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expression on her face.
    “Hey, baby.” He caught her lips in a quick kiss before she pulled away. Trey quickly introduced her to Jackson and Eric.
    “What brings you over here? You didn’t tell me you were going to be here today,” he gently reprimanded.
    She raised an eyebrow in response, eyes laughing. She shook that off before answering with a question of her own.
    “I was just wondering what has my cousin warning me against you,” she said blandly.
    “Cousin?” Jackson jumped in.
    “Yes, my cousin,” she answered dryly. “I’m sure you noticed her.
    No one ever fails to, unless she wants to blend in.”
    Jackson grinned, throwing on the charm. Trey’s hackles rose, but he fought it down. The woman was obviously his mate.
    “You’re lovely yourself, but my friend, Trey, assures me you’re taken. He’d get testy if I tried to steal his girlfriend.”
    She shook her head and relaxed enough for a low laugh. Trey pulled her close to his side and made a show of glowering at Jackson.
    “So. You were telling me about your cousin,” Jackson said, smiling at her again.
    “No. I wasn’t.” She smiled back. “But since you asked so nicely, what was it you wanted to know?”
    “Her name would be a good start. Marital status. Address. Blood type. You know, the usual stuff,” he joked. None of it was really a joke, though.

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    Tara laughed again.
    “Her name is Summer. She’s a zoologist, and you can forget the rest. I’m not telling.”
    “Does she live here?”
    “Some of the time. She goes where the research grants are.”
    “But she’s living here now?” Jackson persisted.
    Tara cocked her head to the side and looked him up and down.
    Trey saw the moment she decided she’d had enough. Her eyes narrowed and her gaze swept over the entire group.
    “She’ll be back in few days. What I’d like to know is what about the four of you that made her so nervous. She’s not the nervous type.”
    “What did she say?” Trey asked.
    “She said not to get too close, and to watch my back.” she smiled sweetly at him.
    “You can trust me,” he responded.
    “Maybe.”
    “Maybe?” he asked, throwing his hands up in exasperation. “How am I supposed to convince you?”
    “Time.” She shrugged and walked away.
    “Wait!” Jackson called. She stopped, and looked over her shoulder, eyebrow raised in question. “She’s a zoologist?”
    Tara nodded.
    “What does she study?”
    “Wolves.”

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    Loribelle Hunt

Chapter Four
    She woke to bright sunlight sneaking through the bedroom’s blinds, and rolled over to snuggle back into Trey. He wasn’t there.
    Listening to the silence of the house, she decided he’d already gone. He’d said something last night about finishing some work early and spending her day off with her. Maybe he’d be back soon.
    She frowned. She was getting too attached too quickly, but she couldn’t seem to help herself. She wanted to blame it all on the sex. It was unbelievable. Heady. Powerful. She stretched, little aches zinging through her body to places that hadn’t been so well used in, well, ever. She grinned. Yep, blame it on the sex.
    Imagine her surprise when Mr. Taciturn turned out to be fascinating, even if she did have to drag information out of him. He’d been everywhere investigating whatever it was he investigated. She frowned again. That was apparently off limits. She understood client confidentiality and all that, but surely he could talk about it in general terms. He looked for missing people. Couldn’t he talk about the ones he’d found? He claimed to always locate whoever he went looking for, too.
    With that kind of track record he should be a cop.
    The air conditioner blasted on, and she burrowed deep under the covers. His smell, woodsy and masculine, seemed to embrace her, making her heartbeat kick up.
    Amazing. A man’s lingering scent has me revved up.
    She glanced at the clock. Nine a.m. She groaned. He