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was never on her side but maybe, just maybe, this time she’d get to keep her secret shame her own and not have to share it with the world for their ridicule. Of course, given he was Rex, he could probably smell she wasn’t telling him something.
    “We’ll stop them, witch. I promise.”
    She rolled her eyes. “I hate that you call me witch. Change one letter and it’s a completely hurtful word.”
    He laughed, which made her want to deck him. “Maybe in the first few minutes of knowing you, I meant it like that.”
    “And now?” Her heart beat hard against her ribs.
    “Now you’re my witch.”
    She grinned, joy filling her soul at his simple words. The whole situation was nuts.
    They both knew it couldn’t work between them, but it felt good to belong to someone again. Even if he was a half-crazed wolf who thought he ruled the world.
    She wanted to kiss him. Horrified at the thought, she almost pulled away from him before she thought about the twins and their spells. Goddess, she might as well tell him.
    He could probably smell it anyway.
    But would he want to kiss her? She pushed the thought from her mind. Kissing Rex would cause trouble she didn’t need. She had enough weighing down on her without adding passion for a wolf to the mix.
    “Elizabeth.” His voice sounded like a sigh when he said her name. “You smell so fantastic right now. What are you thinking about?”
    Keep it light . She had to remember not to get sucked into the sultry way his voice called to her soul. In no scenario could she afford to lose herself in Rex Kane. She’d never reemerge from the experience emotionally intact. Too much was going on for her to lose her head.
    “I don’t know, but if it smells good, then I’m glad.” Liar. Before she’d been turned into what essentially amounted to a hideous beast, she’d never lied. When would she have been required to? Life had been simple, easy. She hadn’t needed to make moral judgments and weigh shades of gray.
    Rex sniffed the air, his eyes getting wide.
    “What?” He couldn’t have just realized she’d been contemplating kissing him. The thought had dissipated seconds earlier. How long did these things last?
    “We’re about to be in trouble. Sit up.” He moved her off his lap. “Put your seatbelt on.”
    “But what about the twins?” Elizabeth felt unwelcome panic start to rise in her throat. How could Rex just decide to leave her swinging in the wind unprotected after he’d said he’d take care of her? Why was she surprised? The whole world turned against her eventually.
    “This isn’t the twins. It’s my kind of trouble instead.”
    “What?” She didn’t understand. Weren’t his issues happening on an island off the coast of Maine that any witch with half a brain knew to stay away from?
    “My father has made a bunch of man-made wolves. He kidnaps the homeless or drug addicts. For some reason, others decide to sign up voluntarily. I’m not exactly sure why.
    But he uses a combination of witch magic and science to make his wolf-army.” Rex scowled as he spoke. “The only problem is they don’t live very long. They’re addicted to a drug keeping them loyal to him. For the brief time they live as shifters, they are crazed, deranged and out for blood—specifically the blood of any member of the Westervelt Wolves.”
    “How would they even know you were here? And how do you know they’re around?
    We’re in a car, for goodness’ sake.”
    “My nose. They’re out there.” He pointed to the woods on the side of the road.
    “They’re running hard. They may tire themselves out and have to stop or they may catch up to us.”
    “We’re going really fast.” She looked at the speedometer. It read sixty miles an hour.
    “There’s no way a wolf can catch up to us.” She hoped. Elizabeth had never studied canines. It was possible they could run that fast but she doubted it.
    “These aren’t regular wolves. I can catch this car as a wolf and I’m not