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  “You’ll need to explain insurance to me one of these days,” she made herself joke. Then she got serious. “And also about what your special unit’s all about and how you’ll be dealing with the situation here.”

  “Sure,” Jock responded. “Once we’ve done our recon and we see what we’re actually up against.”

  But why was it that Kathlene had the sense that the last thing that hot, amusing, obviously determined Jock Larabey wanted to do was to let her know what Alpha Force was really about?

  “I’ll give you my schedule,” she told them. “I’ll want to be with you as much as possible.”

  “No need,” Jock said. “We’ll handle it.”

  She glanced at him. He was sharing a look with Ralf that clearly excluded her. What weren’t they saying?

  “My participation, helping out? That’s part of the plan,” she said coolly.

  “Not exactly.”

  “Yes, exactly.”

  He just glared at her, but only for a moment before moving on as if she hadn’t spoken. “Now, as I started to say, we’re here from Seattle, which is where we ostensibly live. Right now we’re here visiting my old buddy Kathlene on our way to tour Yellowstone once we’ve done some sightseeing and real camping around here. We love this area, though, and will explore it for fun—or that’s what it’ll look like. But we’ll do some nosing around to find out more about it. That will include where you indicate your anarchists are living.”

  “Fine,” she said. “I unfortunately don’t have vacation time I can take right now but I’ll visit you a lot here at the cabin, camp out with you on nights when I don’t have to report for duty early the next day. And—”

  “No, not necessary. We’ll hang out in town with you some of the time, get together for lunch or dinner in public, that kind of thing. We’re the ones here undercover, and we’ll handle all the covert investigation stuff. No need for you to get involved.”

  Kathlene felt herself rise to a half stand. Her shoulders were tense. Her whole body was stiff, in fact.

  Was this man telling her, as her boss, the sheriff, did, that women had no place in down and dirty law-enforcement matters—maybe just pushing paper or bringing coffee?

  If that was what he wasn’t saying—but meant—Jock Larabey was going to learn that exactly the opposite was true.

  Especially with her.

  Copyright © 2014 by Linda O. Johnston

  ISBN: 978-1-472-05086-1

  DARK WOLF RETURNING

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