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didn’t understand it. She’d never been afraid of anyone or anything. Even when she’d been attacked in the forest, she’d screamed like a banshee and fought with her claws. And any guy who tried to get fresh in a bar ended up on the sparkly end of a Taser.
    So why was she so nervous just at the thought of seeing the incomparably hairy man?
    She didn’t know.
    She showered, blow-dried her hair into curly, tight ringlets, and pulled her hair back off her face with a hair band. Then she threw on a loose, curve-grazing tee with a fun graphic and a pair of skinny jeans she knew did amazing things for her size-eighteen curves.
    Then she slipped into some cute ankle boots and slid on a few bangles and was ready to go.
    She took a deep breath and put her hand on the doorknob just as a loud ruckus broke out somewhere in the lodge beneath her. It sounded like it was coming from the main dining room, which made sense, as it was the biggest, most open space in the lodge. She took the stairs two at a time in her haste to see what was happening.
    When she got there, the scene unfolding in front of her had her standing still in shock, looking at her friends from multiple doorways away, without any of them aware she was there.
    She bit back a grin as she realized the loudest, angriest voice was Maverick.
    “Calm down and let me finish!” That was Ruby.
    “She’s doing you a favor. Trust me.” That was Bonnie.
    “Can we look yet?” That was Shane.
    “Yeah, I want to see if it’s actually an improvement.” That sounded like Jesse.
    All of them sounded vaguely amused, except Maverick.
    “You’re taking too much! You’re going to make me into a woman!” he growled, trying to get up out of the chair as Shane came around and shoved him back down, still keeping his eyes averted.
    “You stop struggling. This has been a long time coming, and my mate is doing you a damn favor.”
    Maverick grumbled something unintelligible that Harmony couldn’t make out.
    But one thing she could make out—Maverick was getting a shave and a haircut. They’d set up a chair in the corner of the dining room farthest from the kitchen, to be safe, and dark hair littered the ground around the chair on which the tall man was perched, looking uncomfortable.
    She wished she could see his face at this moment. Maverick was never the one feeling awkward. He was the one who made others feel awkward.
    She had a feeling the others in the room with him were enjoying this turn of events.
    “There!” Ruby said, swiping the black cape off him and brushing hair off her hands. “Ta-da!”
    All Harmony could see was Maverick’s tall, wide shape standing to face everyone as Shane and Jesse and Bonnie all turned to survey Ruby’s work.
    Shane and Jesse stopped laughing. Bonnie’s smirk was replaced by open-mouthed shock. Maverick looked from face to face, then shot a hand out toward Ruby.
    “Mirror,” he commanded.
    Ruby shrugged and handed one over, and when Maverick held it up to his face, Harmony got a glimpse of the man in the mirror.
    And nearly fell to her knees.
    Good gracious. He was gorgeous .
    He growled as he stared at the man in the mirror, who was blindingly handsome. Harmony prepared herself for the cocky onslaught of overconfidence that was sure to result from him realizing how good-looking he was under all that fur.
    Everyone else in the room was certainly speechless from it.
    Then the mirror hit the ground and shattered.
    “Mav!” Jesse yelled. “That was my mirror.”
    “You turned me into a woman!” Mav snarled, hands clenching tight at his sides. “You weren’t supposed to take all of it!” his hands came up to his cheeks, feeling his skin as if it were a foreign substance. “You’ve stolen my manhood!”
    Bonnie folded over laughing, holding her arm around her middle.
    “Um, no,” Jesse said. “That would be your dick.”
    Mav put a hand over himself. “Hell no.”
    “No,” Jesse corrected. “Manhood means your