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“You’re a wolf?”
    “Technically, I’m a werewolf, but yes, I can change shapes between wolf and human.”
    “Uh-huh,” she said wondering how she managed to find herself in crazy land. “And what’s your story?”
    The man with blue eyes actually laughed. “Innocent bystander?” he offered with a shrug.
    “Somehow I find it hard to believe either of those claims. You sure don’t seem like a bystander. More like the guy always in the middle of trouble.”
    “But I am innocent,” he protested with a wide smile. He watched her for a moment before becoming more serious and asking quietly, “Do you remember what happened?”
    “I have memories, but they don’t make a heap of sense. I remember a wolf biting my throat, but there’s no damage, so that can’t be right.”
    “Technically it is,” blue-eyes said as he stepped back once more and let the other man explain.
    “You were dying. We did what needed to be done to save your life.”
    “Ah, I want to say thank you, but somehow I don’t think I’m going to like the method you used.”
    “It’s not so bad,” the man said with a shrug. “I’ve been a werewolf for forty years now. Most of the time it’s actually pretty cool.”
    “Back up a little.” She shook her head. Obviously this guy was delusional. First he claimed that he was the wolf that saved her life eleven years ago, and now he was telling her he was a werewolf? Surely his friend had a better explanation. Exasperated, Maggie sat up, careful to keep the blankets around her to hide the embarrassing and somewhat unexplainable hardness of her nipples, and looked them both up and down. “Do you have names?”
    Blue-eyes laughed. “Sorry, sugar, I guess that’s the first thing we should have shared. I’m Gavin Campbell and this is Kade Ridges. Hensen Bright—he’s the werewolf who changed you—should be back soon. He’s just gone to…” He glanced at Kade, apparently uncertain what Hensen had gone to do.
    “Hensen went to speak to the alpha of his pack and the alpha of my pack to explain what happened and to make arrangements for the wolf pack that attacked you to be relocated.”
    “Were they werewolves, too?” she asked, accepting for the moment that both men in front of her seemed to be delusional.
    “No, sweetheart,” Kade said, coming closer to the cot and then checking the spot on her throat where she remembered being wounded, “they were just hungry wolves. It’s been a lean winter.”
    “But you two are werewolves.”
    “Actually I’m one-hundred-percent confused human at the moment. Kade and Hensen are the werewolves,” Gavin said.
    “And you believe them?” she asked skeptically, sort of hoping the guy would wink and promise to get her out of here as soon as he could.
    “I believe what I saw,” he said, brushing a hand over her forehead and pushing her hair from where it had fallen over her eye. “I’ve seen enough wounds to know you should have died.”
    She nodded. She unfortunately had a very clear memory of him holding his hands against her throat. At the time she’d known that she was dying. Perhaps she shouldn’t be so quick to deny her second chance at life.
    “So…um…what do werewolves do? I mean are we as dangerous as the TV shows tell us?”
    Gavin laughed softly but waited for Kade to answer. “I’m not sure what television shows you these days. We’ve only just gained access to that human technology. For the most part we live in peace and stay away from humans. We also spend a lot of time protecting other shifters from human discovery.”
    “Other shifters?” Maggie asked, feeling maybe just a little bit sick.
    “Sure,” Kade said with a smile. “Most animals on this mountain have a shifter species as well as a natural one. Most of the smaller shifters spend their entire lives in their animal forms.”
    “So this is home?” she asked, glancing around the poorly lit bomb shelter. She was fairly certain they were