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your mate’s pack, and then with Leo, another wolf in our pack.  Your wolf is ready to stretch her legs now that you’re home, Cinder.  You just have to let go and trust Adam to help you.”
    Her home?  Her mate?  Her wolf?  Defiance crept through her even as her wolf growled in agreement.  “If I refuse?  If I pack up tonight and leave town?”
    “First of all, you’re not leaving until tomorrow morning.  Second of all, you’re not going to get very far.  The mate-call is a powerful thing.  It’s meant to secure a mating, to bind the two together so they can begin their new life.”
    “I don’t accept this.”  She shook her head.  “I want my life to go back the way it was.”
    He moved to the bed and picked up her right arm, carefully peeling away the layer of bandages, revealing four angry scratches across the meat of her bicep.  “You reacted badly because you are allergic to the venom in Cyrus’s claws.  Only werewolves react so violently in their human form to tiger attacks.  You went into anaphylactic shock.  If Adam hadn’t brought you back inside, you could have died.  You can’t go back to the life you had before, because that life doesn’t exist anymore.”  He fixed the bandages and laid her arm gently back on the bed.  “You are a werewolf, Cinder, and the perfect mate for our alpha, which makes you a female of standing in the pack.  I have known many alphas in my long lifetime, and Adam is not only a great leader, but also a good man.  Think about that tonight while you rest.  I’ll check on you in the morning.”
    The door shut quietly as the doctor left, and Cyrus pulled a chair up next to the bed and looked at her.  “I can’t believe you’re allergic to me.”
    She started to laugh, but choked on the tears, curling onto her side and holding Cyrus’s hand tightly to her chest.  Immediately, she felt as if she was doing something wrong by holding onto Cyrus, as if she were betraying someone.
    She knew exactly who that someone was.
    When Dr. Whalen released her the following morning and told her take the night off from work, she sat on the edge of the bed in the light pink hospital gown and looked at her ruined blouse.  There was a soft knock at the door, and Cyrus pulled it open.  A young woman stood outside, holding a small travel bag.  “I’m Angie, Adam’s sister.  He asked me to bring some things for you.”
    Cyrus let her in the room, snarling at the two men who stood outside in the hallway, before he shut the door.
    “Who were those guys?” Cinder asked as Angie walked to the bed.
    “Wolves from our pack.  Adam made sure there were guards here all night.”
    Cinder pressed her lips together.  She did not think that was awesome.
    Taking the bag from Angie, she pulled open the zipper and said, “These are my clothes.  How did you get them?”
    Cyrus answered, “I gave him the key to our place.”
    “What?”
    “He asked for the key, suggesting he’d break in if I didn’t hand it over, so in the interest of not messing up our security deposit, I gave the key to him.”
    Cinder frowned and looked at Angie, who had her head down and was trembling as though she were frightened.  Did she think she was in trouble?
    “Thanks, Angie.  I appreciate it.”
    She lifted her head and smiled brightly and then hurried from the room.  Cyrus found something about the situation funny and seemed to be trying hard not to laugh.
    “Shut up,” she groused as she stripped off the gown and changed into comfortable jeans and a short sleeved top.  The wound on her arm had healed overnight – thanks to her accelerated healing – and hadn’t even scarred.  She’d always attributed her healing abilities to her Wiccan nature, but if it were true that she was becoming more in tune with her werewolf side, then she didn’t know what that meant for her Wiccan half.
    The guards introduced themselves as Brick and Solan as she and Cyrus left the room.  They followed