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  His shirt came down to her knees, covering everything he’d been leering at a few minutes ago. “I wasn’t really thinking. You probably want to change back to get out of here instead of walking barefoot.”

  “No,” she said too quickly. “I’m fine like this. Thanks for the shirt.”

  “No problem.” He glanced at the wolf—dead, a neat, fast kill. Merciful. “Walk back with me?”

  She hesitated, then nodded and fell into step beside him. “I didn’t know you were on this one. No one at council headquarters tells me shit.”

  “I volunteered.” Patrick shrugged. “Not that Alec tells me much, but Julio’s always willing to put me to work.”

  “It’s not that you’re not handy to have around,” she muttered. “If it sounded that way, it’s not what I meant, okay?”

  “You just sounded like you wanted to be in the loop. I don’t blame you.”

  She sighed almost inaudibly. “How have you been?”

  No one asked that question wanting to know the answer. Not really. “Doing good. Living the posh life in the Southeast council headquarters. I’m surprised Julio and Sera don’t bully you into coming over for family dinners.”

  Anna stopped and looked up at him until he met her gaze. “How have you been, Patrick?”

  Stupid him. Anna wasn’t everyone else. “Still in one piece, more or less. You?”

  “Same as ever.” She fidgeted with his shirt, her fingers clenching in the black cotton. “Are you careful?”

  The thought that she cared could make a man giddy, but he’d been dancing with Anna for too long to let himself cherish that hope. She blew hot and cold depending on the weather or the phase of the moon or the day of the week.

  But she seemed sincere enough, so he bit back the snippy reply he’d given the last person to ask that question. “I’m not out to get myself killed, I promise.”

  She frowned, intense and troubled. “I don’t know if I believe you.”

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  Moon Shine

  Copyright © 2014 by Vivian Arend

  ISBN: 978-1-61922-249-6

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