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inner-wolf howling, begging to be let out.  “Can’t you follow anything I say?  I told you both to keep away from her.  She wanted space.”
    “Aidan,” Tommy choked out in a hoarse voice.  He stood up and stepped in front of me, placing a hand on my shoulder , and squeezed.  “Keep it together, kid.”
    I closed my eyes, taking in a deep, centering breath.  It didn’t help.  God, was her scent getting stronger?
    “Jade doesn’t know what she wants,” Dominic whispered.  “And Trevor found tracks outside Mac’s house this morning.  She can’t stay at home.  Her dad won’t let her move in with her mate and he won’t let Trevor stay there, so being at Jade’s with the team always hanging around is the safest place for her.”
    I glanced at him then, my scent still flaring, and he shuddered.  His eyes were fu ll of concern, full of misery.
    “Aidan,” Chris growled through his teeth.  “Tone the scent down.  It went well.  She’ll see her dad in the morning.  Play up the Jared bit and then meet us.  He won’t see it coming.  And it will give you exactly what you need.  The more time you spend with her, the better chance you’ll have at getting her away from Jared.  We went over this.”
    “You don’t get it!” I snarled.  “That team has never agreed with anything I’ve said.  And, Jade, she’s not that easy to convince of anything.  Something’s not right here.  Something else is going on.”  The rational part of my mind knew he was right.  Everything was going as planned and tomorrow I would have the entire day to try and talk to her, beg her to forgive me, but the other part was crazed, furious that she had left with him — again.  Right then I was certain she had given up on me.
    An uneasy silence crowded the room.  Tommy dropped his hand from my shoulder, and took a step back.  He huffed out a breath.  “Look, kid, we have to get going,” he said.  “You heard Jared, he wants us to stay with Landon.  Don’t want to give that team any reason not to trust us.  We’ll email you with anything we find out.  Get some sleep.  It’ll look better tomorrow.”
     
    ~ JADE ~
     
    I had to force myself out of the house, one foot in front of the other.  I felt wrecked.  Shattered.  Jared wouldn’t talk to me.  I got in the truck.  We dropped off the team.  And still he hadn’t said a word.
    Aidan’s scent clung to me.  On my skin.  In my hair.  Could Jared smell it?  Was that the reason for his maddening silent treatment?  He had to know I let Aidan take me into his arms.  He had to know that my heart was still racing; that my inner-wolf was doing back flips, begging me to go back.  That had to be it.  The problem was I didn’t really care if he knew.  Did that make me a bitch?  Probably.
    He pulled into my driveway.  Turned off the truck.  He didn’t move.  I shifted in my seat, opened my mouth, and then shut it.  His knuckles were white.  His jaw, clenched.  The muscles in his forearms, straining.  He had never been this mad at me before, not even when I wasn’t one of them and despised the pack.  I swallowed hard, popped the door open, and got out.  He would talk when he was ready.  Hopefully.
    Mom was sitting on the couch when I walked in.  She glanced at me as I went by and frowned, but didn’t say anything.  I figured I looked as bad as I felt.
    I went straight to my room, sat on the bed, and waited.  And waited.  And waited.
    The glowing red numbers on my alarm clock flipped by, minute by agonizing minute.  An hour passed and still Jared hadn’t come in.  I wondered for a moment if he had left, but I knew I would have heard his monster of a truck start up if he had.
    I sighed and spent a few minutes debating on whether I should go back out there and try to talk to him.  But instead of facing him (yeah, I was being a coward) I dug my phone out of my pocket and fired off a message to Erika asking her where she’d been all