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Ryan's emotions flickered between fiercely protective and vaguely ashamed. The moments of protectiveness gave me hope, the moments of shame gave me despair. Another one of the alphas entered the small house at the same time Ryan reacted to something with a fierce wave of fear and anger, followed soon by a shocked surprise. What was going on? What was he thinking? We'd had a few difficult meetings in lives past, but this topped them all.
Something about this man sparked a memory and it took me a moment to decipher which lifetime it was from—this life. When Wamp and I had tracked the shifters after they had burned his cabin. I had attacked the one shifter with a fireball. He had survived—now that I was thinking back, I recognized him as one of the men in the forest.
Wamp had be
