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other, more interesting scenarios, I pulled up beside him. He looked over, surprised, and slowed to a stop.
    “Get in.”
    “What?” He stood rooted to the spot, looking at me warily as if I were trying to trick him.
    “Look. I’m worried about Kris. You know where she’s heading and, wherever that is, we can catch up to her much faster if I drive. Let’s work together. Get. In.”
    He hesitated, then nodded as he opened the door and sat down. He was massive, filling the passenger seat and then some, and despite apparently running as quickly as he could since he had left the apartment he wasn’t even breathing heavily.
    Noticing how uncomfortable he looked, shins pressed to the dashboard, I wondered if he thought the seat was fully reclined. “The seat goes back further if you want some more room.”
    “If I may ask, how?”
    “The lever? On the side of your seat?” I put my hand down the side of my own seat and adjusted it slightly.
    He nodded, reached down, and a second later the chair shot all the way back. The startled look on his face was priceless. He recovered quickly. “This is better. My thanks.”
    Not for the first time I wondered what rock he had been living under his whole life. “How do you not know how to adjust a car seat?” I laughed at his flat stare.
    “I have never been inside a car before.”
    My laughter cut off abruptly. “Really?”
    “We are wasting time. Please, I will direct you but we must hurry.” Knowing a change of subject when I hear one, I began driving as he directed me, eventually making our way to the road out of town. “We will stay on this road for approximately fifteen miles, then turn off.”
    There was a tightness around his eyes, he didn’t seem to be enjoying his first car ride. It took everything I had not to swerve around the empty road just to get him to react. I decided to press him for information instead. “Liam, what were you talking about at Kris’s? What’s really going on? Explain it in a way that I can understand. Please?”
    “There is still time to do this properly. I will follow the laws.”
    “What does that even mean? What laws?” My questions were met with that same flat stare before he simply turned away. Any further attempt to ask questions was met with solemn silence.
    Whatever was going on was going to drive me insane if someone didn’t start spilling the beans.
    A light rain had begun to fall as we arrived at the turn off. It was a well-traveled dirt road, not uncommon off the beaten path in New Hampshire. We followed the road for a few more minutes until an open area appeared out of the darkness that had clearly been designed as an impromptu parking lot. Several cars were already there, likely due to a campground nearby. I spotted Kris’s car and pulled up beside it.
    It was empty.

Chapter Nine
    Liam
    S tepping out of the car I breathed in my first Jen free air in what felt like an eternity. I did not need this kind of distraction, not now.
    Being out of the car allowed me to regain some of my composure. I vastly prefer my own two, or four, feet than being in one of these cars. So unnatural.
    Watching Jen exit from her side of the car I reinforced my decision that if I was going to take her for a mate I would follow the laws and ask permission from the alphas. I would explain my world to her, bring her into it, make her a part of it.
    She came around to my side of the car, stopping close to me, and peered inside Kris’s car before looking up to me. She looks so delicate, I have to protect her.
    No, that wasn’t my responsibility. Not yet.
    “They’re not here. What do we do now?” Her voice held the confidence that I would know what to do and she was expecting me to take the lead. Unfortunately, what needed to happen was the last thing I wanted.
    “You are getting back into your car and returning to your home.” I hated saying the words, wanting nothing more than to keep her next to me.
    “I want to help you.” It wasn’t