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each other, and the group quickly packed up their supplies and headed off – all except for Teresa, who gestured at Katrina to come talk to her.
    Katrina glanced over at Michael, who was standing five feet away.
    “Do you mind?” she said. “Private conversation here.” He shrugged and didn’t move. Scowling, Katrina lead Teresa another ten feet away.
    Maybe Teresa could give her some insight into whatever was happening with the Mordhaus pack, that she wasn’t seeing.
                  “I just wanted to say that maybe you should stay here,” Teresa said. “You fit right in, and Maddox is obviously crazy about you. No, don’t laugh! Everybody’s talking about it. Why do you think Lula is so jealous?  She wants Maddox, and he obviously wants you.”
                  “Is there a collective case of crazy going around here?” Katrina shook her head in astonishment. “Maddox does not like me.”
                  “Yes, he does,” Teresa insisted. “Every time there was some public event in town and both packs were there, I would see him watching you and ignoring all the other girls. He’s very handsome, isn’t he? And, you know – Alpha. Who doesn’t want to be with an Alpha? ‘Nuff said there, right?” she winked at her.
                  More than enough. What would Katrina even do if Teresa were right? But of course she wasn’t right. Maddox had never made a move on her. 
                  “Teresa, sorry to change the subject, but I need to know,” Katrina said. “Why did you leave our pack? Was there something that made you unhappy?”
                  “Well,  your stepfather is a bit…tempermental.” She smiled politely.
                  “Was he abusive? Everyone in town is acting really weird to me.  Maddox claims that it’s because my stepfather has alienated everybody.”
                  “I did not ever see him being abusive.” Teresa was speaking very carefully. Was she trying not to offend Katrina, or was she that afraid of Roman, even now that she was here at this camp?
                  “You know that I’d never tell Roman anything that you say,” Katrina said. “If there’s a problem with his behavior, I need to know. I can talk to my mother. He always listens to her.”
                  Teresa sighed. “Perhaps not as much as he used to.” She turned and walked away.
                  As much as he used to? They’d only been married three years. Katrina hadn’t noticed anything wrong between him and her mother, but then, she was starting to wonder if there was a lot going on that she hadn’t noticed.
                  She wondered what would happen to Teresa if her stepfather won. Surely Teresa must have been aware of that possibility. The Mordhaus pack would take over the Killingworth pack, and then Teresa would almost certainly have to pack up and leave the area entirely.
    She turned to walk back to towards the picnic table– and slammed into Lula, who was, for some reason, walking through the common area holding a hot bowl of soup. The soup spilled down the front of Lula’s shirt, and Lula screamed in pain and instantly shifted to wolf form.
                  Katrina followed suit, dropping down to all fours and growling, as the hair stood up on her back. The female was considerably bigger than her, but as the saying went, it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
                  The next thing she knew, Maddox was in between them in wolf form, snarling at the other woman.  The woman immediately let out a whimper, fell to the ground, and rolled on to her back to show submission.
                  Maddox shifted back to human form, and she and the woman did too. Now all three of them stood there naked. Katrina had to admit, the woman had quite the impressive