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made him more comfortable with her?
    As for the goofy wolf comments, she couldn’t seem to help herself. When she was nervous, out came speculative werewolf comments better left to wander around inside her brain. She was allowed to be nervous. He was a werewolf .
                  Three heartbeats later …Wait a minute—meet the pack? Cool! Maybe dangerous? Hmm. This required a consult with Kenna. Lizzie couldn’t rely completely on her own judgment when making magic-related decisions. With this most recent revelation—werewolves were real, really real—Lizzie vacillated between thinking she was still the relatively rational person she’d always been, and thinking she was just a little bit out of touch with reality. That’s probably what made her pass out. Conflicting versions of reality were colliding and exploding in her brain.
    “I need a consult. Be right back!” Lizzie was off to Kenna’s table before he could protest, or worse, make her sign some wolfy confidentiality agreement. She was sure he had one stashed in a back pocket just for her. 
    Approaching Kenna’s table, she nodded her head in the direction of the exit. Kenna grabbed her bag and her latte, linked arms with her, and headed out the door. 
    “Emergency consult was needed,” Lizzie said, “and for all I know he has super hearing. I just received an invite….” At this point she looked around checking for any accidental eavesdroppers. Seeing no one loitering near the coffee shop’s entrance, she continued. “I just received an invite to visit the pack’s headquarters. How cool is that! Or is it not cool and very, very dangerous? I can’t decide, so I need some advice.”
    Kenna ’s response wasn’t completely unexpected. “This is what you want to discuss? There’s a great looking, apparently polite, seemingly not broke, well-dressed guy in there, and you don’t even stop for a quick gossip to speculate on his availability, or his interest in you. Yes, visiting a werewolf pack would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And you could learn about things most people don’t even know exist. But—could you minimally multi-task and think about the magic stuff and about the delicious man?”
    Interestingly, Lizzie —who didn’t usually think much about dating—hadn’t been able to stop thinking about whether John might be in a relationship, or possibly even married. She’d noticed he wore no ring. Many guys didn’t wear rings—or any jewelry, for that matter. But maybe it was a werewolf thing. It made her a little bit sad to think he might be with someone else. Putting those thoughts aside for the moment, Lizzie turned the conversation back to her invitation.
    “I’m sure John has his own agenda for inviting me. But I’m not sure I can pass it up. Being around magic and people who know about magic, even if it’s different from mine… I’d love the opportunity to go. And what’s the point of being one of the few people in on the big werewolf conspiracy, when I don’t actually know anything about werewolves? So annoying.” Lizzie grinned. “Wouldn’t you like to have my problems?”
    Kenna laughed. “I do have your problems. Why else am I standing in front of a café on a Thursday afternoon when I’m supposed to be at work? By the way, you owe my boss some flowers. You know how much she hates for me to step away from the office. She swears the whole place grinds to a halt when I’m gone.”
    Her boss wasn’t entirely wrong. Kenna’s position as a legal secretary for a local boutique firm paid her bills and made her happy. She was very good at her job and much appreciated by her boss, one of the firm’s managing partners.
    Lizzie replied, “On a more serious note, as much as I would like to be led by my curiosity, common sense says not to wander off with a man I’ve known for such a short time. Would you know how to do a background check on him? I know you work with investigators sometimes. He hasn’t