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right for the whole town to pay the price while the two of you pussyfoot around. Just fuck him. While you still can. He’s a fantastic lay – you won’t regret it.”
    “Doesn’t that make you jealous?” Ainsley heard herself ask.
    Cressida drew back. She seemed surprised to be asked.
    “Erik and I are friends. And we help each other out sometimes. Just like you and me.” Cressida made and held eye contact with Ainsley a little too long and Ainsley felt her cheeks go red again.
    “But at the end of the day, no, he’s not my boyfriend.”
    “Oh.”
    “But thanks for asking. Hos before bros, huh?”
    Ainsley grinned. Then she thought of something.
    “What makes you think it would work anyway?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “I mean, after what you and I did yesterday… nothing happened. And I tried to draw Clive’s alpha last night but nothing happened then either. Why do you think it would happen with Erik?”
    “Are you kidding me?”
    Ainsley bit her lip and waited.
    “You are the two most fucked up people I ever met. The whole alpha thing is about choosing a mate for life. You didn’t care about Clive. You and I were only having some fun. But you’re clearly head over heels for Erik.”
    Ainsley could have tried to argue. But what was the use? Erik was the total package and while she couldn’t exactly say she was in love with him, she knew that she was grateful to him and she wanted him badly. Erik, on the other hand, didn’t seem to be interested. The way he’d hopped out of bed this morning, he probably wasn’t really even attracted to her. He’d just felt sorry for her.
    “I don’t think he wants that with me,” Ainsley said sadly.
    Cressida rolled her eyes.
    “How did you end up here last night?”
    “Well, I was running away from Clive in the woods and suddenly there was Erik.”
    “What was Erik doing in the woods?”
    “Um…” She hadn’t thought of that.
    “I feel like maybe I’m making this too easy for you guys,” Cressida sighed dramatically.
    Ainsley clenched her fists and waited. Finally Cressida continued.
    “Last night I stopped by here. Erik was pacing holes in the floor because he had seen Clive’s truck in your driveway. I asked him what he was doing here and, a fucking light bulb went on in his dim head and he took off to stop you.”
    Ainsley was dumbstruck for a moment.
    “So…so… He knew Clive was going to hurt me?”
    “No, you moron , he was going to stop you because he loves you and he wants you for himself.”
    Ainsley’s heart leapt.
    “Then why doesn’t he want to…?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “I don’t know, never mind,” Ainsley said, turning away.
    “I insist.”
    Cressida was crawling closer, her face brimming with curiosity.
    Ainsley threw a wet rag at her. Cressida swiped it out of the air and kept coming.
    “Nothing. I didn’t mean anything.”
    “Did you try your sexy alpha thing on him?” Cressida asked, fascinated.
    “Well, no, but something was happening and then he just…stopped.”
    “Next time don’t let him stop!” Cressida advised her sarcastically
    Ainsley rolled her eyes.
    “You can roll your eyes, but people’s lives are at stake, Connor. It’s time for you to man up and do what has to be done.”
    Cressida leapt to her feet in a single motion and headed for the door.
    “Cressida!”
    “Yeah?”
    “Don’t worry. I’ve got this.”
    Cressida grinned at her like a pirate.
    “That’s the spirit, Connor. You might just get through this alive after all.”
    The screen door banged like a gunshot and Cressida was gone.

CHAPTER 7
    A  insley was still kneeling on the floor, scrubbing the baseboard and mulling over Cressida’s visit when she heard a car pull up. She jumped to her feet, expecting it might be Erik, home early.
    Instead she saw a police car. A wave of cold panic washed over her. It must be Clive. Where were Erik’s patrolling wolves? She knew she should hide but she was frozen in fear.
    When Grace