the door without knocking. Lauren had a quick i
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