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complete and totalstranger — okay maybe he wasn’t a complete stranger after all those goddamn emails but he was still unknown territory!
              Skidding to a halt, Fallon stood and tilted her head back, staring up at the skyline as if it would give her some answer as to why she’d seemingly developed a very miniscule obsession with a bear that had done nothing but harass her over the last few months.
              “Sometimes all a predator needs is to catch the right scent to know their prey.”
              Cree’s words came back in a creepy, hollow echo in her head, repeating over and over again until she lay on the ground, covering her maw with her paws and closing her eyes, trying to block it out. Ransom was not interested in her. He was after her land. And she was not in denial goddammit!
     

Chapter 4
     
              “Are you sure you want to do this?”
              Fallon barely bit back a low growl as she headed for her truck with Cree following. “ Yes.”  They’d been asking her that same goddamn question all morning. The day or reckoning was finally here, Ransom McKenna was thirty minutes away from landing at Eagle County Regional. And feeling ever so generous, Fallon had made the choice to play chauffeur for her guests.
              She and Ransom would be face to face soon enough. Fallon hadn’t stopped to examine why that thought caused something extremely close to butterflies to tumble around in her belly.
              “Because one of us can pick them up...or they can get a car or—”
              “Cree,” Fallon interrupted, turning around. “I’m going to collect the McKenna brothers from the airport and safely transport them here. You can help me by making sure their cabins are ready.”
              “That’s already been taken care of. We just need to do one more thing.”
              She shot the she-wolf a curious look. “What?”
              That’s when Cade, Makya and Anoki suddenly ambushed her, coming from God-knows-where to pin her to the side of her truck so Cree could frisk her. Frisk her!
              “What the fuck?!”
              “We love you, but we have to take precautions.” Anoki said. He looked to Cade. “Did you check the glove compartment, center console, and under the seats?”
              Fallon’s soon to be ex- assistant nodded. “Checked and double checked.”
              “Take out all the pens?” Makya questioned.
              “What am I?” Fallon snarled. “A goddamn assassin?”
              Cree continued to pat her down. “No, but you are crafty. I’ve seen you pick a lock with basic, non-lethal household items. That particular event didn’t exactly fill me with implicit trust.” She backed up and nodded at the men. “She’s clean.”
              “On the count of three?” Anoki asked the guys.
              Both nodded.
              “One—”
              Cade and Makya let her go as if she were a crocodile they’d had to transport into a new habitat, leaving Anoki to get the punch in the balls she’d been waiting to deliver.
              He crumpled to the ground. “Betrayers!”
              While they laughed, Fallon got into her truck and barely resisted the urge to run them all over!
     
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              “A bit tense, big brother?”
              Ransom looked up from his clenched hands, towards where Maddox sat next to him. “Why would you say that?”
              The other man briefly tucked in his lips before replying, “It may have something to do with the full-human officer softly sobbing over there at the coffee stand.”
    “I asked him to move so I could get honey packets. When I ask for someone to move I don’t expect a lot of resistance. Resistance makes me cranky. And when I get