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    flexing with the movement.
    Lying down he’d seemed so nonthreatening. Not that she
    was worried that he’d hurt her, but looking at him now she
    was so aware of every part of him. Of how very male he
    was.
    She shrugged and pul ed out a couple chocolate bars, a
    box of graham crackers and a bag of marshmal ows.
    “Thought you might like the company.” Plus she’d needed
    to see him so badly it scared her.
    “I wanted to be alone,” he murmured.
    Her finger froze on the marshmal ow bag. Something
    tight cinched around her chest. He didn’t want her here.
    “No,” he hurried on, probably sensing her distress. “You
    don’t count. Okay, that sounds wrong, but I’ve never minded
    your company.” He scrubbed a hand over a face with a
    dark five o’clock shadow and shook his head. “I sound like
    a jackass, but you know what I mean. I want you here.”
    Feeling an invisible weight lift off her chest, she grinned
    and tossed the bag to him. “How are you dealing with
    everything?” She didn’t spel it out because she figured it
    was pretty clear.
    “I had a very real urge to take your brother’s head off
    today.” His voice was only half joking.
    Grinning, she pul ed out two long metal roasting sticks
    with wooden grips and passed him one. “I think that’s your
    right as Skyler’s big brother.” Gabriela paused a moment
    then decided to just plunge ahead. “So what does this
    mean for your pack and my family? And what’s the deal
    with the attacks? You know it’s not my parents or Israel and
    I’d stake my life it isn’t Dr. Shahi. And Axel might be a
    hothead but so is Ethan. I know Axel isn’t a kil er. He
    wouldn’t do anything to harm our family, not to mention he
    wouldn’t want to hurt Israel and Skyler’s relationship. He
    hero worships Israel. The only reason he attacked Daniel
    today was because he didn’t want anything to slow down
    getting Skyler to the doctor.”
    Owen blew out a long breath. “I forgot how much you talk
    when you’re nervous.”
    Gabriela scowled at him. “I do not.”
    His lips pul ed into a thin line as if he was biting back a
    smile. Just as quickly he shook his head. “There hasn’t
    been an attack in a couple weeks but we’re not letting our
    guard down. I don’t think it’s your family, though the rest of
    the pack isn’t so sure. Wel , now that everyone knows
    Skyler’s mating with Israel the tension has eased a little. I
    think they’re al just so happy we’re going to have a cub
    running around soon.”
    “You know the baby could be a jaguar.” Gabriela watched
    his reaction to her statement.
    Owen shrugged. “I don’t care and no one in my pack
    does, either.”
    She narrowed her gaze at him, wanting to believe him.
    He sounded so sincere and after the way he’d quickly
    welcomed her brother into his family, it was hard not to take
    him at his word. But his brother had stil kidnapped her
    earlier today. Clearly at least Ethan had issues with
    jaguars. “Seriously? No one cares?”
    “If it was anyone else having the baby, I honestly don’t
    know what the reaction would be but it’s Skyler .” Owen
    lifted his shoulders again as if he shouldn’t have to explain
    further.
    In a way, he didn’t. Skyler was adored by the entire pack,
    which went a long way in bridging whatever hostility had
    developed recently between their families. If it had been a
    decade long feud or something Gabriela doubted his pack
    would have been so welcoming but clearly these issues
    were recent. “So what’s the deal with the attacks?”
    “They started out of nowhere, first against a hunter who
    wasn’t where he should have been, but stil , no one in my
    pack would have attacked him. And he had a gun. Whoever
    went after him careful y hunted him and from the way his
    body was shredded it wasn’t the way a normal animal hunts
    or kil s. It was meticulous, had a purpose—almost like the
    bloodier and bigger display made, the better. Body