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A few days later, Noah recalled his mother’s request that he be careful. He looked out through the trees into a quarry. He was in lion form, hidden from view in the trees. Jake and Dane were nearby, also perched in the trees. They watched and waited. His days had been filled with unraveling the last of the secrets Callen Peyton left behind. His nights had been consumed with Lily—sense-stealing, heart clenching and devastating passion filled the hours with her. When they weren’t twined together, he enjoyed the funny sweetness of her personality, and her jaunty independence. She flashed through his mind now. His lion coiled with tension at the thought of her. He forced himself to focus on the moment at hand.
To Noah’s surprise, Theo had ended up talking to him and set the wheels in moti
