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The desire to keep his mate safe gave him renewed strength. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t manage to reach the ferals before his enemies prepared their weapons once again. However, he did take them by surprise, and this element gave him the ability to dodge their bullets. This time, he was ready. This time, he wouldn’t allow them to shoot him down.
    The man went down first, Trent’s weight sending him crashing to the ground. He turned into his wolf form, trying to dislodge Trent, but his maneuver just managed to make him more vulnerable to Trent’s attack. Carefully avoiding the feral’s fangs, Trent tore into the other wolf’s throat savagely. He took just one second to do so, then jumped back. Just in time, too, because an instant later, bullets showered over the first feral. Intending to hit Trent, the woman killed her companion instead. She cursed, dropped her gun, and shifted as well, obviously intending to flee. Ferals couldn’t hope to win against experienced hunters, not in a fair fight. Spirit wolves kept a strong hold on their inner beast, and this control allowed them to channel an energy ferals couldn’t reach.
    She didn’t make it far. Trent had no qualms in taking down a feral, even if she did belong to the fairer sex. She represented just as much a danger as any man.
    He took care of his last enemy with a fair amount of ease. When he finally shifted into his human form, a sense of weariness took hold of him. He wished things could have been different. These people, these ferals, were, in the end, closely bonded to his kin. If only the spirit wolves could find a cure for the feral madness. But all their research had been for naught. So far, the only way to stave off a fully fledged massacre of the humans at the hands of the ferals had been to wipe out the source itself.
    And yet Drew effectively helped him defeat the feral virus. Of course, the spirit wolf immune system had, in the end, won the battle, but without Drew, it might not have gotten the chance to fight back.
    The thought reminded him of his mate, and he turned back toward the clinic, intending to check on Drew. As he did so, however, he saw Drew standing beyond the shattered windows, staring at him with disbelief and terror. His heart fell at the realization that not only had the situation become even more complicated, but Trent may have also lost his mate before he’d even gotten the chance to have him.

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    Drew couldn’t believe his eyes. The wolf he’d rescued from the river bank somehow turned out to be a man, a sexy man who turned Drew on like nobody’s business, and who’d just killed two other wolf-people in front of Drew’s home.
    He’d been mystified upon seeing the strange naked man in his house, coming out of the examination room out of all things. It didn’t help that this stranger claimed the little work he’d managed to do in one night put him in danger. He’d intended to ask so many things, to understand what the man intended, and preferably, why in the world he made Drew feel like a teenager with his first crush.
    His explanation had come in the most vivid way imaginable, and seeing the naked man turn into the injured wolf from the night before blew Drew’s mind. The shock made him swoon, and he landed into Dan’s arms. “What the fuck?” Dan shouted, illustrating Drew’s feelings perfectly.
    The wolfman—wolfman?—moved so fast Drew’s eyes couldn’t even follow him. In a flash, he reached their side and pulled Drew away from Dan. Warm arms went around Drew’s torso, strangely comforting and familiar. Drew closed his eyes and allowed himself to melt into the embrace. He didn’t know why he felt so safe in this man’s presence, but he did. So safe, so hot, and young again.
    Mister Tall-Wolf-and-Handsome was everything Drew had ever wanted and given up when Paulie appeared in his life. Chad and Judith would have loved to know about Drew’s homosexuality. It would’ve given them the opportunity to