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watched her as he made his way to the
elevator, glancing back over his shoulder every few minutes. She wasn’t afraid
of him, but she was afraid of what he might try to do to the Calhoun’s and to
Noah.
    Max had changed a great deal, but she knew
who he was. Not only that, Noah did as well. A man could change himself
whenever and however he wanted, but his scent would forever be the same. She
knew who he was because Noah had smelled him on her when Max had accosted her
the other day when she’d been in town for groceries. She thought about Noah now,
and decided he needed to have a heads up on the fact that Max was trying his
crap again. Not to mention, he was trying to insert himself into the Calhouns’
lives as well.
    The man Ford is threatening me and you. Again. Noah asked her where
she was. Mercy General Hospital. One of the people that I have been helping
had a heart problem, and I was there with them. The Calhouns. You heard Meggie
talking about them. Max knows them as well, but they do not know him as we do. He
is expecting them to finance something for him. That can only mean trouble for
the pack. They are a good family, and I hate to think of what Ford can do to them.
    Meggie wasn’t her aunt, not really. Joe had
no living relatives. And had she any when she’d been younger, they had all long
since died. Meggie was the descendant of the sister of Michael, the man that
had worked for Noah as his keeper longer than Joe had. They all had been
watching over the family for generations, and when Meggie had started working
for the Calhouns, they knew the family inside and out before she ever made
their first meal for them. She had always been a firm believer, as had Noah,
that they cared for their own.
    I will be there soon. The wolves, are they as
good as we have thought? A pack that might be open to me coming to see them? She told them that
they were. You will please warn them that I will come by soon. I know that I
need no permission to visit there, but I should ask that you tell them. I don’t
wish for any hard feelings even before we begin.
    I will. They saved me, I think. Noah asked her how,
and she told him what happened. They had no reason to do that, Noah. They
owe me nothing.
    You think no one owes you anything when I
know for a fact that I owe you my life several times over. She told him she
loved him, and to her that was reason enough to risk her life for him over and
over. Yes, child, and I you, but there is the added fact that you have saved
me a great many times.
    After telling him where they were in the big
hospital, he told her that he’d come soon. She turned to the family and tried
to think how to tell them he was coming. The best way, she’d always found, was
usually the simplest. Just straight out.
    “Have you heard of Noah Stark?” Most of them
had and Joe nodded. “He is the man that I watch over when he needs me to. I
have been his for a great many years. We have been...friends. He should like to
come here and talk with you. All of you.” She explained that they both knew Max
Ford, and they might want to listen to him. “Noah is a good man.”
    “He’s a vampire, isn’t he?” Joe nodded again
at Mrs. Calhoun’s question. “I thought so. I’m also assuming that you’ve never
applied for a job with Max Ford. Nor have you any intentions of doing so. At
least I hope not. That man stinks of being a cheater and a liar.”
    “No. I have never wanted to work for anyone
but Noah. I’m his day walker. And have been for many decades.” She watched their
faces. “We have spoken of.... He will be moving along soon anyway, and when he
does, I shall be going with him. But he comes here now to speak to you. He does
want me to tell you that he will be here soon and that he wishes for you not to
be upset with him.”
    “If he’s an enemy of Fords, then he’s a
friend of ours.” Joe said nothing. Noah didn’t make friends easily, and he
seldom had enemies. If he did, they didn’t last