I wondered what I was doing, but my curiosity and appreciation of beauty led me on.A few miles down the dusty road, the carriage swayed to a stop and ...the two Redcoats got down and headed for the woods, undoing their tight-fitting breeches as they went and laughing with each other. The driver followed, and I could not resist the opportunity so I jumped down, climbed to the seat, popped the whip and got the team galloping, following where my cock and curiosity led, as usual. I heard the door slam. "Mm," said Monaghan noncommittally. He shrugged delicately. "In any case, the one person who knew where the gems are is no longer in a position to tell us. The soil samples narrow us down to the one field in the area where soybeans were harvested last fall, but that's as far as we can get that way, and all our searches so far have turned up bupkes. Not a single stone." What more do you want?" demanded Parker. "If he'd taken even a few settings we could have found it with metal detectors, but. Then to his surprise she sniffed the air. Again she returned to stare at him"Yes, your what? Finish what you were going to say, cub," the elder demanded."You would have to kill me to make me stay away from my mate. Our bonding has already started."The pack just stood there for a moment then the growling started."HOW DARE YOU! HOW COULD YOU! DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?" I didn't know it was going to happen. She's human. It should not have happened at all. All I knew was that I had to be. He almost smelled the rubber of her gloves, the assault ofchemicals and antiseptics.And now she cried.Paralyzed by his feelings Lucian looked from one woman to the other. Hewas as confused by the headmistress's sick Smile as he was by the cryingdoctor. He could deal with the phony, superficial fa?ade offriendliness, having mastered it himself. But the tears seemed too real,too personal after all these months of manipulation and deceit."God," the doctor mumbled. "You look so much like him."He.