“Huh?”She repeated herself. Slowly. “Do you understand the dress code for this party to which I am inviting you?”Not helping. It appeared that...I had not slept as well as I had thought. Ashley comprehended that I was not functioning at 100 %, and took command. She sat me on the commode seat, and, lifting my feet one at a time, extracted my feet from the mess that was my clothing, and then, standing me up, propelled me into the shower.Once she joined me, well, between the therapeutic effects of. “Where are we heading, KK.”“A sign on the interstate pointed to a Springdale Suites down here. I thought we’d check it out. What’s the story on Barbara? And did I hear you asking her to get us some guns?”“I did. Especially when she confirmed something is going on and we’re being shadowed. She and Marc have people tailing the watchers. Since she’s so concerned about us I feel we better get some personal protection. Besides, it’s not like we don’t have the money.”Kathleen pulls into the entrance. " No, I can't be," I said, my voice still a croak, "I'm in bed with my sister!"She giggled and laid back down again as another thought struck me, lifting the covers, I looked, and my suspicions were confirmed!"I'm naked!" Yes." We're both naked Jenny!" Yes." We've got no clothes on!" Yep, that's what being naked means all right."Then the ceiling started to spin, and suddenly I was on my back again!She surfaced again from under the covers and looked at me."I knew you'd do that," she said simply,. She rose and fell with his steady breaths and he was absentmindedly curling strands of her hair around his finger. ‘Seriously, though,’ she said, rising on her elbow to look at him. ‘Why have you chosen to live with humans for so long?’ He sighed and rubbed a hand over his face. ‘I grew up in a pack, not far from here. When I was twenty our alpha died, suddenly. There were several candidates for the new alpha and I became involved in…power struggles.’ His dark eyes were looking up at the.