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She tore her gaze away from his square jaw and concerned eyes and looked back out the window.
    They had only stopped long enough to grab clothes from her apartment and get Troy’s car from the fire station, and now they were headed into the hills. The River family estate had been a safehouse during all the troubles with the Wolf Hunter… until he had somehow discovered the location and outed it along with the rest of her family. But her cousin, Terra, and the rest of the Riverwise security company were working to fortify it, taking a stand against the Wolf Hunter and his threats. And her cousin, Daniel, seem to think it was a safer place for her than the open campus of the University of Washington. Or her apartment. Which was why Daniel was in the car ahead of them, leading the way up the mountain.
    What she couldn’t figure out was why Troy insisted on driving her.
    With his short-cropped dark hair and broad shoulders and determined yet incredibly sexy green eyes, he was an alpha wolf, if she’d ever seen one. He was a firefighter and a shifter healer, but the reason why he was driving up the mountain was to join Daniel and the effort to capture the Wolf Hunter. And apparently to help her get settled at the estate.
    The reason why she’d agreed to ride in his car… well, that had to do with her extreme inability to keep her eyes off him.
    This was such trouble for her.
    “See? I told you that you were in no condition to drive.” He slid a sideways look to her with a small grin. “Never argue with the EMT.”
    “I’ll try to remember that.” She forced herself to look away from that smirky grin and ignore the tightness low in her belly that it caused. Troy was hot—she could see that even better now that he wasn’t covered in firefighter gear. His muscles bulged out of his polo, his jeans rode low on his hips, hugging him like they were in love, and not only had he saved her from a burning inferno and almost certain death by asphyxiation, but he had seen her naked. And she could tell by the way he kept sneaking looks that he was attracted to her. All of it had her wolf sitting up and panting, begging her to pull over to the side of the road and climb into the lap of this hot alpha wolf.
    None of which she could do. She wasn’t even sure what his deal was, anyway—was he really that idealistic, signing up for the cause, driving her up the mountain just for a chance at going after the Wolf Hunter?
    “You really don’t have to come babysit me up here in the mountains, you know,” Zoe said, trying to put a little bite into her voice to counter the craving her inner beast had for him.
    He raised an eyebrow. “I’m not going to be babysitting you. Daniel says once you’re settled, he could use some help with this team he’s putting together. And I told you, I’ve been dying for a chance to help. Besides, I’ve got vacation stored up—my crew can cover for me well enough for a few weeks.”
    A few weeks? She was hoping all of this would be over long before then. Her father had stayed at the University, working into the night to help with the cleanup and to get busy on rebuilding the lab. He promised to get her any equipment she needed, as long as she left the University and came up here, where he was convinced it was safer. Zoe wasn’t convinced anywhere was safe, not until they caught the Wolf Hunter and ended this madness. She only hoped she could end her own personal struggle with her inner white wolf in the meantime.
    She looked back at Troy’s clean-cut, good-looking face as he studied the winding mountain road. If she somehow managed to eliminate the white wolf inside her, would she even want someone like Troy? Probably. He was incredibly gorgeous and brave and the sort of genuinely good person she admired—but if she wasn’t a wolf, he was unlikely to be interested in her. Wolves mated with wolves. Getting rid of her white wolf would mean getting rid of all the parts of her that were wolf .
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