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."
    Sounded like Mabel was all right then.
    Rebecca looked at Ronan in concern. "Ronan?
Liam said you took a bullet. You all right?"
    Ronan held up his arm to show her the gauze
bandage. "I'm fine. It just grazed me." A tiny bullet cutting
across Ronan's triceps was nothing. He'd been shot with a Fae arrow
last year--now that had hurt . The effing Fae spelled their
arrows.
    "You were jumping in front of bullets again,
weren't you, Ronan?" Cherie said, folding her arms. She had
black-and-brown streaked hair, entirely natural, matching her
grizzly's coat. "You've gotta stop that. We need you without
holes."
    "Leave him alone," Scott said. "He did what
he had to do."
    Scott was a black bear, the smallest of the
horde when he shifted, but he was still tall and lanky, with black
hair and a surly expression. The Transition was hard on him.
    Olaf was still mastering English, having been
located by Liam and brought to Shiftertown only a year ago. He had
white-blond hair and black eyes, and his bear was too adorable to
be real. "Mabel paints my hair too. Okay, Ronan?"
    "I said he'd look cute with blue streaks in
his hair," Mabel said.
    Rebecca shot Ronan an evil look. "I told him
it was up to you."
    "Sure, thanks, Becks. Not now, Olaf. This is
Elizabeth, Mabel's sister. She and Mabel are staying. So keep it
down so they can sleep. I'll give them my room and sleep out in the
Den."
    "No, no, no, don't do that to them," Rebecca
said quickly. "They're taking my room, which is habitable,
and I'll sleep in the Den. Putting them in your room would be cruel
and unusual punishment."
    "I'm sleeping with Rebecca," Cherie said
quickly. She always felt nervous when Rebecca was out of the
house.
    "Whatever. Female bears," Ronan said to
Elizabeth. "They like to take over. Everything."
    "Hey, Papa-Bear was out being arrested,"
Rebecca said. "For being a knight errant. I didn't realize that was
a crime in the human world."
    "I did smack the guy," Ronan said. "But he
deserved it. His mother must be too soft on him."
    "His mother is probably terrified of him,"
Elizabeth said. "Or maybe she's as bad as he is, or--most
likely--not there at all."
    Ronan realized he still had hold of
Elizabeth's hand. He also realized he wasn't in that big a hurry to
let it go. Rebecca noticed, but--thank the Goddess--kept her
thoughts to herself.
    "How do you know so much about humans like
Marquez?" Ronan asked Elizabeth. "You said in the courtroom you
knew exactly what he was going to do."
    Mabel rolled her eyes before Elizabeth could
answer. "You do not want to know. Elizabeth was a juvenile
delinquent. In a big way."
    "I thought they didn't want to know."
Elizabeth shook off Ronan's hand. "It's nice of you, Ronan, but we
can't stay here. I don't have a change of clothes, for one
thing."
    "I brought your stuff," Mabel said brightly.
"And Sean says we have to stay. He's cute, Lizzy--you should hear
his Irish accent. Too bad he's mated, but I like his mate. Andrea,
you've met her before. Anyway, Sean says we're staying in
Shiftertown until Liam and the trackers make sure it's safe for us
to go home."
    Elizabeth held up her hands. "Mabel, stop
talking for just a second--"
    "Shiftertown's the safest place for you,"
Ronan broke in. "No one will find you here. The trackers will sniff
around, find out what these people wanted with your house, and deal
with them."
    Ronan saw Rebecca's eyes flicker when he
said, Deal with them, and the two bears shared a
look. The phrase could have many shades of meaning, especially with
the Morrisseys involved.
    Juvenile delinquent. In a big
way. Ronan remembered how Elizabeth had lifted the card from
his pocket--quickly and skillfully. There was more to Elizabeth
Chapman than met the eye, and Ronan was determined to find out all
about her.
    Elizabeth still hesitated, but Olaf walked up
to her and put his little hand in hers. "Inside," he said in his
thickly accented English. "We keep you safe, Lizbeth."
    The little cub did what all the adults