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blanket. Yes, it had gotten too cold, and his gaze lingered on where she’d jerked the blanket back around her.
    “Yes.” He finished loading the wood then favored her a mild look. “Stay.”
    Thirty minutes later, he experienced a rough pleasure of her squeal of delight in the bathroom. The generator was old, but he’d maintained the equipment. He used it sparingly in large part because he liked a hot shower now and then. He had an outhouse located some distance from the cabin, but she’d not asked to use the facility. Once she’d settled into her shower, he checked the area then remembered the wolf he’d left in the snow.
    It couldn’t be helped before, but he’d have to deal with Garrick’s body today. Making short work of the cleanup, he found himself listening to Saja in the shower. When her alto climbed with some song, he grinned.
    The woman really didn’t have a quiet bone in her body.
    So complete was his distraction, he wasn’t prepared for the thump of boots on his porch, which gave him a scant few seconds to recover before Drew knocked on the door. “Ryker, came to make sure you got through the storm okay.”
    Surprise slid through him—no one checked on his welfare. After stalking across the room, he pulled the cabin door open to the Alpha’s grinning face, but before Drew could utter a word of greeting, Saja’s song grew. Surprise replaced the other Wolf’s smile as his nostrils flared. Ryker schooled his features to reveal nothing—not that he could hide her presence. Younger than he by more than a couple of decades, Drew had lived among the humans for ten years, only returning to the pack in the last few months.
    The Alpha stepped inside the cabin, his gaze going to the chair, the suitcases, the fire, then finally back to Ryker as Saja let loose with another set of lusty lyrics amidst the sound of the water falling. Ryker kept his own counsel, offering nothing until he got a sense of Drew’s intent.
    Humans weren’t supposed to be in Black Hills territory much less his cabin. Protecting the pack came first. The Alpha’s primary duty was the safety of the pack. Ryker’s was to enforce the law.
    “Okay, I’ll bite,” Drew said with a slow grin. “Why do you have a human in your shower?”
    “She’s mine.” Meeting and holding his Alpha’s gaze, Ryker’s response had the effect of a bomb dropped into the middle of the conversation.
    He’d found her. Until Drew confronted him, he hadn’t realized he planned to keep her.

 
     
     
Chapter Four
     
     
    “Yours in what sense? You’re not cleaning her off to eat her? I think it’s been five, six decades since we performed a human sacrifice, right?” The amusement in his tone dried up at Ryker’s flat look.
    The enforcer didn’t have a specific answer to his question.
    “No, seriously, man, what’s the human doing here?” Drew’s face fell, the mask of the Alpha erasing the last semblance of humor. “Because you know she can’t be yours. Humans have always been forbidden.”
    His sigh rumbling with a growl he refused to let out, Ryker motioned the other man farther inside.
    “Her car broke down.” Then, before he forgot, “Garrick turned down your offer.”
    Drew snarled, looking skyward. “Garrick was too far gone. I should have ended him myself. It feels like every Wolf needs a chance. We’re too broken, too destroyed to let anyone go without a fight. But still, I knew he’d crossed over. This makes my point. You, of all of us, know why your human in the shower is a very bad idea.” Drew paused, his eyes widening. “Shit, Ryker. Yours? As in your mate? Have you attached to a human?”
    Mate? In the shower, Saja’s song climbed to a conclusion then gave way to one about ninety-nine balloons. The odd lyrics fit her. Fun seemed to explode in her tone. The unsettled feeling swamping him from the moment he met his little human on the side of the road snapped into place. The burn of mate potential should have left