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Jason won’t share. Little idiot thinks he’s too smart for us. Maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s good he’s moving away,” the other brother commented.
    “So what, you want to go back and deal with this Roderick guy or what?”
    Ned answered, “No. Not yet. I want him to meet Dad first. With all of us there together, he’ll shit a brick for sure. I’ll take him aside, talk to him nice-like.” His brothers snickered. “Then he’ll leave town and leave Julia behind. Once she sees the real me, she’ll be begging for it. Hell, if she’s as good as she looks, maybe I really will marry her, and she and I can get to work on making Mama those grandkids.”
    “And if she doesn’t want to?”
    “She will.” Ned’s surety raised Ty’s hackles. “One way or another, that woman’s going to belong to me. No one says no to Ned Williams.”
    Long after they left, Ty followed their path back to their truck. He then trailed their tracks through the woods toward a rundown house full of people. At least a half dozen wandered in and out of a wood and brick house. Off to the left sat a barn full of tools and a still, complete with moonshine and the requisite old men reminiscing to fit the picture. A family reunion, Ned had said. Terrific.
    Quietly, Ty skirted the barn and trotted around the house, only to come nose to nose with a Husky sleeping downwind. The dog opened his eyes in a flash and let out a series of warning growls and barks. The only thing keeping him back was the chain around his throat.
    Ty slipped away from the attention drawing near and ran back into the woods.
    “Damn, that’s the second fox I’ve seen this week. Not as red as the other one that keeps hanging around, though. Get your gun, son. Time to go huntin’.”
    A glance over his shoulder showed an older version of Ned—same large frame, same dirty brown hair but threaded with gray, same mean, squinty brown gaze.
    Then what he’d said dawned on Ty, and he raced back the way he’d come. Not as red as the other one.
    Ty was going to paddle Julia silly for putting herself in danger. Because he knew, without a doubt, that Julia had been staking out the perceived threat to protect her sisters.
    He’d put an end to that. The vixen wouldn’t put herself in danger anymore, not now that she had Ty to protect her.
    The return trip through the woods took a long time. His run no longer freeing, Ty felt every mile between himself and Julia like one great distance he had to breach. When he saw the light of her cabin glowing in the distance, he sighed with relief. Not only tired, but hungry and annoyed as well, Ty had a few choice words to share with Julia, Gabby and Meghan.
    He froze outside the back door, catching Jason’s scent. Dammit, I forgot about dinner with him.
    Making up his mind, he scratched at the back door and let out a yip.
    “Did you hear that? I’ll be right back,” Julia said loud enough to be heard back in Cougar Falls. Obviously his woman hadn’t mastered the art of subtlety.
    His woman?
    The minute she opened the door and looked at him, everything clicked.
    Hell yes, his woman. For now, just for now , the independent male inside him reminded.
    “Open a back window. And hurry the hell up,” he shared with a snarl, eager to yell at her for daring to skirt the Williams homestead.
    Ac-taw in their animal forms spoke using body language and a shared telepathy with others of their kind. Communication was generally not a problem. Unless the stubborn woman you were trying to talk to slammed the door in your face.
    With a wry grin at the gauntlet she’d thrown, Ty mentally picked it up. That’s right, baby. Game on. Nobody outmaneuvers Ty Roderick, not even one very delectable, sexy female. And I’m really going to enjoy making you pay.

Chapter Four
    Julia contained her shout and pasted a smile on her face. “Must have been an animal scratching at the door. No one’s there,” she said in a loud voice. Meghan’s and Gabby’s