ne's

call a human doctor for you?" Kieran ask

what I thought of right now, if I did, the chances that they would lock him

d to call a-human doctor!" I

h pressed down on me l

'll be back to check up on you." Kieran said in his still

f the door closing before I turned

ng a story about powerful werewolves. I wasn't the woman who had uncovered more than sh

have be

Alpha of the Silvercrest Pack. The woman who, according to ever

d... then what the h

a face that wasn't mine. Mate to the Alpha of the Silvercrest Pack. The woman who

d... then what the h

hat was once cut into a practical shoulder-length bob, was now long and silky and falling past my waist. My eyes-her eyes-w

ment I sank into it, the door creaked open and I immediately got

Wolfe again, M

ed that he had been the one to sink h

he watched me like I was a puzzle he couldn't solve. His dark eyes were unreadable, his jaw set in an

believe I

how I knew tha

ing darker-something wolf-curling around me. I

His voice was smooth, but

ng up in Raven's body, I had been scrambling to p

y voice to remain steady. "It

lightly. "Do you re

, then nodd

no, he might press harder. If I sa

ckered in his

as quiet, but it carried the

ard. "I don't

didn't change.

spine. My pulse st

was, sitting before him in her skin, speakin

keep them from shaking. "Then ma

t a good answer, but it

about to say. A woman stepped inside, her gaze dar

council is

right away. He just

. "Get dressed. You're

ly, trying to get a grip on myself, the world ar

ious that he had no idea that I was the journalist he had sunk his

ere any misstep could get me killed. And if Kieran, my supposed mate

play along, for now and

id aloud and spun around quickly, hopin

f relief. I turned to look into the mirr

n this!" I said quietly and ran my fingers over

othed in a night dress and had to ch

***

hands folded neatly in my lap, while six men and women-all high-ranking memb

nergy dark and unreadable. He hadn't spoken muc

aned forward, studying me. "You were dead." she spat

ion neutral. "So

n explain how you're sitting

I didn't know ho

" Kieran said, his voi

ked to him, then back

ghs beneath the table. "Do

o else would have something to ga

my death, don't you think I'd

mmediately f

to me. For every second I remained here, I risked slipping up-say

as starting to realize something; and it

death, there had been doub

too deeply about it,

lity," the gray-eyed woman said, eyes n

sharp jolt of p

fingers drumming against the table.

s is an i

mach t

ice firm. "Raven is back.

sed into a thin line,

of the meeting as my m

t me, they hadn'

ld grasp at that point was that Raven had been hiding something b

I was trapped in the middle of wh

was only a matter of time be