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locked up in the zoo. He never thought he’d see her again, but she was even more beautiful than before, if that was possible. He recognized the longing in her whisky-colored eyes. Save me, they pleaded. And the smell of her—wild and ripe for the picking.
    God, how he wanted to claim her heart and body for his own.
    He gritted his teeth and fisted his hands. How many times did he have to rescue the woman before she recognized how….
    He shook his head. It didn’t matter how he felt. She could never be his. Even if Volan didn’t lead the pack, it wouldn’t matter—Bella was so hell-bent on having a human for a mate. His neck muscles grew taut.
    The door adjoining his room squeaked open. He turned.
    Gray-haired, wiry Argos nodded. Once the leader of the pack, he had stepped down when he’d grown too old. “Are you sure she’ll come to me?”
    “She trusts you.”
    Argos winced. The old leader didn’t like the idea of returning her to Volan any more than Devlyn did, but she wouldn’t be safe on her own. Worse, she threatened thesecrecy of their kind with her rash decisions. She belonged to their pack for safe keeping, period.
    “You were like a father to her. She was happy with us until Volan took over,” Devlyn continued. “She’ll come to you.”
    “I know what you want, but you can’t have her.”
    “Nobody can have her. Not while she’s got this insane notion of finding a human to love. Why does Volan want her so badly? She’ll make a lousy alpha female mate when she despises him so. He can’t lock her up or force her to mate with him.”
    Argos raised his brows, but remained silent.
    Devlyn rubbed his temple, trying to massage away the tension that collected there. “He wouldn’t, would he?”
    “He’s the pack leader. Once he gets hold of her, she’ll obey him or pay the consequences. He’s driven to have her as much as she’s driven to avoid him and find the perfect human mate. So what drives you, Devlyn?”
    Hatred of male humans. Procreation of his kind, if he could ever find a suitable mate. But none of the other females in their pack were an acceptable age that he wanted. Only Bella. And searching for another of his kind—well, of the red wolf variety, as that’s what he had his heart set on—proved unachievable.
    It was like looking for red wolves in the wild in the States. Nearly impossible to find. And no other kind of wolf would do. The red wolf in her had to be what drew him to her.
    “I’ve heard rumors he killed his own brother,” Devlyn said, avoiding Argos’s question.
    “Which one?”
    In disbelief, Devlyn stared at him. “There was more than one?”
    “Two, both died before you joined the pack. But no, they were accidents. A mountain lion killed his youngest triplet when he was a juvenile. He’d roamed away from the pack on a hunt and the others couldn’t reach him in time. His eldest brother died in a raging flood. Tree was uprooted, smashed into his skull. The healers said he was dead before the river pulled him under. But Volan learned his bullying from that brother, the meanest, most crotchety wolf known to lupus garou. Just surviving his brow-beating made Volan as strong as he is today.”
    Devlyn made a disgruntled throaty sound. He’d always wondered why Volan was so aggressive and controlling, but as far as he was concerned, it didn’t excuse his behavior. “Are the others ready?”
    “Yes.”
    “Volan’s not coming for her later, is he?” Devlyn jerked his leather jacket on.
    “No. He’s the leader, not stupid.”
    “Some of us would argue that point.”
    Volan sent Devlyn to retrieve Bella because he wanted to emphasize the point that Devlyn would reclaim her, but she belonged to Volan. The thought curdled Devlyn’s supper, a couple of hastily eaten half-raw burgers, resting like a greasy lump in the pit of his stomach.
    Once they’d seen the newsflash concerning her, they had to be sure it was her, though. Finding a red wolf inthe Cascades was