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number.
    “Every time you ask me to trust
you, I end up regretting it.”
    Riley pressed the last button and
turned his head slowly to look Vittorio in the eye. “You make it sound like I’m
always getting you in trouble.”
    “Aren’t you?” Vittorio retorted.
Riley and Vittorio were best friends. And best friends didn’t lie to one
another. The truth was Riley had the ability to get him, simple, steadfast
Vittorio into the worst kinds of trouble.
    Secretly, Vittorio was thankful
for that.
    Riley shrugged one mountainous
shoulder in answer before returning his attention to the task at hand. He
pressed another button and the familiar sound of the phone dialling rang
through the air. Riley had placed the call on speakerphone. “Hi, Rikard,” he
said. “I’ve got something important to ask you,” he continued before Rikard
could respond to the greeting.
    “What is it now, Riley?” Rikard
growled in exasperation.
    Vittorio understood what the wolf
was feeling. Rikard was Riley’s older brother and had been forced time and time
again to get him and Riley out of the situations they usually found themselves
in.
    Tonight wasn’t going to be any
different, Vittorio thought.
    Quickly Riley informed his
brother of all that happened, paying particular attention to each and every
detail about the woman who claimed to be looking for the Wolf’s Cock and
Tiger’s Phallus.
    “Did you search her?” Rikard
asked, cutting Riley off in the middle of his sentence.
    Vittorio sat up a little straighter.
There was an urgency to Rikard’s words that the older wolf rarely used.
    “No,” Riley admitted slowly.
    “Damn it,” Rikard cursed. “Did it
not occur to you that it would have been impossible for a woman wearing that
outfit with those shoes to hop over the gate?”
    Riley glanced at Vittorio with
wide eyes. They’d missed the obvious. Probably because they’d both been staring
too hard at Amelia, wondering what she would look like naked, to think.
    “Search her. Search every inch of
her. And her basket too. Don’t call back until you find out what’s she’s really
there for.”
    “I’ve got to go,” Riley absently
muttered into the phone before lowering the receiver. Just before the phone
call ended the low sound of Rikard’s growl cut through the air.
    “Shit,” Vittorio cursed savagely
as he ran a hand through his hair.
    Rikard was the coolest wolf he
knew. If the older shifter was getting anxious there was a real problem at
hand.
    “You want to bet there is
something they’re not telling us?” Riley threw over his shoulder as he headed
towards the exit.
    Vittorio had been thinking along
the same lines. The higher-ups in all three families tended to keep secrets on
a need- to- know basis, regardless of whether the information was personal or
business related. Because of that, those at the bottom of the chain tended to
find themselves dealing with shit because they had only half of the needed
information. “Yeah, I suggest we get back to that woman and find out why she’s
really here.”
    Both men hadn’t taken more than
three steps into the hall when Vittorio realised something was wrong. The
woman’s scent was faint.
    As though she’d already left the
vicinity.
    Shit!
    Riley took off, running through
the short hall. Vittorio started to follow Riley when it occurred to him both
men would be too much manpower to take down one human female. Almost at the
last moment, just before Riley would have ran out of the exit, he yelled, ”Remember
she’s human. You can’t shift.”

    The reminder pounded through
Riley’s mind with every step he took. Remember she’s human. You can’t shift.
You can’t shift, he thought as his quickly pumping legs ate up the space that
separated him from the human female.
    He darted around a corner, pulse
pounding, and spotted her several feet away from him. He paused for a moment
and simply took in the sight. The night sky was bright with the full, silvery
moon. It shone