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Nathan McLaughlin,” Hunter told Drake.
    Drake looked up over his reports. Hunter knew he had his friend’s attention. Drake was better at disguising his lust for a beautiful woman than Hunter was, but Hunter knew he felt it passionately all the same. Morgan Richards was one beautiful woman they had both set their sights on.
    “I got it out of old Doc Hughes,” Hunter began. “He was at my card game in the bar last night. I spotted him a hundred bucks for the information he had on McLaughlin’s case.”
    Drake laughed. “I hope you had a hand to back it up, my friend.”
    Hunter knew he was a wicked card player. He never cheated. He was just always lucky. His card playing was much like his relationships with women. Winning came easy to Hunter. At that moment, his bad-boy smile had never been darker as he thought about Morgan Richards.
    “I had a flush,” he announced. His victory in cards over the old country doctor already behind him, he was ready to move onto other challenges, namely the seduction of Morgan Richards.
    “So what did Doc Hughes tell you about McLaughlin?”
    “He’s sick—real sick.”
    “And?” Drake probed him for more.
    “He’s got a shifter disease. It’s a rare one, from what I understand. He’s dying as a man. The doc told him he had to shift back into his wolf and stay. If he didn’t, he was going to die.”
    Drake raised his eyebrows. “So the man is dying and the wolf is not.”
    “Exactly.”
    “Will he be stuck as the wolf for the rest of his life?”
    “The doc doesn’t know. He gave him a fifty-fifty chance of returning at some point in the distant future. But at the moment, he isn’t even able to shift back into a man.”
    Hunter watched his friend get up from his desk and walk across the trailer. Drake always was more sensitive about things like this than Hunter was. Hunter just wanted to take what he wanted. The consequences never bothered him. But Drake was different. Hunter was always telling him he had too big of a heart. Hunter thought that big heart would probably get his friend in trouble someday if he wasn’t careful.
    “Doesn’t it bother you we’re thinking about taking advantage of another man’s misfortune?” Drake asked him. “McLaughlin is a shifter just like we are. If fate had fallen a different way, that could have been one of us stuck out there in those woods as a wolf.”
    “Not me, man,” Hunter said. Hunter knew he was being callous about the whole situation, but the fire in him Morgan Richards had set was burning too hot for him to care. “If I had a woman who looked that good, I would never leave her alone.”
    “From what you just told me, McLaughlin didn’t have any choice.”
    Hunter gave a shrug. These were too many details for him. He just wanted to get into the action. “I’d find a way to stay with the pretty lady. I wouldn’t let a little thing like dying keep me out of her bed at night.”
    “The more I think about this, I don’t really know if it helps us any,” Drake said. Hunter could see his friend’s excessively calculating brain working overtime, while all Hunter wanted to do was get out there to Morgan Richards and start the seduction.
    “She’s out at McLaughlin’s house all alone, just waiting for a couple cowboys like us to come along and rescue her,” Hunter reminded Drake.
    “McLaughlin’s wolf is also out there. He might not take kindly to us moving in on his woman.”
    “That’d be a pretty badass wolf to tangle with,” Hunter admitted, but he still was not about to be deterred. “But if Nathan McLaughlin is any kind of self-respecting shifter, he won’t want his lady to be left all alone. He might even want us to take care of her while he’s away.”
    “You could be right about that.” Drake’s mind was still working hard. “If we go out there and take care of her, she’ll still be around when he gets back—if he gets back.”
    “That’s right. We’d be doing him a favor.” Hunter