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put the black stiletto boots on before we land and not a moment sooner. It’ll be a miracle if I can take two steps in them. I haven’t even decided on makeup, except red lips with lots of powder and eyeliner. If sexy was the aim, we’ve missed the target by about fifty feet and landed in the red light district. I feel ridiculous. Crud, it’s time to go.
    This is going to suck so bad—pun intended.
    I zip up my suitcase with a sigh. Why is he doing this? What does he think, I’ll be so wrapped up in our cover that I’ll just fall into his arms? If he puts one hand on me—
    The telephone rings. This is a rare occurrence, since most of the people I now know on this planet live in this house. I only get two calls a week, if that. One from Nana, the other from my best friend, April, and they both called in the past few days. I pick it up. “Hello?”
    “Hello,” says a voice that lets loose every variety of butterfly into my stomach.
    “Oh! Hi!” I say, my voice raising an octave. “How are you? How’s it going? You good?” Stop babbling, Bea.
    “I’m fine,” Will says. “I’m sorry I didn’t call yesterday. How did things go with your brother?”
    He remembered. He called to check on me on his vacation! I am squealing for joy inside, but not outside. Cool is my middle name. I sit on the bed as best as I can in this skirt. “About what I expected. Nasty names, hurt feelings. I should have known better, I don’t know what I was thinking.”
    “You thought he’d act like a brother. As he should have. Nothing wrong with that.”
    “He seemed to think so.” I sigh. “I’ll know better next time. I did sort of deserve it. You know, the whole ‘almost killing him’ thing.”
    “No, you don’t,” he states emphatically. “You have to stop beating yourself up over that. It was an accident. And you’ve made sure it will never happen again. That’s more than most people would do. Focus on that.”
    “I’ll try,” I say with a smile.
    “Still, I wish there was something I could do.”
    Hop on the next flight and ravage me when you walk in the door? My smile widens from cheek to cheek. “That’s sweet, thank you. I’m over it for the most part. You know me, I try not to dwell on things.”
    “I know. It’s one of the things I admire most about you. You’re a good person.” Neither of us says anything for a few seconds. This is standard for almost all our conversations, uncomfortable silences. We’re working on it. We didn’t start with awkwardness, that’s progress. I broke it last time, so it’s his turn now. “Am I missing anything else interesting there?”
    Crud, he just had to ask. Okay, I have two choices. I can tell him about Operation Lovebirds and he’ll either A) dwell on the fact Oliver is leading an operation without him, but do nothing, or B) in a grand romantic gesture, order me not to go and hop on the first flight back to stop me. Either way, it’ll ruin his first vacation in years, and I’ll still have to go. Plus, if he goes with Option A, it could break my heart. On to my second idea. “Nothing. Same old, same old. I’m boring. What about you? Having fun getting in touch with your inner wolf ?”
    “I suppose. I’m learning a lot about …”
    “Your gift?” He hates calling it that as much as I do. As if turning into a wolf against your will, or almost giving your brother a brain aneurysm, is something akin to a bracelet from Tiffany’s. “What have you learned since we last spoke?”
    “I think I have partial transformation down.”
    “What’s that?”
    “If I concentrate hard enough on one part of my body, I can change it from human to wolf and back again.”
    “Wow! Really? Like your hand can become a paw?”
    “Yeah, but it’s getting things back to normal that I have problems with. Yesterday, I spent the whole day walking around with a paw. Everyone acted like it was nothing.”
    “That must be refreshing.”
    “Not really. I’m actually still