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scent made him feel. It seemed to wrap around his insides and squeeze. His balls ached more every time he drew breath into his lungs. It felt as though someone had put his scrotum in a vise and tightened it down every time he scented or thought about her, which had been nearly every moment since his wrist healed.
    “I should have asked one of them to shoot me,” he complained as he started to undress in a small clearing. He folded his clothes into as small a bundle as he could and crammed them into the pack, then fastened it loosely about his neck.
    If he had had one of them injure him, just a little, perhaps he would find a way to concentrate on locating the woman for the pack instead of finding her because she gave him a raging hard-on.
    “It’s a damned shame when you contemplate having someone shoot you just so you can keep your mind off a woman.” He shook his head and prepared to change into his wolf.
    How in the hell would he ever live it down if his brother found out about this? How many times had he ragged on Galen about sniffing after females? And here he was going in search for one who had bitten his wrist, her teeth sinking to the bone. Hell, from what he could see, she wasn’t even nice. He paused with a smile. She might not be nice, but she sure as hell was nice looking and she didn’t smell bad either.
    Stooping low, he concentrated on the change. His bones popped and snapped as some shrank and others elongated. The short stubble on his chin turned to fur with the longer whiskers of his lupine self. Muscles grew smaller, more compact as he continued to concentrate on his other half until there was nothing left of him, but his wolf.
    Kalen stuck his nose in the air and sniffed. He scented nothing yet, but then he hadn’t expected to. Turning East, he headed back toward Michigan and the woman he couldn’t seem to forget no matter how hard he tried.
    One thing was certain. As soon as he found the woman, he was showering her smell from his body and taking the first mode of transportation away from her. She was dangerous to his bachelorhood. He could feel it.

Chapter Three
    Ally ran through the woods as fast as she could. She stumbled over her feet at first, but as strange as it was, it didn’t take long to get used to running on four legs instead of two. She fought the urge to keep looking back. That was always the first mistake of women in trouble in the movies. They constantly looked back and usually ended up tripping over something in their hurry to escape whatever monster, or villain that chased them.
    There was no way she would make that mistake. If someone followed her, it was best to keep looking forward while running as fast as she could away from them.
    Low tree branches and brush slapped her face and eyes as she ran past. Her lungs ached with exertion and her legs felt like jelly. Still, she knew she must keep moving. There was no doubt in her mind that the others would follow her.
    Where she headed was anyone’s guess. Ally hoped it was home. Now that she was an animal, wouldn’t she have an instinct for that sort of thing? Stopping near a stream to catch her breath, she eyed the water wistfully. She may be a dog, but she wasn’t thirsty enough to drink untested water.
    Dream or not, reality or not, she had to have her standards. She trotted across the stream and scared a rabbit from its hiding place. The animal couldn’t know she wouldn’t eat it, no matter how hungry she was, or how tempted.
    Ally dropped her clothes on top of pine needles and leaves, then plopped down to rest. She knew she couldn’t stay long, but the niggling pain she felt while she ran grew stronger. Her stomach cramped and her paws ached. No matter how badly she needed to run, Ally didn’t think she was going anywhere anytime soon.
    If what she suspected was true, she was about to change back into a human and the only thing she had to wear were her practically non-existent panties and her waist length t-shirt. What