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carefully folded belongings. I tried to
think of a way to smoothly broach the next subject. “So, about Mr.
Landon…”
    She raised an eyebrow. “Cade? What
about him?”
    I felt my face blushing furiously. It
was my curse. “Nothing. Was just curious about him. He’s really
really…”
    “ Sexy as shit?” Claire
finished with a wink.
    There was no point in denying it.
“Sexy, yes. He is that.” I began folding a pair of lacy black
underwear with manic precision.
    She sighed and sat primly on the edge
of the bed. “Well, he and Matt butt heads sometimes but he loves
his boys. His wife, Anna, was a Hoffman so she was quite the
beauty.” She waved a hand. “Ah, but I forget, you wouldn’t know
about the Hoffmans.”
    I tried to picture Cade Landon happily
married to some backwoods beauty queen. The vision came quite
easily. “What happened to her?”
    “ Killed by
hunters.”
    I was startled. “Hunters?”
    She grew agitated. “Yes, fucking
assholes. Always too close and interfering when they shouldn’t. It
was a big thing around here for a while. The packs all got together
and decided to obliterate them.” Her face softened. “But my father
was sheriff then and he managed to change their minds. Good thing
too because there would have been hell to pay.”
    I was trying to keep up and failing
miserably. “Claire, I have no idea what you’re talking
about.”
    She stared at me. A look of pity
passed over her pretty features. “I’m sorry, Tatum. None of that
shit would make any sense to you.”
    I swallowed. “Claire, is Cade Landon
dangerous?”
    She smiled vaguely. “No, not
dangerous, not for you.” She bit the corner of her lip,
considering. “Tatum, there’s a lot you don’t know about the
Landons.” Her wide blue eyes were solemn. “And me. And all of Luna
Junction really.”
    There was that feeling again, a wisp
of worry in the pit of my stomach which was slowly mushrooming into
a sonic cloud. As if there were either something really spectacular
or really frightening lurking beneath the surface of everything and
everyone in this strangle little corner of the world. “Yeah, I’m
beginning to get that impression.”
    Claire opened her mouth to speak again
but a shadow fell across the doorway. Cade Landon was staring at me
but he spoke to Claire. “The boys are getting the pits prepared for
tomorrow, Claire. They could use a hand.”
    Claire threw me an uncertain glance
but took the hint, scurrying out of the room. Cade leaned against
the doorframe, as I tried desperately to keep my eyes trained to
his face and not the other hard and delicious features of his body.
Visions of our brief kitchen tryst came flooding back. I still
wasn’t completely convinced it wasn’t all a byproduct of hunger
delirium but my senses seemed to feel otherwise. My face grew hot.
I didn’t need a mirror to know my skin was bright red. Cade’s
finger was at his lips. He seemed to be thinking.
    “ Tatum, I told Matt it
would be all right if he wanted to drive you back to the
valley.”
    The disappointment was just about
crushing. I could hear the quaver in my voice. “I thought you
wanted me to stay.” I knew I sounded girlish and pouty. But even
with all the weirdness of Luna Junction the thought of returning to
a lonely campus and putting several hundred miles between me and
that looming pile of male perfection in the doorway was
unendurable.
    Cade seemed to choose his words
carefully. “I do want you to stay.”
    I lowered my head. “You know, there’s
nothing between me and Matt, not really.”
    “ I know it.”
    “ It’s because of the
kitchen thing, isn’t it?”
    “ No. Well, yes.” He looked
at me seriously. “If you remain here you’re going to see some
things you’ve never seen before.”
    My heart pounded and I was afraid I
would begin panting and then clawing at the rough denim which
separated my wanton little soul from those wonderful things I had
never seen before. “I can deal with