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don’t know what to do, Doc.” Not like he did either. “I just wanted to make you aware of the situation. I thought we were working together.” I had another twenty minutes until my date, but I started for the door anyway.
    Perhaps dimple defect boy would get a little more than a nip on the neck tonight. He wasn’t as flawless as the men in front of me, but he had a penis. I needed one. If I was reacting like this, I needed one badly.
    “Shelly?”
    I stopped my feet and turned as I reached for the door handle. “Yes?”
    “Meet us back here at two AM. We have some things to discuss. I want to do a little digging, but we need a meeting that isn’t so publicly known.” The Alpha of the Paulson Pack put his hands behind his neck. The man had abs for days. “I have lost a lot of Pack members. I don’t need the ones I have left distrusting me for meeting with a perceived enemy.”
    Right. Even being responsible for rescuing some of members of this Pack wasn’t enough to get them to trust me. I took another drink from my bottle. I shouldn’t be upset. They had been abandoned by their leaders. The one Alakin Pack leader I’d let out of that clearing alive had run to my father. It would be a stretch for them to be sure I wasn’t involved somehow.
    My eyes lowered. I wasn’t one to back down, but wolves have this thing where the beast inside of them responds better when you lower your gaze.
    It also let me see the cell phone sticking out of Rick’s pocket. I grabbed for it and forced myself not to notice the bulge beside it. My fingers danced over his phone. I found his number on the device and programed mine in his contacts.
    He looked over the screen. “Barbie?”
    I smiled. “A little nickname from my sister-in-law.”

Chapter Two
    Rick
    It took effort to keep my feet in place as Shelly left the building. I wanted to follow her. No, that wasn’t it. I wanted to hunt her. I wanted her in the woods and on her back. I took a step.
    Sheer determination stopped me. Blocking off my own desires from the rest of my Pack was something I had perfected over the years. Nothing was as important as taking care of those who needed me. You would think with my daughter out on her own and no longer causing trouble in the Pack, my stress level would have gone down. It might have had she not uncovered a blood harvesting ring while she was running from a homicidal vampire.
    My daughter wasn’t boring. Neither was Shelly.
    Shelly Meyers.
    One roll in the woods was supposed to be a distraction. It wasn’t supposed to send my wolf into a frenzy. I’d smelled my Beta’s scent on her for fuck’s sake, and my wolf hadn’t cared. Didn’t that mean the encounter was purely superficial?
    Doc wiped down the equipment before we both headed for the door. The man cleaned to calm down. Our fucking apartment building had been powerwashed yesterday. I needed to get this situation under control or the man would start washing behind my ears for me next.
    I’d just change the subject. “Did you see that someone broke into the children’s hospital and completed Mary’s mural? Shelly said she hasn’t heard from the Hart Clan, but something tells me Mary had a hand in that painting.”
    It was strange not being connected to my daughter through Pack magic anymore. We had agreed to sever contact when it became obvious we were being watched. Part of me had wondered if the disappearing members of our Pack had something to do with Matheo Meyers. I didn’t talk about my daughter with anyone now. Her safety was more important than my missing her. Doc and I talked, but not often.
    “I think we might have another situation.” Doc’s words hit the empty walls of the hallway as we walked out of the pavilion.
    I looked to my Beta. He was too damn perceptive, although no one needed wolf senses to see the attraction that pinged between myself and Shelly. I needed to remember to wear underwear under the gym shorts if spicy female visitors kept