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of seeing to Nick’s needs,” she said with confidence. “I can get patrol cops to watch the area.”
    When he groaned, she had to work to suppress the shudder her body had in reaction to him. Damn, that sound echoed down her spine.
    “I understand you care about the boy but so do I,” she assured him.
    “He needs protection, more than just cops sitting in front of the house. Especially since this guy likes to burn homes to the ground,” Garrett argued. “This is a special case. You have to be able to do something.”
    Lily sighed. They were just going around in circles.
    “Let him stay with Cooper and Julie. Cooper’s a police officer and he can ensure his safety. Julie is a trained EMT so his health will be looked after. This is the best idea if you really think about it,” Garrett repeated his earlier argument.
    “It’s not just up to me. I have superiors that I have to answer to,” she said. She was weakening and knew it.
    Garrett’s dark eyes softened. He reached out and grasped her elbow. The heat of his palm burned into her flesh. She had to work to control how his touch affected her.
    “Try, just please see what you can do.”
    She was going to give in and it had nothing to do with his damn puppy dog eyes, she tried to tell herself. “I have to call my superior and Jeremy. See what they think.”
    He grinned. “That’s all I ask.”
     

Chapter Three
     
     
     
    Garrett glanced up from where he’d spread out his papers and laptop on the kitchen table when the back door to his sister’s house opened. Julie was currently at the stove making dinner while he was reading over the files that Haas had brought him.
    Cooper entered the kitchen, letting in a cold gust of wind. The warmth of the kitchen against the chill of the fall night had Garrett shivering just a little.
    “Shut the door!” Julie called out. “You’re letting the cold in.”
    “Mike, hurry up,” Cooper yelled.
    Mike Riley came rushing in and closed the door. “Hey.” Mike nodded to him. “Good to see you.”
    Garrett stood and held up his hand. Cooper, of course, had gone straight to Julie to get his welcoming kiss.
    “You too,” Garrett said to Mike. He’d first met Mike when his sister had thrown a barbecue for hers and Cooper’s friends and family to get to know each other. Mike was one of Cooper’s best friends from their college days. Garrett had become fast friends with the lawyer.
    “Next time we should leave out arson, break-ins and kidnapping and just grab a beer,” Mike said.
    Garrett lifted an eyebrow in question.
    “Randy Bolton is my law partner,” Mike explained.
    “The break-in?” Garrett asked.
    “I don’t know what they were looking for but I doubt they found anything. They trashed the place but I didn’t find anything missing.”
    That is weird. Garrett needed to find out how all the shifters were connected. Lieutenant Haas was already starting that line of research and Garrett had a feeling that would be where they found their answers. That didn’t mean that he couldn’t ask Mike a few questions, even if he wasn’t officially assigned to the case until the next day.
    Garrett pulled out a chair from the table and motioned for Mike to do the same. Cooper joined them as Julie finished off making dinner. She pulled down plates from the cabinets and he knew they didn’t have much time to talk before Nick would come in.
    “What’s next?” Garrett questioned because if he knew Cooper and Mike they would have a plan.
    “Our Alpha is heading out in the morning to California to talk to the Council and ask if they can give us any help. While he’s gone we’ll continue to look for Randy and protect Nick,” Cooper answered.
    “It was a good idea bringing Nick here,” Mike added.
    “It’s all I could think of to keep him safe,” Garrett admitted. “I feel like it’s my responsibility. I don’t know why, but I’m going to do it.”
    “Follow your instincts,” Cooper told him.
    Garrett