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off.
    “Gosh
darn it!” She slapped the wheel in frustration. “Can’t you even let me enjoy
one stupid second of relief?”
    The
man was becoming quite the killjoy.
    Listen.
    The
weakness in the faint order alarmed her.
    Get
to the Circle J. Stay on the road and keep going. Don’t trust your eyes. No
matter what you see. No matter how bad it gets, do not take your foot off the
gas.
    Call
her a skeptic, but how much worse could it get? “What do you mean, ‘no matter
how bad it gets’?”
    Get
to Circle J. The wolves cannot go there.
    She
glanced longingly at her driveway as she passed by. “How do you know that? Do
you have some sort of monster wolf fencing installed?”
    Yes.
    That
might have been just a trace of mocking amusement she heard at the end of the
soft affirmative. When she didn’t answer, she felt the mental nudge again.
    Damn
persistent man. She just wanted to go home and pretend this never happened.
    Promise
me you won’t stop. No matter what.
    She
turned right onto the entrance road to the Circle J ranch, feeling like she was
heading down a path of no return. “I promise.”
    His Good was just a sigh in her head. It winked out on a whisper of energy, and then he
was gone, leaving her alone on a strange road in a race with killer wolves that
planned on cutting her off from a sanctuary she wasn’t even sure existed. Son
of a bitch. Wasn’t that just like a man?
    “Caleb?”
    There
wasn’t an answer. And she wasn’t really expecting one. There was an emptiness
where his voice had been. A dead feeling void that scared the bejesus out of
her.
    She
shook her head and drove as fast as she dared up the rutted, tree-lined road.
Her car bottomed out in a deep hole, making her jump. The gun fell to the
floor. She swore and fished around for it, not taking her eyes off the
treacherous path.
    Another
bump had her abandoning the gun in favor of trying to stay on the road.
Clenching the wheel tightly in her hands, she squinted through the smears and
cracks into the night and cursed her luck. It just figured the first man to
believe that she could keep a promise would be a fictitious voice in her head.
    She
wrestled the car around the corner against the series of ruts trying to bounce
the vehicle off the road. By the time the car hit the next smooth patch, her
teeth were vibrating in her head. Lord knows how her passenger felt. If he was
even still alive.
    “Sorry
about that,” she whispered, afraid to look, wrenching the wheel to the right,
narrowly missing a big boulder sticking up in the middle of the road. Caleb had
to be out of his mind to think her little car could handle this path
masquerading as a road. She had half a mind to turn around.
    The
white wolf that leapt out of the trees put paid to that idea. She hit the gas
and fishtailed to the other side of the path, narrowly avoiding the collision
that would have taken out her car. More wolves appeared on both sides of the
car, taking advantage of her slowing to swarm her. It scared her, how willing
they were to sacrifice themselves to stop her. They had to be after either her
or the wolf, but since they were a package deal at this point, she wasn’t
slowing for love or money.
    The
car leaned precariously into the next curve. She was driving too fast for the
road, but it was impossible to slow down. Herded on by the wolves like a lamb
to slaughter, she could only pray that the car held the road and that there
weren’t any unpleasant surprises between here and the Circle J. Sweat poured
down her face, and her hands slipped on the wheel. The bumper scraped a tree
before she got it back on the road. The wolves howled at the near miss, and
then fell back into formation around her. The masked wolf paced alongside the
driver’s door, seemingly content to wait. For what? Were they waiting for her
to crash?
    She
wiped the sweat off her brow with her coat sleeve. She wasn’t going to crash.
The only course she’d ever gotten an A in had been the