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stick was still pressing into Jake’s ribs. He turned just his head. Just enough to see me. “Say that again. He’s your what?”
    “This scraggly mutt is my mate. I need your help.”
    “Fuck.”
    “Yup. That sums it up well.”

Chapter Four
    Dragging a mammoth, six-foot-plus hybrid through the woods is not something I recommend in surface-of-the-sun temperatures. Being sweaty and topless is much less sexy than one would think. It sure didn’t feel sexy. The only hiccup was when my nipples skated across Jake’s arm as I dragged him. Then other things involving being sweaty and topless would jump into my brain.
    It was too bad Jake was unconscious and Doc was with us. Or maybe that was a good thing. Either way, we were able to get Jake to a safe house. It was a small cabin surrounded by nothing. There had been a few Bigfoot sightings in the area from local hunters, but I didn’t think it was likely that Sasquatch and weres and vamps all shared this territory. Then again, I had been wrong before.
    “Are you sure you didn’t kill him?” Doc asked.
    “Yup.”
    Doc poked him again.
    I pulled a shirt out of my size bin in the safe house stash and tossed it over my head. Times like this, I envied the bra wearers of the world. My nipples were threatening to bust through my shirt and attack Jake for me if I didn’t do it myself. There was no point in covering the evidence of my arousal. Surely, Doc could smell me from the next block over.
    The pheromones poured off me. That’s how I could tell Jake hadn’t gone to the big dog park in the sky. I wouldn’t have nipples of steel if he was gone. I’d have been on the floor bawling like a five-year-old who’d just watched her pony get eaten by a bear.
    “So this was what the third degree was about?” Doc walked a restless circle around the small conversation area in front of the natural stone fireplace.
    “Yup.” I cocked my head and watched the bundle of trouble fate had thrown at me as Doc continued his checklist of obvious.
    “He’s a hybrid.”
    “Yup.” I sat myself down on the chair next to where Jake dozed. Watching his chest rise and fall was better than porn. His shirt was in tatters, and I wanted to rip the remnants off his body.
    “You know what will happen to you if you do what you are obviously wanting to do to that boy.”
    “Not really sure what the Council would do with our internal organs. Do you think they would burn them or feed them to some stock animals to add insult to our deaths?” My sarcasm escalates with my stress level. Both were running heavy right now.
    The man who long ago had come to be like a second father to me leaned against the fireplace. I could tell he was wary to let Jake leave his sight. His stance might have looked relaxed to a human, but I knew his wolf was rumbling below the surface.
    “I’m glad you have a sense of humor about this, because you’ll need it when you’re running for your life.”
    “I do what I can.”
    A grunt from the couch set both of us in motion. Why I moved toward him, while the man I called to help protect me backed up, I couldn’t tell you. Note to self. Ask Doc for medical advice. Not protection.
    “What hit me?”
    “You ran into a pillar while gazing at my amazing rack.” He closed his eyes and put his hand over what had to be one hell of a headache. “Well, you were in a wolfy rage and trying to mate with me at any rate.”
    “The pain should keep the wolf at bay for a bit, but I’m not sure how fast his particular hybrid mix will heal him, so if we want a rational conversation we need to have it fast.” Doc didn’t look like the almighty protector I had called for. Doc was a man ready to bolt at a moment’s notice. I was glad he had come for moral support, but I was wishing he had a bit more fight in him at the moment.
    “What is our best course of action here, Doc? How can we get him under his own control the fastest?”
    My traitorous hand began stroking Jake’s side,