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"She’s very, very good" Riaz walked to stand beside her, his arroup complete one section of the circuit and o at the coursefor a while"
"This’ll be too easy for you," she said, fully confident that he would’ve continued to further develop his skills during his absence fro of interest "Is it the sa drastic" Reed him with her shoulder "I think you still hold the record for running the old course"
"Yeah?" Obviously pleased, he gave her a lazy s "Do it with me?"
Woman and wolf both read the hidden invitation behind the obvious one, hesitated, then shoved forward Because he was perfect There would be no games of one-upmanship with Riaz, no drain on her emotions or her self-confidence as she worried about whether her do to catch herself before she did soht dent his pride "Sure You free after this lot is done?"
He started to nod, then frowned "No, I have a videoconference with some of my European contacts Can we do it around four instead?"
"That’ll work" Even as she spoke, Drew’s note burned a hole in her pocket
Andrew had just put down the phone after getting hold of the last of the sroup of hout the pack--to warn them to keep an eye out for further atte wave of exciteainst his fur--though he was in human form
Poking his head out the door of his roo down the corridor "Eli, what’s up?"
"Indigo and Riaz are running the outdoor course" Elias’s words carried a hum of anticipation "You kno fast she is, and he holds the record No way to tell who’ll win"
Andrew felt his spine knot with tension, a freezing chill spearing through his veins "They starting now?" Somehow, his voice sounded noro to ground and de froh her head at this moment, knew exactly what her ould see in Riaz
"Yeah You co his door behind hiitated, but he’d always been good at keeping his emotions off his face His current work for Hawke had only refined that skill As he exited the den with Elias and jogged out to the training ground, no one would’ve been able to tell that he alking the sharpest of knife edges
"You going to take bets?" Elias asked with a grin
Since Andrew had been known to do just that on occasion when packed one another, he couldn’t fault the question "Not this tiht skin ht, to act as Elias expected hi to be easy, but he’d never expected Indy to kick hie of the run and the kick turned brutal Indigo and Riaz stood side by side, both of the thin black exercise pants hite stripes down the sides, as was Riaz The male lieutenant was shirtless, the tattoo on the back of his left shoulder striking against the naturally bronzed tone of his skin
But it was Indigo who caught not only Andrew’s but Elias’s attention as well "She’s beautiful, isn’t she?" It was a quiet comment
The wolf bared its teeth inside Andrew "You’rea beautiful piece of art," Eliasbeside me"
Andrew understood what Elias meant Dressed in those practical pants and a black tank that clung to her body like second skin, her hair pulled off her face in a tight ponytail, Indigo was beauty without orna, lethal beauty And an instant later, she was beauty in o was liquid lightning as she scrambled up the etting up But he had the advantage in the next section, which was all about upper-body strength They were neck and neck as they crawled under the rope-mesh maze, their bodies ht up a steep, steep cliet you disqualified
Indigo slipped, fell back on the slick log, but ed her to get up She did