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man, don’t I?”
    “A little,” she said, smiling despite herself. He sure was sexy, broad chest encased in a T-shirt that hugged his body in all the right places. His stomach looked toned, hard like his chest, and then her eyes travelled down to look at his narrow hips and strong thighs. I bet he knows how to use that body. She sighed, letting out the breath she had been holding since she put her hand in his.
    “Oh, I have this for you. I think you dropped it.” He reached into his pocket and pulled out the pendant her father had given her. “May I?”
    He reached up, putting it over her head, his fingers stroking the skin on the back of her neck as he let it fall between her breasts. She shivered, the sensation making her legs go to jelly. Placing her hand on the tooth that had been won from a cave bear so many hundreds of years ago when her ancestors first moved to Wolf Valley, she said, “Thank you for returning it to me.”
    “You are welcome,” he said, his breath a caress across her skin.
    Shuddering with a deep need to be with him, to mate with him, she lifted her face to his and offered herself to him. Weak she-wolf .
     

Chapter Seven - Riley
    So irresistible . But here was not the right place, despite the hardness of his cock in his pants and the overwhelming desire to take her by the hand, drag her round the corner, and take her up against the wall. In public. In daylight.
    She would never forgive him. Or would she? No. That would be wrong; he had to be strong for both their sakes.
    “What time do you finish work?” he asked, stepping back from her, feeling the pull of that invisible thread as it stretched out between them.
    “Four,” she said, her voice husky, filled with emotion and longing. Her she-wolf was there in her eyes; he had to bring her to her senses.
    “Then I’ll be waiting here for you.” He looked to where an interested Trudy was ignoring a customer to spy on them. He hoped it was because she cared. He lowered his voice. “Does your friend know about you?”
    “What about me?” she asked still dazed.
    “You know. The other side of you. When you let your hair down, does she know how wild you become?” To him that was subtle, but Natalie just burst out laughing.
    “Wild,” she repeated, coming to her senses.
    “Yes. Wild. Does she know?”
    “Trudy? She’s my boss, and no. No one knows.” She turned and looked at Trudy, who was still staring at them. Natalie lifted her hand and waved. Trudy waved back and, looking satisfied that her employee wasn’t about to get abducted by a strange man, went back to work. “She watches out for me.”
    “Good. I mean, it’s good that someone does.” He wanted to ask her why she lived here. But this didn’t seem like the time, so he saved his questions for later. “Four.” He emphasised the time, making sure she understood he would be here, would be waiting for her. Forever.
    Natalie looked down at the ground and he knew a refusal was coming. “I don’t know. I never wanted this. I have a good life here.”
    “Do you think you can ignore this? That you can live your life never knowing what it’s like to be with me? You might live in a town with no other wild people, but that hasn’t dimmed your needs. Has it?” He had to restrain himself; the thought that she might run away again made him capable of impulsive behaviour. Like throwing her over his shoulder and carrying her off. Although it took all his strength not to sway her thoughts in his favour, he gave her the time she needed.
    She was quiet, thinking, searching inside herself and he hoped she would be honest with herself. “No. It hasn’t. But that doesn’t mean I’m not scared.”
    He smiled shyly. “That makes two of us.”
    “You don’t look like the type of guy who would be scared of anything.”
    “I am absolutely terrified right now that you are going to walk away from me and I’ll never see you again. When you ran… I didn’t know who you were. Where