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arms.
    “I can tell. Damn. You three have been busy.
I didn’t even know three could mate.”
    “Neither did we.”
    “Gonna pass out again. I need to heal.
Though….”
    “What?”
    “I need to get back to the clanholding.” Taggert’s
head lolled back.
    “Taggert!”
    “My car’s a wreck. The Hagalaz asshole
destroyed it before I took him out.”
    “Which clanholding?”
    “Rockford.”
    Jake and Kyle both swore. “That’s a five hour
drive, assuming we bend the law by approaching the speed of light.”
    “Sorry.” Taggert passed out again.
    “It is what it is.” Jake said, though when he
looked at Kyle he knew his friend had very different thoughts on the matter.
But, Kyle had past history with Taggert when his family had lived in the
Rockford clanholding. “He is bleeding a lot.”
    “Nothing we can do about it if we can’t get
him to a shaman.”
    “Let’s let him rest for a bit and see if we
can rouse him. If he is healed up enough in a half hour, he’ll survive the
drive.”
    Kyle grunted and began cleaning up the mess
of desserts and putting them into the fridge.
    Eventually Jake roused Taggert again. “Taggert,
where is your car?”
    “Safe. Hidden,” he wheezed.
    “And the body?”
    “Hidden. Hard to describe where.” Taggert
blinked, and Jake could tell he was having trouble focusing. “Good news for you
though.”
    “How’s that?” Kyle asked.
    “The Hagalaz gunning for you are dead.”
    “What?”
    “Some Hagalaz wolves hired out to a Faerie
lord. I overheard him say the Fae used them for cannon fodder.”
    Jake’s eyebrows went up. “Well, that was
anticlimactic.”
    “I’m not complaining,” Kyle said.
    Jake sighed. “I think you’re ok to travel. We’ll
make good time driving at night and we can be there by morning. If we hurry, we
can be back here by tomorrow night.”
    “We would still have a day left with Ellie.”
    Taggert snorted. “She has you two
puppy-whipped, doesn’t she?”
    “Kind of. We don’t really mind.”
    “You’d really like it. Being puppy-whipped.
Too bad you aren’t mated.”
    “Ouch, Kyle.” Taggert leaned back. “I hate
gut wounds.” He closed his eyes again.
     
    ~* * *~
     
    Ellie was still blushing when Kyle poked his
head into the bedroom. “Sweetheart, you ok?”
    “I will be.” Ellie stood with her back to
Kyle as she toweled off her hair. It was bad enough that Jake and Kyle could
smell her when she was turned on. Though she was of course aware that any
shifter had the same heightened senses, she was fully unprepared to be teased
about it. Being cranky about their interrupted lovemaking wasn’t really helping
her mood any.
    “Sorry to get you all excited and have to
stop in the middle. Taggert is a member of our pack and we need to get him back
to the clanholding in Rockford.”
    “Isn’t that where you grew up?” Ellie turned
to face Kyle.
    “When I was younger, yeah. We didn’t move to
the Bloomington clanholding until I was a teenager. That’s when I met Jake.” Kyle
came into the room, shutting the door. “Taggert was one of the reasons we
left.”
    “Why?”
    Kyle rubbed at his neck in that way that let
her know he was uncomfortable, even if she couldn’t feel the vague unease
through their mating bond. “There were a few wolves at Rockford who were
consistently jackasses. It’s complicated pack dynamics. My parents didn’t want to
put up with him. None of them are bad people, really. But they can be jerks.”
    “That really sucks.”
    “If Jake and I hurry, we can be there by
morning and back here by tomorrow night.”
    Ellie’s stomach did a nauseating flip at the
thought of them leaving. “I haven’t really seen either of you in weeks.”
    “I know. I’m sorry, this is shitty timing.
Why don’t you stay here and rest up. You’ve had such a long semester, I know
you’re tired.” He caressed her wet hair.
    Suddenly Ellie couldn’t stop the tears from
spilling out of her eyes.
    Kyle’s