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door and got inside, slapping the lock into place. Had someone truly
been out there in the woods? Hell. Old fear crept inside her as a lump formed
in her throat. She tried to push it away. “Ivan’s in jail. I need to just calm
down.” Too bad her pep talk wasn’t working.
     
    Luken took off into the brush, tracking the scent of the
human male he’d caught. His cock throbbed in his jeans, but any threat to
Julie’s safety outweighed the needs of his body. As he’d held her and prayed
for control over his instincts, the wind had shifted. The smell of human male
laced heavily with anger reeked. Quickly he’d remembered Julie staring in this
direction when he’d approached her. She might only be human, but he couldn’t
rule out the possibility that she had sensed something. If someone was out here
watching her he would damn well find them and deliver them an ass kicking they
wouldn’t soon forget.
    He turned to the left, following the trail. He didn’t like
leaving Julie back there in that parking lot alone, but he had to see if he
could catch whomever it was who had been watching them. Possessiveness reared
up inside him. The sighs and moans Julie had released for him were private—his.
Her passion wasn’t something he wanted others to witness. He knew better than
to take things that far in the open, but damn if she wasn’t a little temptress.
It seemed he quickly forgot the head on his shoulders when she was around.
    He had planned to invite her for coffee. A totally human
thing to do. He’d wanted to get to know her and maybe find out a few things
about her family situation. He hadn’t planned for things to turn so sexual so
fast. But the sight of her wrapped in his jacket, their scents mixed and
mingled on the material had driven him nuts. It made him think of his scent on
her skin as their bodies rubbed against each other. He wanted that—wanted to
see her passion-flushed nude body smelling of his as he took her nice and slow.
But he had no right to her if he couldn’t bring her into his pack. It wouldn’t
be fair to fuck with her emotions like that. But damn, her lilac scent laced
with the honey sweetness that appeared when she was turned-on called to him on
a primal level. He couldn’t keep his hands off her when she intoxicated him
with her scent. But he had no right to feel so possessive of her. She wasn’t
his—might not ever be.
    The scent grew stronger as he pushed through the foliage
that lined the ground beneath the dense canopy of trees. His gaze landed on an
area that had been trampled near a large tree trunk. He took in the smells
surrounding him and determined this was where the human had been hiding.
    His gaze panned the area looking for any sign of him, but he
found none. The man must have made a run for it before Luken had darted off
into the woods. If only the wind had shifted earlier, then he might have had a
chance at discovering the identity of their Peeping Tom. He committed the man’s
scent to memory, making a note to hang out in the bar a few times this week and
see if he could catch the scent. He’d also question Julie to see if there was
any reason someone might be following her.
    Luken turned and headed back toward the parking lot. It
didn’t take him long to spot Julie, sitting in her car and peering out the
window. He also didn’t miss the relaxation in her facial muscles that told him
she was relieved to see him again. She opened the driver’s side car door as he
stepped over the curb and onto the dark asphalt.
    Julie hugged herself as she looked at Luken. “Did you find
someone?”
    He shook his head. “What were you looking at when I came up
behind you and frightened you?”
    She looked at the ground a moment then back at him.
“Nothing…I just felt like someone was watching me. What made you run into the
woods?”
    He couldn’t explain the scent he caught. Not without
explaining a lot of other things he didn’t even want to go into right now. “I
thought I