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breath for his next move.
    “What are you going to say to her? Hi, I’m the husband you can’t remember. But I’m more than a man, I’m a werelion. Oh, and I believe that someone in my pack kidnapped you, possibly so they could kill you. You can’t. You’ll terrify her. If she even believes you. You need to treat her gently. Give her a chance to remember some of this herself. You push her too much, too fast, and you’ll lose her.”
    Shit. Galen knew Rick was right as galling as it was to admit it.
    To be so close and not be able to hold her, touch her, to reassure her with his love and protection was just another kind of torture. But her needs and wants came first, they always had. They always would. It wouldn’t be fair of him to load everything on her at once.
    “Fine,” Galen growled reluctantly. “I will go slowly, but I won’t wait forever, and if she’s threatened in any way I may have to tell her so I can properly protect her.”
    Andrews nodded, but Galen hadn’t been after his agreement.
    “Do you know who might have done this?” Rick asked.
    Someone had betrayed him. No way could anyone outside the pack have gotten onto their territory and taken her. Eden was everything to Galen and he surrounded her in the best protection. She should never have known a moment’s danger in her life. And yet she’d been kidnapped, no doubt terrorized, and then injured, waking up in hospital alone.
    Galen frowned. “Do you think I haven’t thought about it? I’ve gone over everyone in my pack. She has no enemies that I know of. Eden is quiet and reserved but she’s sweet to everyone she meets. It could have been anyone. I was with my enforcers at the time I felt the mate bond disappear, but I don’t think we can rule them out. They could have had help.”
    When she’d disappeared their mate bond had gone silent, something which only happened if the bond had been damaged somehow. Through the mate bond he should have been able to sense her emotions, thoughts, feelings. Galen now knew that the mate bond had been strained because of her head injury. He could only hope it would return with her memories.
    It killed him that he had no idea who he had to protect her from. Andrews was right, taking her home was not the right move to make. But then was staying here much safer? They could come looking for her.
    He’d simply have to be ready for them. Because trying to move her right now could do more damage than good. He could hardly gather her up and spirit her away.
    “You live over six hundred miles away,” Rick said. “Didn’t you notice that someone was missing?”
    “Lots of people were missing. One of my enforcers had taken his mate and cub to visit his parents out of state. Six other of the pack were in New York. Two of my cousins had been gone a week. I have a large pack, nearly eighty of them weren’t on pack grounds at the time. I’ve been trying to gain alibis for them all without raising their suspicions.”
    “Shit,” Rick said, running his hand over his dark hair.
    “How did you know she was mine?” Galen had never been as relieved as when he’d received the phone call from Rick telling him that Eden was alive and safe.
     He hadn’t stopped searching for her since she’d disappeared. Thank God that Andrews was a wereleopard as well as the sheriff or Galen hated to think what might have happened to her. Andrews had taken care of her and Galen knew he owed him a lot.
    Andrews sighed, looking around him. “Sure you don’t want to go talk about this up at the house? I’ll make us some coffee.”
    Galen shook his head. “No, I have no patience for social niceties right now.” He looked at the small porch around the cottage. “But let’s sit.”
    Rick sighed and sat on a cane chair that had seen better days as Galen did the same.
    “Well, when I got the call out to the accident, it was obvious something odd was going on. It actually happened over near Harmony. It was 2 a.m., a stormy