![]() ![]() He'd only wanted to quiet her without speaking, to keep their presence a secret from the mother wolf who had to be nearby. He had touched her arm almost without thinking, and when it seemed she was about to scream, he'd put his hand to her mouth on instinct. The look on his face was so innocently happy it almost hurt her, and she forced a small smile to show him she had seen the hidden treasure he had shown her. ![]() Vaughn turned back to see if she had seen. And then, as her eyes focused to the proper depth and adjusted to the dimness, she saw a huddled mass of little furry bodies wriggling about. ![]() Then she saw it-a little spot of sunlight on a tiny grayish paw deep in the shadows of the hollow side of the hidden hill. Then she heard it, over the thudding that came from inside her. She looked, dreading, into the void where Vaughn's eyes told her to look. Some sign that Conrad was close by, that he had followed her. Even before she could dismiss those ridiculous thoughts she was filled with anxiety, dull and nauseating, that he had found something. ![]()
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