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her to laugh but she didn’t. Her smile broadened and there was such a look of happiness in her eyes that he felt as though he’d missed something.

    He really couldn’t figure her out.

    “Paranormal research? That’s like looking for the yeti and things, yes?” She took his glass of whisky from his hand and sipped it.

    When she lowered the glass, his eyes followed it until it reached her chest and then it dropped out of view. The blanket had slipped again. He tried to tear his eyes away from the swell of her breasts and cursed his mind for
    racing to recall how delicious they’d looked when she
    was naked.

    “Hmm?” he said dreamily and raised his brows.

    “Yeti?” she repeated.

    “Um…yes, well…I mean,” he stumbled on the words and
    then cleared his throat. “I suppose. Yeti, vampires,
    ghosts—”

    “Werewolves?” she said with an air of hope about her.

    He frowned for a moment and then nodded. “Those too.”

    Neoma smiled. He was probably thinking she was crazy
    for finding what he’d said something to be happy about, but for her it was. Was there a chance that he’d
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    was fantasy disappear the moment he realised that it
    was in fact a reality for some?

    She drank down the rest of his glass of whisky to steady her nerves and handed it back to him. Their fingers
    touched when he took it from her and tingles swept
    through her body like a chill. She shuddered a little, unable to stop the reaction, and smiled shyly when he
    narrowed his eyes softly on hers.

    While he was refilling his glass, she drew the fur blanket she was wearing to one side and inspected the bandage
    on her thigh. He’d done a good job and her natural
    healing abilities were already beginning to mend the
    wound.

    She frowned when she realised that the pain was gone.
    Her eyes unfocused as the call of the night sung in her veins and called to her soul.

    “Neoma?” he said in a tone of voice that made her
    realise that he was worried about her.

    She stared at the rug they were sitting on, struggling for control inside and begging for a little more time.

    “The storm is clearing,” she whispered and got to her
    feet without thinking. She was halfway to the door when he stopped her.

    He stood right in her path, blocking her way to the
    outside. It was a dangerous move to make, but he didn’t know that. To him, she was just a woman, weaker and
    lighter than him. He didn’t know how strong she really was.

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    “Please let me pass. I shouldn’t have come here. I’ve put you in terrible danger.” She stared at his chest, unable to bring herself to look at his face and see the confusion there. He had a right to feel that way.

    “You can’t go out there. You’ll freeze before you get far.”

    A rumble echoed through her and she gritted her teeth, trying to keep herself together and attempting to ignore the sway of the moon. It was strong tonight. It called to her, promising her open fields of snow to run through
    and the comforting embrace of the dark. She wanted to
    answer it, wanted to let the howl she was holding inside come out, but if she did that then she would lose Scott forever.

    If she left now, there was a chance she could see him
    again.

    But how long could she keep the truth from him?

    She went to push him in the chest to make him move
    but he caught hold of her hand. Her eyes widened when
    she saw her fingernails had extended into their initial claw like state and struggled to get her hand back from him. Panic swept through her, pushing her heart to the limit as the adrenaline entered her veins. She muttered words of pleading, desperate for him not to see what she could.

    She stilled when he looked down. His brows knit. His
    eyes narrowed. He stared at her hand for the longest
    time as though trying to understand what he was seeing.

    She snatched her hand back