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had no idea how to take care of myself. Her visiting nurse found us.”
    “And that’s why you hate to be alone,” Kiera said.
    I nodded. “At CAST they told me I had agoraphobia. I panic anytime I’m in an unfamiliar situation.” The first couple of days in Granger Falls had been sheer hell. Left in the middle of nowhere with complete strangers. Luckily, Kiera needed someone as badly as I did, and even though we’d lived together for almost a year and this was the first time I told her my story, she’d always known what I needed.
    “Is that why you’re afraid of having more with Dallas? You’re worried he’s going to leave you?”
    “Exactly. Everyone I love leaves me.”
    Kiera squeezed my hand. “I’ll never leave you, I promise. We may not always live together, but that doesn’t mean I’m not here for you. Wherever I am. As far as Dallas is concerned, remember, wolves mate for life. You hook him, he’s yours. You couldn’t ask for a more perfect boyfriend.” She smiled, but couldn’t hold it for long. “Okay, my turn. When I was in Iraq I, ah, got in an argument with a bomb and lost.” She lifted her sweatshirt and showed me the price she paid.

Chapter Six
    D allas
    “How much did you drink last night? You look like shit.” Baron laughed at me as I stumbled into Shadow’s office. In Sawtooth Forest, we didn’t take holidays off. Trina needed help with her ever-growing shelter, which had now expanded to a livestock rescue on the newly renamed Channing Reserve. When it was Ryker’s farm, it had served as our jail, but Trina, Kiera, and Lyssie saved us from that Hell. Shadow killed Ryker the first chance he got. I’d followed him. My oldest brother had always been my hero, and there was nothing I wouldn’t do for him.
    The land looked different now. We’d buried all the demons we could, burning and bulldozing most of the farm once we claimed the land. We wanted to make this a place full of hope and promise for our packs, and we were already being forced to defend it.
    “Two beers. I’m fine,” I grimaced, collapsing into a chair in front of the desk. I should’ve stayed at Lyssie’s, but my wolf was rumbling so fiercely I was afraid what would happen when she came back. The concoction Chandra gave me worked for a little while. I wasn’t nauseous anymore, but now I had an overwhelming need to claim what was mine. My mouth watered in that sickening way with a craving for something soft and sweet. Preferably with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a blush creeping over her cheeks.
    “You should’ve gone to Mom’s if you’re sick.” Shadow stood over me, judgment all over his face. “We know Lyssie called Chandra for you. Doesn’t sound like a hangover to me.”
    Oh hell no. My mother would know exactly what happened the minute she laid eyes on me. But apparently, so did my brothers. “Fine. I got bit by one of the Montana she-wolves.”
    “Fuck!” Shadow slammed his hand down on the desk. “That’s why we were at The Stepchild. To make sure that didn’t happen. I brought Trina into Red Heaven, to keep an eye on those girls. Every one of our wolves was warned to stay away from them.”
    Baron laughed. “Right. That’s exactly why you brought Trina to Red Heaven. How’d that go?”
    “Amazing.” The corners of Shadow’s mouth twitched, but he fought the smile. “That’s beside the point. They got their foothold. It’s you. And if you reject your mate, it’s going to cause a war.”
    The nausea was back. “That’s not what Chandra said. She said as long as I chose a mate and took care of business, it would go away.” I left out the more dire parts of the prognosis. Ember didn’t have that kind of power over me, I refused to give it to her. Shadow had already lost one brother. He wouldn’t lose another.
    “The sickness might go away, but you’ve been claimed, brother. If you’re involved with another woman, you’re insulting her entire pack. Imagine how you’d feel, if