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clouds now crowded in front of the faint sliver of moon. Her apartment wasn’t in the best of neighborhoods, and she felt an odd ripple of fear as she climbed out of her car and headed for the front door of her apartment building.
    There was a car parked in front of the apartment, and she quickened her stride as she headed for her front door. The doorway was set back in an alcove, pooled in shadow, and as she approached it, a man shot out from the alcove. He grabbed her by the arm and threw her up against the wall. He wore a ski mask and gloves.
    Terror flooded through her.
    “One word, and I’ll choke the life out of you. I’m here to warn you. I saw you chasing after the Alpha at the bar tonight. Leave him alone, or you’re dead.”
    “I didn’t go there to chase after him!” she protested, clawing at his hands. His hand tightened on her throat until she was gasping for breath, and she stopped clawing.
    “Liar,” he growled.
    “I went there to tell him to leave me alone and be nice to Regina, and he promised he would. And he always keeps his word,” she wheezed. God, she hoped that was true.
    The man’s cold gray eyes bored into her from the slits in his mask.
    “I know where you live. I know where you work. I know how late your cousin stays out.”
    Her heart leaped into her throat. Not Angela.
    “Stay away from him,” he said, and he let go of her throat, turned around, climbed into his car and drove off.
    * * * * *
    The next day…
     
    Angela stood on the sidewalk in front of Mary’s apartment building, with her bags packed and her face wrinkled in misery. Mary felt it too. Angela had driven her crazy since she’d moved in with her…but she’d miss her terribly.
    “But why do I have to leave?” Angela wailed as her mother climbed out of the car.
    “For the millionth time, because a crazy man grabbed me last night outside my house and attacked me. He knows where I live and where I work. And he mentioned you.”
    “You should have called the police. Or maybe told Jarrod. Jarrod wouldn’t let anything happen to you. He’d have half the pack in front of your door guarding you,” Angela said.
    “Jarrod doesn’t care about me, especially after I told him to get lost,” Mary said. “And I can’t call the police. Not in a situation like this, with a famous socialite and an Alpha and a bridenapping… It would hit the news, and it would probably ruin Hilda. And she’s mad enough as it is.”
    Angela’s mother, Prudence, stalked up to them, stiff-legged, her expression disapproving as usual.
    “Did she get arrested?” she asked Mary, without bothering to greet Angela.
    Angela’s expression turned sullen and she folded her arms across her chest like a sulky toddler.
    “Hello, Prudence. No, she did not.”
    “Did she get fired?”
    “No.” She never looked for a job, so of course she didn’t get fired, Mary thought.
    “Date some thoroughly unsuitable loser?”
    Mary hesitated for just a microsecond, but it was enough.
    Prudence’s eyes flashed with triumph. “Of course. What a surprise.”
    Angela’s expression was as dark as a storm cloud.
    Herb, Angela’s stepfather, had climbed out of the car. He walked over and seized Angela’s suitcases, head bowed. He blinked hard behind thick sunglasses.
    Angela shot Mary a last look of mingled despair and pleading. Mary bit her lip and looked away. She knew Angela would be miserable back at her parents’ house, but at least she’d be safe.

Chapter Six
     
    “But why?” Bruce asked, as they lay on their backs in the grass, looking up at the stars. “Why can’t we go outside the fence?”
    “You ask too many questions,” John said. “Mr. Tompkins told us. The humans want to kill us.”
    “How come they want to kill us?” Bruce persisted.
    “They’re scared of us. You know that. Mr. Tompkins told us. He’s the only one who cares about us. He keeps us here so we’ll be safe.”
    Bruce didn’t know very much, but then he only had