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the movement would curb her disgust.
    “I need you to come with me,” Val said, his mane of blond hair escaping the tie at the nape of his neck.
    “Where?”
    “Back home. I have something to show you.”
    “I don’t want to go home. I don’t want to stop, talk, look.” She shook her head, pain rising within her, clenching her belly. “The speed makes me feel better. Or maybe it makes me feel nothing, I don’t know.” Tears choked in her throat. Goddamn it . “It’s starting to come back, Val. I gotta go.” She began to move past him.
    He blocked her way. “Pets, wait.”
    She snarled at him. “I can’t.”
    “We have something for you,” he insisted, his eyes shifting from her chin to her ear. “Something we think might help.”
    “Nothing helps. Don’t you get that? Except for this. Moving, sweating. It’s just going to have to be pure survival mode until Little Fangs here is born.”
    He made a face. Disgusted or embarrassed, she couldn’t tell. “You’re not really going to name it that, are you?”
    “I’m going.” Groaning, she took off again at a fast jog.
    “Pets, wait. Please.” In seconds, Val was at her side. But this time he was in his lion form. He kept pace with her, snarling, tossing his incredible mane, giving her the “cat eyes” that as a child always got him what he wanted.
    That wasn’t happening today.
    “Go home, Val,” she called out. “I appreciate your concern, but this is my problem to deal with.”
    She sped up, hoping he’d get the message and take off for home, but he was clearly determined. With a massive roar, he shot out in front of her, and the minute she slowed to avoid crashing into him, dipped his head, pushing her off balance.
    “Goddamn it, Val!” she cried, stumbling, trying to right herself.
    But the lion shifter knew exactly what he was doing. When one of her legs jacked up, he lowered and shoved his body underneath. As Petra straddled his back, instinct gripped her, and she fisted his mane in both her hands to keep herself steady as he rose to his full height.
    Not waiting for a response or permission, he took off, barreling over the stretch of land at a shocking pace, kicking up dirt. She couldn’t believe him. What was he trying to prove?
    She curved over him and leaned into the wind. “I should bite you for that,” she called near his right ear as they raced across the pride’s lands. What the hell was Val thinking? What was so freaking important that he had to practically abduct her? And who else was in on it?
    Her gut twisted. Why couldn’t her family and her friends understand and accept that this was going to be her existence, her reality, for a little while? She knew they cared deeply for her. She knew they wanted more than anything to stop her suffering, and she loved them to death for it. But at some point they had to realize there was nothing to be done but to ride it out.
    And speaking of riding it out . . .
    “What the hell are we doing here, Val?”
    The lion shifter had come to a dust-kicking halt outside the River House, the one-story cabin on stilts that bracketed the rushing water below. The structure had been built by Sasha, Valentin, and their father many years ago to use when the weather grew unbearably warm. Petra couldn’t count the number of times she’d stretched out in the shade underneath the house, in the water, or on the bank. It had been perfect and relaxing. Completely the opposite of now.
    Valentin quickly shifted into his male form, grabbed a pair of jeans from the stair railing, and pulled them on. “Come inside, Pets.”
    Inside? This was crazy. What she wanted to do was turn around and run, keep running until she lost her breath. But she knew Val—his stubbornness and that look on his face. He would just come after her again. Better to see what he had inside the house, appease him for a few minutes, and then take off.
    The pain of hunger rushed through her as she followed Val up the short flight of