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anything but hurt.
    “We’ve been separate all along. And we’re getting smaller instead of larger. We’re fighting instead of getting better.” Shadow was already almost finished with his meal. He’d devoured it. Six months of being hungry and he didn’t let food hang around.
    “What can I do to help you?” I asked. He needed humans, and he had me in his spell. “I’d always thought the weird vibe in the Falls was something I gave off; it never occurred to me that it could be the town. Now it makes a lot of sense.”
    “You being here tonight helps me,” he said. My heart pounded when I met his eyes. “Maybe it wasn’t Major I needed all along. It was you.”
    The rest of the dinner passed in a haze. We kept talking, but all I could concentrate on was those three words. It was you. “Do you want to take a walk?” Shadow asked. “I haven’t been downtown since I was captured.”
    “I’d love that.” The night was warm and Granger Falls was gearing up for the ski season. Instead of hibernating for the winter, the town came alive. Shop owners were loading into store fronts, twinkle lights illuminated the walkways, and slivers of the pond were visible beyond the buildings. Bald Mountain stood proudly in the background, overseeing everything.
    “Do you ski?” Shadow asked. We’d been walking hand in hand but he’d stopped to look at the reflection of Baldy, as we called the mountain, in the pond.
    “No. It never appealed to me.” I braced myself for the inevitable how can you live in Granger Falls and not ski? Easy. I had no desire to fling myself down a mountain on greased sticks. Or volunteer to freeze my ass off.
    “Me neither.”
    “Really?” I almost gave him the same crap I hated. “What do you do to stay in shape?
    “I have—well, had been a contractor building houses.” Even emaciated, I could tell those muscles didn’t come from the gym. And Shadow was good with his hands. “And yoga.”
    That was the last thing I expected him to say. “No way.”
    “Way. It gets me out of my own head. You should try it,” he said. I gasped, he’d landed in my head. I hadn’t been expecting company there and it was always a mess. “I didn’t mean it like that.”
    “It would probably help.”
    “Give it a try. It’s not for everyone, but I always feel better after I’ve done it.” Shadow’s expression softened, and he leaned in close. “I’m always willing to try new things. Even if they don’t work out, I’m not left wondering what if.”
    His lips brushed against mine, our hair tangled together in the breeze. I sighed, letting him catch me before I fell into whatever black hole had strangled me for the last five years, the one where trying things resembled scary, twisted nightmares. The one that put up iron gates to keep Shadow out, even though the rest of me had been begging for him. The one that was scared by what he’d said at dinner.
    Did he want me or need me?
    With his tongue gently stroking mine, I didn’t care.
    Shadow’s big hands were on my back and in the middle of Granger Falls, a place I usually felt raw and exposed, I knew I was safe. Finally, it felt like home.
    Chapter Six
    Shadow
    I wasn’t sure if it was the wolf or man in me that wanted to crawl inside of Trina. She brought every one of my carnal desires to boiling beneath the surface of my skin. After six months in captivity, I’d forgotten it was possible to feel so alive.
    When she’d asked me what it was like to walk the line between two worlds, I should’ve given her a different answer. It was like walking on a high wire with no safety net. With Trina, I had balance, and could walk in both worlds.
    I wanted her more than anything. More than I wanted my freedom, more than I wanted to best Major. Trina was capable of understanding every part of me, and for that I’d do whatever it took to make her my Queen.
    Ever since the working class wolves of Sawtooth realized that we’d have to look beyond having a