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towards him with Nico by his side. They both had shoulder length dark hair and were in leather to make a silver blade have to work just a little harder to make contact.   Both damn good to see.
    The sirens sounded loudly behind him as Kelvin and Nico knelt beside Kole and Sarah, who was shaking uncontrollably now, curled against him, her face buried in his chest, his t-shirt damp from the outpouring of her tears.
    Kelvin, who was fifty years older than Kole and Nico, pulled a syringe out of his pocket and injected Sarah. She went instantly limp in Kole’s arms. “She’ll be fine,” he promised. “Get her to the ambulance and let me look at your burns.”
    “I’m fine,” he said, glancing behind him to see the ambulance with a Society logo. He scooped Sarah up again, feeling a combination of possessiveness and of a need to protect her.   There was something about this woman that the animal in him recognized and yearned for. “But I am riding with her.” His gaze lifted to the building, to the fire that had surely taken the lives of the wolves she loved, and he knew he had to be sure they were gone. “I need to go after her family.”  
    Nico narrowed his gaze and nodded, accepted Sarah into his arms. “They’re gone,” Nico said. “You have to know that.”
    Kole didn’t reply. He took off running toward the fire, dreading what he would find, and dreading even more so the moment he had to tell Sarah what he found.
    ***
    Sarah jerked to a sitting position in the back of the ambulance, alone and gasping for air. She could hear voices just outside the door, but neither of the voices were Kole’s. She was cold and shaking and she could feel the drug in her system. But she wasn’t like other wolves. Drugs didn’t work on her. She didn’t know why and she didn’t care. She just had to get to her family. She shoved off the bed and stood on wobbly feet, knowing she had get into that building.  
    She stopped at the ambulance door and leaned out to see what was happening. It was then that she saw Kole walking away from the flames. Alone. He was alone. He’d tried to find her family and he’d come back without them. Because they were dead. Dead. They were dead. Everything inside her seemed to turn to ice and shatter. She was shaking harder now but still she jumped down from the truck, glad Nico and whoever he was talking to were around the side of the vehicle, and she started running. She had no idea where she was running, just that she had to run. She had to get away. From this place, this reality, from Kole, who had saved her when she wasn’t even sure she wanted to live right now. God, why had he saved her and let them die? She hurt. She was broken. She ran.

Eighteen months later...
    Present Day
     
    Chapter Four  
     
    There was a woman, the country song playing in the crowded Ft. Worth, Texas bar declared. Wasn’t there always? Kole thought, tipping back his beer, and then set it back on the bar. Behind him was a packed dance floor and tables filled with patrons. Even with a few too many rowdy cowboys for his taste, it was still calm in comparison to a normal night at Benedantti, the club the wolves favored inside Paris Hotel and Casino. Past the hotspots VIP doors, there were no humans allowed, and wolves tended to let go a little too much. If they got out of hand, they answered to their Pack Leader. Pack Leader, a title that would soon be Kole’s as Nico had accepted a post with a Special Magical Task force that took fighting the rebels of their kind to a whole new level. A change that brought Kole back to the distraction he had to deal with before he assumed his new role. Back to the woman, to Sarah, who’d haunted his sleep for going on two years now, since she’d disappeared from that ambulance.  
    He’d looked for her after she’d disappeared from the ambulance, certain Derek had kidnapped her. All the more reason to hunt Derek with every free moment he had even after the council had