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be watching, and Donovan would make sure that was all they did, until they smelled her arousal. Then all bets were off. Those who hadn’t mated in a while would consider her fair game. And the others would definitely report the scent of her heat back to Dane. The second he could live with. The first? Not a chance.
     
    He shook her off of him then backed up a few feet and growled. She got up on all fours and stared at him. Jason sniffed the air. They didn’t have time for this. Her scent was getting stronger. She growled back.
     
    He nipped at her. This time letting his teeth slice a little cut in her skin. She jumped back, and he surged forward. She moved back again; then she started to run. He easily kept up with her. When she tried to veer to the left or right too much, he growled deep and butted his head against her hips. By the time the cabin came into sight, he could feel the anger rolling off her. Which was too damn bad.
     
    He followed her onto the porch and pushed her inside. Once she was safely in the house, he scanned the woods. There were four other wolves in those trees besides Donovan. They were watching, but not interacting. Which meant Dane had a plan.
     
    He shifted, then used his arms to crawl into his chair. He wheeled back into the house. Donovan would report back after he followed Dane’s spies back to the man. Jason pushed through the slightly ajar door and slammed it. He watched Gio pacing the living-room floor. That little bite was going to cost them. It would make her wolf stronger. Kind of like taking a double dose when one was more than sufficient.
     
    “Why the hell did you do that?” Her eyes blazed a vibrant blue.
     
    “Did you not hear Donovan and I talking about people trying to kill you?” Anger flowed up from his stomach as his words hit him square in the chest. The taste of it burned his throat and tongue.
     
    “Honestly, no.” Her anger seemed to whoosh out of her with those two words. “When the idea to run hit me, it turned into the most important thing. I might have heard the word kill , but it didn’t matter. I just needed to run. I couldn’t stop myself.”
     
    He’d told her that her wolf could take over. She hadn’t believed him. She hadn’t been prepared. She should have been.
     
    “Seems your wolf wanted to come out and play.” Her wolf would have to be very strong in order to take over just to run.
     
    “You told me as long as I kept her satisfied, she would be dormant.”
     
    “Look, it’s not as if I do this every day. It’s different for everyone.”
     
    “What’s so different about me?” She stopped and stared at him.
     
    “I don’t know. Maybe because you were bitten by an Alpha? I have no idea. All I know is if you go outside again, Dane and his men will snatch you and kill you. Until the solstice, you need to stay here.”
     
     
     
    Gio heard him, but this was crazy. Why kill her? It wasn’t like she’d done anything to anyone else in the pack. “I still can’t really wrap my head around the fact that they want to kill me because I’m here with you?”
     
    “To get to me.”
     
    “And why do they want to kill you?”
     
    “Because I used to be the Alpha. I’m the one that made all the rules about how to deal with humans, about how to handle the newly converted wolves—all of this.” He waved his hands in the air.
     
    “This is your fault.” She took a couple of really small steps. “Well then, you can fix it, right?”
     
    “No. I used to be the Alpha. After the accident, I stepped down.” He moved the chair back and rolled around her.
     
    “Why?”
     
    “Why what?”
     
    “Why did you step down?” She followed him into the bedroom.
     
    “Why the hell do you think? An Alpha has to be able to take all comers. How the hell am I supposed to do that with this damn chair and only two good legs in wolf form?” He turned on her, almost running over her foot.
     
    Gio stumbled back into the wall, then quickly