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didn’t you do that?”
    “No, I was just trying to calm her down. It kind of wasn’t
necessary.” Riley smiled. “Think you had it all under control. As soon as she
relaxed, her body decided it needed the rest.”
    Riley moved to the chair. “I wanted to tell you what Brett
said.” Riley shook his head at Mac’s look. “Nothing on the
nurse yet.” He sighed. “Lisa’s mating cycle is complicating everything. Alpha
females are different to even female wolves.”
    “And female bears,” Mac put in sardonically.
    “Yeah, apparently even Brett had to make some calls as he
hasn’t been in a wolf pack for a long time.”
    They both knew Brett’s story. Brett was a wolf shifter and
had grown up in a very traditional pack. He was in a bad car accident when he
was a kid, and because he was trapped for a long time before help got there,
unable to shift and heal himself, his leg was permanently damaged. The Alpha had
told him, in no uncertain terms, that he wasn’t welcome as he could no longer
hunt, and he had ended up at Raleigh Point. He got about okay, but he couldn’t
run. It was worse when he shifted. Every year, their mom and dad held a party
for shifters who had been brought up at Raleigh Point, and last year Brett met
Angie. They mated, but because Brett knew he wouldn’t be accepted into her pack
with his injury, Angie had agreed to live with him at Raleigh Point.
    Riley grinned at Mac’s startled expression. “What do you
know of alpha female mating cycles?”
    “Well, up to yesterday, I would have said I didn’t want to
know anything.” God, he could feel the blush starting in his neck. How old was
he, fifteen?
    Riley laughed and stood up. “To give you the shortened version,
it lasts up to two weeks, comes every six months or so, and we don’t know when
she started. It’s magnified about fifty to one hundred times what other female
wolves go through. Apparently once she hit twenty, it would have gotten worse.”
    “Why? What’s so special about being twenty?”
    “It’s traditionally the age of maturity for female wolves.
Female alphas are in a constant state of err… arousal.” Riley blushed. “Apparently
it’s quite serious. I mean bad health wise. Err… you’ve seen the other effects.”
    Mac glowered.
    “Most females take painkillers when they get bad cramps, but
that’s the problem here. I don’t want any drugs in her system. Human
painkillers aren’t strong enough to have any effect anyway, and she’s still got
a lot of crap swirling around in there. We can’t give her anything else.”
    “But you can help surely?”
    “Actually no, not this time.” Mac watched in surprise as
Riley looked at the floor.
    “Brett said the only way to help was to relieve her, and I
think you would have my balls if I so much as looked at her.”
    Mac was dumbstruck. He was so surprised, his bear wasn’t
even territorial about the thought of Riley getting anywhere near her.
    “Riley, I can’t, not when—”
    “I don’t mean full penetration, idiot. Christ, Mac, you have
a girl usually on each arm, don’t tell me you can’t be inventive.”
    Mate.
    Mac’s face heated. He wanted to say so much to Riley, but
there was no way he was having this conversation. “I’ll figure something out.”
And he nearly growled at Riley’s delighted grin as he strode to the door.
    “If it’s any consolation, her mind seemed pretty clear. I
don’t think you’ve got that to worry about.”
    Riley stopped at the door. “It reduces dramatically once you
two mate.”
    Well, hell.
    Lisa chose that moment to rub herself up and down Mac in her
sleep like a little cat, and eased herself closer to him if that were even
possible.
    Mac’s jaw hardened, and damn if his dick didn’t too.
    Shit, it was going
to be a long week.

 
     
     
    Chapter Four
     
     
    Mac read throughout the day while Lisa slept. He took a
phone call from Miranda, the F.B.I. agent he worked with, giving him an update
on a missing