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"Don’t go there," she warned, even as she slid her own arlinting with sparks of red "And I won’t hassle you about Indigo"

He froze "How the hell do you healers pull that shit?"

"Trade secret" A hint of a s her eyes an allanced up "How come she’s so mad at you?" she asked with a blunt honesty that reminded him of Ben, the pup the healer often babysat for her friend Ava

"Not telling"

She scrunched her nose at hiht of the plan he’d hatched late last night "Oh, yeah, I’ about it" And the lieutenant would never see it coood-bye to her o found Hawke and they sat down to coordinate the pack’s resources "We have a lieutenantlater today," she said toward the end

"I re from his desk, he folded his arh his hair, hair that echoed the stunning color of his pelt in wolf for him hard

"Want to go for a run?" she asked, feeling more than a little twitchy herself "We could both use it"

The fact that Hawke didn’t even bother to pretend he didn’t need to let the wolf roa else "Wolf or hu in a way that e His eyes, too, shi her from a human face

"Huo"

By the time they cleared the den, her as at the forefront of her ht processes were no longer those of the cool, collected lieutenant They were of the ho lived in her soul--of her body, only her eyes would’ve reflected the change Though as they began to run, she felt her claws pricking at the insides of her skin and decided to let the out of the White Zone and into the thick darkness of the forest beyond, the trees whipping by in a blur of rich green and--as they began to cliher--the occasional splash of snohite She was damn fast, but she kneke could’ve outstripped her It wasn’t sih that played a part in it Her oolf didn’t want to outstrip hier part of it was that he was naturally faster

But she washim work for it, and that as ie her alpha when necessary--as it was an alpha’s job to look after his pack So Indigo ran the over fallen rocks and old trees, branches grazing her ar to slap her face, the wind a crisp knife across her skin

Her wolf gloried in the rush of speed, the pu with a packe, when there was only silence around thereen, and lake blue, that the wolf sighed and halted Hawke stood with his hands on his knees beside her, chest heaving and face glea back at her, the shirinned back, allowing herself to collapse onto her back on the snow-dusted grass, the chill a welcoeous crystalline blue overhead, Hawke’s eyes a curious and led in a way that was simply not huh, relax, and lie down beside her, their ar the edge of a growl

"So," she replied, her oolf prowling contentedly inside her skin

Shifting, Hawke raised hi down to nip at her lower lip in a quick, sharp bite

With those aold, many women would’ve taken what he’d done as a sensual invitation She olf She knew that co at her lip, she scowled "What did I do?" Because it had been a rebuke A playful one, sure, but a rebuke nonetheless

Hawke tapped her on the nose with his index finger "My wolf can sense that yours is in trouble Why didn’t you co hirohen he would’ve used his teeth on her a second time Yes, he was alpha, but she was a do, but it’s not anything I need your help to et a handle on the situation