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to her with the force of that accident. No
matter what, he’d take care of her for the rest of his life,
gladly.
    “We could go to Indiana, to Uncle Rhett’s
ranch. He could always use another pair of hands.” Ethan offered
and Eryx stopped his pacing and looked at him, and then nodded.
They’d need money, and small town deputies didn’t make much.
    A voice they recognized as Dr. Xavier Grace
interrupted their discussion, “Were you guys waiting to hear about
the Hunter girl?”
    “Doc, hey.” Ethan shook his extended hand and
Eryx did, too. Doc Grace was the only werewolf around these parts
and a friend of the family. “Yeah, how is she?”
    “Why did you even bother bringing her in?” He
gave them a look as if they were idiots and Eryx had the urge to
punch his teeth in.
    “Because she’s injured, she lost a ton of
blood, what do you mean why did we bring her in?” He sputtered at
the doctor, his fear taking hold. Did that mean she had died?
    The doc looked at them in confusion and then
a dawning of awareness scattered through his features. “Oh, you
guys don’t know? She’s perfectly fine. She woke up when they were
cutting her clothes off in the ER, but they wouldn’t let her go
until she was completely checked out. If you guys had known what
she is you could have saved the ambulance the drive out here. She’s
not human; she’s a wolf, like me.”
    Ethan was the first to get his voice to work.
“A wolf? Are you sure?”
    “Of course. I know my own kind. She’s rogue,
but definitely all wolf. She doesn’t smell like a wolf to you?”
    They both shrugged and exchanged long looks.
This was an interesting development. Doc Grace looked thoughtful,
“Maybe because it was cold out, so her scent was masked, but she
should smell like fall, like the woods. Maybe that’s just wolf to
wolf, I never asked how I smell to you guys. She’s weak, and has
some bruising and aches that haven’t healed yet, but the cuts are
gone. You can go see her now, if you need to fill out a report or
something?”
    Eryx snorted, “Something like that.”
    “Room 273. Good to see you both again. Tell
your dad I said hello.”
    They didn’t bother answering him and turned
to face each other. “This is incredible,” Eryx said, breaking the
silence.
    “It means we can stay, though. She’ll
definitely be able to handle the females.”
    “But if she doesn’t want to stay here?”
    Ethan shrugged. “I’m willing to do anything
to make her happy, Eryx. Here, the other side of the world,
wherever. If she’s rogue then that means she’s alone and she needs
us.”
    He hoped that was true. “Let’s go see our
Calliope.”
     

Chapter 4
    **Callie**
     
    She didn’t even want to know how much this
hospital bill was going to cost her. And where the hell was she,
anyway? And who brought her here? And where was her damn purse?
None of the nurses had answers for her, and once the doctor told
them she was a wolf, they scattered like bunnies, and not the tasty
sort. Helpful tip: when trying to blend into a town as a human,
don’t get looked over by the local werewolf doctor.
    She had no ID, but they somehow knew who she
was. And she had no clothes, because they’d cut off her favorite
pair of jeans and the rest of her stuff, and wherever the hell her
car was, her two suitcases were in the trunk so she had a stupid
hospital gown on and nothing to wear instead. The doctor had
offered to bring her scrubs and she’d accepted, but so far, no one
had brought her any. That was 20 minutes ago.
    This just wasn’t how she’d planned to spend
the night. Her body ached, but was thankfully healing. They’d
cleaned her up in the ER and found her wounds healed. She didn’t
know how long she was out for, but she didn’t remember anything
after her brakes went out. Feeling sorry for herself, and wishing
she could call Cadence for some commiserating, she reminded herself
she was trying to stand on her own two feet and make a new life.
She