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When Scarlett heard a knock at her door, she assumed it was Sienna. She assumed it with such confidence that she didn’t bother to engage her senses.

"Come on in, Chick," she shouted from her bed, laying on her front to scroll through her usual websites while talking to a couple of randomers in chat rooms. She liked to talk to people she wouldn’t normally meet since travelling wasn’t allowed.

"Oh," she cried, rolling over and sitting up when Riley popped his head around the door.

"Chick?" he asked with a lopsided grin.

"I thought you were Sienna," Scarlett said and giggled, feeling her cheeks turn pink. Once she got her wolf, her sense of smell would be good enough to sniff him through the door without any effort, but for now she could only get small ‘nosefulls’ as he wafted about the room.

The scent of him made her fingers tingle. It was a strange reaction but one she couldn’t control.

"Oh, your friend Sienna is otherwise engaged," Riley said, making an odd face. A face that made her