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Rob nodded. “Go.”

Boyd didn’t waste a second, steering Audrey out into the storm and to their wedding night at their cabin in the hills.

Only Rob, Marina and I remained in the barn. Rob looked to me and nodded again, giving me silent permission to tell her. Although, that fucking cat was out of the bag.

I turned to Marina and cupped her face. Beneath my skin, my cells vibrated with the need to claim her, but I forced the sensations down. “Remember, yesterday, you surprised me in the kitchen?”

She looked up at me from her tucked spot against my chest. “Yeah.”

I wiped her wet hair back from her face. Just like I had that first night. “I’ve got one of my own. Surprise. I’m a shifter.”

18

MARINA

I’m a shifter.

No, not just a shifter. Awolf.

They all were wolves.

Colton was part wolf.

WOLF!

Holy shit.

I felt like I was trapped in aTwilight Zoneepisode.

Audrey hadn’t been surprised.

She knew.

Of course, she knew. Her husband was part wolf.

That meant she knew Colton was part wolf, a shifter, and didn’t tell me.

I was going tokillher.

Yet, her knowing and being okay with it enough to marry one of them—and have his baby—was the one thing that kept me from totally freaking out. Like, if she’d already accepted it, I could, too. Right?

I saw a boy, unconscious, turn into a wolf. Like a transition in a movie. Could Colton do that? Couldallof them?

“Surprise? This was what you were going to tell me before… ” I pointed up.

It must have reminded him where we were, for he led me out of the damaged barn and tugged me beneath one of the overhangs, so we were out of the rain.

It was just like the other night when we met, standing in a downpour together. Now, we knew so much more about each other. Things I’d never,ever,imagined.

His brows dipped in concern. “Yes. Are you hurt?” He had a strong arm wrapped around me, but my knees wobbled so much from the adrenaline, I still feared I might collapse onto the ground. He wiped rain from my face, as if the rain might hide some kind of wound. Sniffed.

Oh God, now I knew why. He couldsmellme. I didn’t know what it meant exactly, but it was so obvious now.

“No.”

“I have to ask for your vow never to tell an outsider about us,” he said, his breathing ragged. We were both riled from the tree falling through the roof, but this was more. He was back to being intense, just like when we’d first met. “It’s extremely important, for the safety of the pack.”

I flipped through my mental notes on werewolves, and what I came up with scared the crap out of me.