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nothing wrong with it.”
    Darian’s eyes looked pointedly at the numerous scrapes and smears on the front of her vehicle. With a silent raised eyebrow he slowly and deliberately pointed with one finger.
    Still looking confused Aryana closed the door and came around the front of the vehicle. Surprise crossed her features as she took in the damage Darian was pointing at. What the hell?  “I have no idea what happened. It wasn’t there when I left yesterday..” Her voice trailed off as she surveyed the damage.
    Within the paint and around the headlight on the passenger side where numerous scrapes and strands of hair.  Some were pretty deep and while there were no dents in the body work itself it liked like someone had done one hell of a scratch up job on the front of the fender with a fork and knifes and possibly a tree branch. There was a tuft of thick dark hair stuck in where the front fender ended and the front of the car began near the headlight. On the very edge of the headlight as a large smear of blood. Reaching her fingers out she plucked the tuft of hair out of the scrapes and examined it more closely. It was soft and reminded her of dogs hair. It was dark and silky and short and thick. Her mind went to the events of last night and the encounter up by the lake when she thought she had hit something…Could she have? It was dark, if she HAD hit something she wouldn’t have been able to see the damage last night. 
    “Do you mind if I clean this off before we go?”
     
    Darian sat in the passenger side of the vehicle as Aryana went back into the house and came back out with the cleaning supplies. He didn’t need to examine the damage to figure it out. He could smell his own scent in the smears of blood. She had hit something and that something had been HIM. Not in his human form but it had to have happened close to before he had changed back. It explained a lot about his bruising too.  He sighed and leaned his head back against the headrest. Damn this was getting more and more complicated.  Darian felt his wolf whine when Aryana came back out with paper towels and cleaning spray. He watched silently as she did a quick job of cleaning off the blood smear and tossed the soiled towels in the can by the street. What is she thinking? Who is she? WHAT is she? Why is she so familiar? And why the HELL does my stupid wolf keep whining for her? These thoughts would play through his head over and over the entire way home only broken by having to give her directions on where to turn.
     
    Aryana couldn’t help but wonder about the man beside her.  He seemed familiar to her but she knew she had never met him before. And she still didn’t know why he had been out in the woods the night before sans clothing. What she did know was he was one of the best looking guys she had ever met.  Her nervousness grew a bit though as they drove deeper and deeper into the woods. They passed the turn off to the lake where she had been swimming last night about thirty minutes ago and there didn’t seem to be a town anywhere nearby.  After about fifteen more minutes she suddenly saw it. It really WAS deep in the woods..
    Darian directed her to the other side of the town and up a ways to a house that was a good quarter mile from everyone else’s. Call her paranoid but she had felt every pair of eyes they had passed following her as they had driven through the town. Pulling to a stop and parking where he had indicated, she turned to him with a smile on her face. “Guess this is it.”
    Darian had a faraway look on his face when he turned to look at her. “Yeah, I guess it is.” His wolf whined and whimpered in his ear at the thought of leaving her so soon. Why in the hell was the damn thing acting like this? It was annoying the daylights out of him but he had to admit he didn’t really want them to part so soon either. “Would you like to come in? Least I can do is offer you a drink before you drive back.”
    Aryana stilled