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No. I don’t know.”
    “You do,” her father argued. “But now isn’t the time. Grab my hand.”
    She did, and he grabbed Fenris’ hand. In the blink of an eye, all three of them were in her bedroom in her house. Fenris lay on the bed. Her father and she stood on either side of it.
    “Make sure he takes this twice before tomorrow.” Rurik handed her a bag of herbs. “It will calm his pain and his troubled dreams. The ghoul toxin has a nasty after-effect.”
    “I will. Thanks, Dad.”
    “No, thank Fenris. This isn’t his fault, but he’s been thrust in the middle of it. Do the right thing, honey. Not for us or even for him, but for you.” He disappeared.
    Exhausted and knowing she had much more to do before she could rest, Rudra reluctantly left Fenris’ side and sought the council. She would have time enough to make the decisions she knew she needed to make. She only hoped she’d have the strength to make the right ones, no matter how much it hurt.
     

Chapter Five

    Fenris was damn tired of Rudra avoiding him. It felt as if the rest of the clan had come by in the past three days while he recovered from that nasty altercation in the woods. Yet the alpha couldn’t give him the time of day.
    His side itched, but when he moved to scratch it, Jericho caught his hand.
    “Shit.”
    “Easy, Goldie. You open that wound, and Rurik will have my head.”
    “Lucky you, babysitting duty.” Fenris glared.
    Jericho shrugged. “Someone had to do it. Unless you’d rather I let the Nash brothers back. Or how about Janice? She seems to like you, and she’s in heat.” He grinned, his amusement turning his face from sombre and scary to almost handsome. No wonder the ladies in the village liked the guy. Couldn’t be his sterling personality.
    “Janice?”
    “You know, the redhead with a bad dye job? The one trying to pass herself off as a blonde? I think she’s got it bad for the clan’s favourite golden boy.”
    Fenris cringed at thoughts of the touchy-feely red wolf. She smelled all wrong and seemed to have nothing on her mind but sex, which he used to find attractive in a woman. How times had changed. “No, thanks. She turns me cold.”
    Jericho smiled.
    “Why the hell are you so pleasant lately? It’s scaring me.”
    Jericho laughed. “No way a wolf can turn Janice down when she’s in heat. Except for you. Must be because you’re mated to the alpha. Man. How the hell did I not see this? I only thought you’d bring us back to the Great Forest . I had no idea you’d get Rudra’s panties in a bunch. The woman is so frustrated in love with you, it’s not funny.”
    Fenris paused. “She is?” Warmth unfurled at the thought. She’d been acting so cold lately, so distant that it hurt.
    “She’s hot for you, bro. But she doesn’t want you to pull anything. You took a pretty bad beating from those things in the woods.”
    Uncomfortable with all the praise he’d been receiving, Fenris shrugged. “I needed the challenge. And lucky me, they provided it. But you know, I’m needing something else really bad.” He squirmed, his dick in constant pain whenever he thought about Red.
    “Whoa, buddy. Sorry, can’t help you there.”
    “Asshole.” Fenris glared. “Red’s avoiding me. And I can’t get the bull-headed woman to stay put long enough to fix whatever’s wrong.”
    Jericho had the nerve to look relieved. “I can help with that. Wait here.” He left the room.
    Fenris rolled his eyes. Where else would he go? Rudra had appointed a bevy of guards to make sure he didn’t leave her house until she gave the okay. The confinement should have bothered him more, but here, in her bedroom surrounded by her scent, he felt a measure of peace. Now, if only he could make her stay put and explain why she’d been avoiding him. He had a bad feeling it had to do with his relation to Uncle Mike. And he didn’t know what to do about it.
    As he paced the room, trying to figure a way out of this mess, he wondered