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me off there after you go to the store.”
    Cassie sent her a sharp look but didn’t ask any more questions.
    “How come you’re in Laney’s car?” Dusty asked.
    “Jay’s using his and I still haven’t got my own. Laney said to take hers. It’s not like she’s using it.”
    “Nah, poor thing.” With Laney confined to the estate, Cassie was left to do all of the running around.
    “She’s going insane,” Cassie commented, parking outside the shop. A young couple walked past, hand in hand. Coming the other way, a woman was pushing a stroller and tugging a recalcitrant toddler along. “I’ll just drop this box off,” Cassie said as Dusty opened her door. “I’ll be two seconds.”
    Dusty frowned but nodded. True to her word, Cassie quickly returned.
    “Jay shouldn’t let you come into town on your own,” Dusty grumbled as Cassie pulled away from the curb. “Someone else could have brought that stuff in.”
    If anyone was going to be overprotective, Dusty figured it would be Jay. After all, Cassie was human, physically weaker than the rest of the pack. Dusty knew Jay would be devastated if anything happened to his mate. They might not have the true mate bond that Laney and Cooper did, but they lived and breathed for each other.
    “Until we find the perpetrator who set that bomb, we all need to be on alert. You shouldn’t leave the estate by yourself,” Dusty told her.
    “You’re the one who didn’t want me to bring anyone.”
    “Yeah, but you—”
    “Dusty, enough. I don’t need protection. I’m not important enough. No one is interested in hurting me.”
    Cassie directed the car toward Samson’s, which was a couple of miles out of Landon.
    Dusty shook her head. “What a load of bull. You’re pack now.”
    Cassie sighed. “Am I? Sometimes I wonder.”
    Dusty took a good look at Cassie, noting the tiredness, the lines of strain on her face.
    “Cassie, what’s going on?”
    “Nothing,” Cassie answered too quickly.
    “Don’t give me any crap. That might work with someone who doesn’t know you, but it won’t wash with me. Of course you’re pack. Remember,” she said in a dramatic voice, “all the enforcers got together and we voted on whether or not you would be the first human in seventy years to join the pack. Do you recall that?”
    Cassie glared at her. “There’s no need for sarcasm. Of course I remember it. It was less than a fortnight ago. And voting me in and me being accepted are two very different things. I only just won that vote. Some of the enforcers really didn’t want me to join, remember? They voted no.”
    “What they voted or didn’t vote is irrelevant. You’re pack now.”
    “You know, you’re not exactly in a position to offer me advice. What were you doing at Wild Oaks? Why were you drinking at Samson’s?”
    Dusty sighed. “Great. I called you because I figured I wouldn’t get a hundred questions like I would from everyone else.”
    “They’re worried about you, Dusty. You’re acting so out of character. You’re moping. They think you’re depressed.”
    Outraged, she growled. “I’m not depressed.”
    “No, but you are an idiot. Just because you’ve been temporarily benched doesn’t mean you’re not part of the team.”
    “Sports references? From you?” Dusty looked at her in disbelief.
    “Look, what I’m trying to say is, so what if you can’t be an enforcer at the moment? Your leg will heal. I know being an enforcer was your whole world, but there is more to life. There’s Cain. He could be part of your life, if you’d let him in.”
    “I can’t.”
    “Why not? You two ignite when you’re together. You’re obviously attracted to him. He could be your mate, Dusty. Maybe even your true mate. Your soul mate.”
    She heard the envy in Cassie’s voice. “Cassie—”
    “Don’t you know how much I would kill for that link?” Cassie interrupted her. “How much I want that for me and Jay? I’m not a werewolf. Jay and I can never