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gone out of their way to return her safely to her pack.
    Slowly she took her seat, her opinion of Bob suddenly grossly changed. Keeping the information from the pack allowed them to continue to harbor suspicious and angry thoughts toward Malta werewolves. Prejudice and hatred would grow now with the murders. And Bob wouldn’t do anything to stop it.
    Hairs prickled down her spine. She focused on her hands, which she clenched in her lap, and ignored Steve, Tamara and Martin’s curious looks and the smell of concern on all of them. The moment the meeting ended, she jumped out of her chair, nearly leaping over Steve and marching toward the door.
    “Heidi,” Bob yelled, while everyone around them began descending on the food traditionally brought to a pack meeting. Everyone shared his or her kill after sharing pack news.
    More than anything, she wanted to ignore her pack leader, leap out into the cold night and run until her anger subsided. Her bones ached to change, to grow and give her freedom. A hard, fast run, tearing through her town and possibly even up the mountain sounded a hell of a lot better than the pending reprimand she was about to get. Although pack law strictly forbade single females to run alone, at the moment she didn’t care.
    She turned slowly. This was her pack. She wouldn’t ignore her leader or their ways.
    As much as it pissed her off at the moment, her lunewulf blood ran strong. Disrespecting 26
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    her pack leader would be an open statement that she had turned her back on her pack.
    And she had no intention of doing that.
    When she reached Bob, he took her gently by the arm and pulled her to the side.
    With his back to the pack and her facing him, she saw the many curious looks others gave them. They sniffed the air, dying to know what her pack leader would say to her.
    And more than likely, most of them concluded he would give her a polite reprimand for her outbreak during the meeting.
    Bob ran his hand over his head, searching her face while he struggled with whatever it was he would say.
    “You have a lot of respect in this pack,” Bob began.
    Heidi nodded, unable to argue the point.
    “And finally I’ve been able to give you your own den. No one has harassed you there, right?”
    “No one.”
    Bob nodded. “You’re a grown bitch, but a sheltered one. I’ve never forced you into a mating, and I won’t do it now. But you have the respect of all males in this pack. None of them would harm you or try to rape you in your fur. I’m sure of it.”
    “What are you getting at?” She didn’t like the smells coming off him. It reminded her of her sire when he tried lecturing her on being a good bitch. She shoved the memory out of her head. Her parents had been dead for years now, and she wouldn’t confuse her thoughts by dwelling on them during this discussion.
    “Those Malta werewolves brought you back here with ulterior motives. It was as easy to smell as your anger and frustration now.”
    Heidi stared into his pale blue eyes. “Not once did either of them try to rape me,”
    she hissed. “I sat with one of them in the truck and he never touched me.”
    She wouldn’t mention that he touched her in her den. That was none of Bob’s damned business.
    He glared at her as if he already suspected the truth. “I’m taking into consideration what their pack leader told me. But the truth is, he could have told me that to cover the fact that they planned the murder that happened this morning.”
    “No.” She shook her head. “How can you see it like that? They are our neighboring pack. That won’t change. Yet you’d allow prejudice and hatred to grow over these terrible deaths. Here is our opportunity to learn more about them. You should be seeking them out, not accusing them without question.”
    She’d pushed him too hard. Silver streaked through his eyes while his short hair suddenly looked tousled around his head. “Now listen here, Heidi. And hear me