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It was hard to believe that they were in charge together.

Why had Tyne decided on that? Xantos seemed happy enough, but she just wanted to get away.

Moe had asked her first, and she hadn't known who would be partnered with her when she'd said yes.

It would look weird if she'd changed her mind now, and she had hoped for a career working in security.

The worst thing would be if they realized why she didn't want to do this.

They might even think she had a thing for him and couldn't be close without being nervous.

That simply wasn't true, but she wouldn't want anyone to believe that.

Sally could have liked him had he not been so arrogant and full of himself.

Perhaps that overconfident behavior worked for him, as he had just arrived in Alaska and was already in charge of a new office.

Not that she thought that was a reward. The reason it paid so much was because it was such a hard job, especially since it was a new office.

Startups often faced problems and were frequently targeted by malicious individuals.

These people hated paranormals, even though she would not be surprised if most of them did not have a pinch of the paranormal in them somewhere due to the centuries of breeding back and forth that had occurred.

While she couldn’t shift herself, she had some wolf in her.

How much? She wasn't sure. Her mother was human, but her great grandpa had been a wolf.

He had no luck having children with anyone but humans, or at least those with at least part human ancestry.

He'd finally been able to have a son with a half-breed, but he'd been a little bit crazy.

The crazy had continued down that bloodline until now.

That pack was stuck with an alpha so nuts that she felt sorry for them.

She was glad that her great-grandmother had moved away and left behind all that craziness.

Her family might be poor, but they had their sanity and their self-respect.

They also had a knowledge of the paranormal world that they never shared with anyone outside the family.

Sally was the first one, since her great-grandmother, who couldn't shift.

Her mother had told her if she married a shifter, she would probably be able to shift.

That was unlikely to happen since everything she had been told made her feel like it was too scary to even attempt sex with a shifter or any other paranormal, for that matter.

She didn't hold anything against them. She simply didn't want to be like them.

Sally suspected that Xantos was a wolf. There was just something about him that made her feel that way.

Wolves were usually tall and well-built.

They had an air about them, and it was hard to determine their age.

Some were confident, but others were like him, which was arrogant.

He strutted around like the cock of the walk and, like any female, would just fall helplessly in love with him.

Not this female and not under these circumstances.

It was true that she was drawn to him for some reason that she didn't understand, but she didn't have to act on it, and she wasn't going to.