CLAIMED BY THE WRONG ALPHA

lot, arms crossed, staring at the

ned on full tilt as he muttered something to a giggling brunette. Laugh

time," Cassidy mur

her jaw. "I

me wonderful romantic gesture. Actually, it was only a means of scouting his

all is that e

no getting away from it. She was from the Callahan family, and women from that family marri

ded of the Carter brothers, was her older sister Lillian.

e getting married to him. Ryan?

wedding, his wife passed away in an unexplained acc

twenty-one and had to wal

mply leave. He doesn't

nd and walked her toward her car. "How about ou

back toward Ryan. He had

Let us

Resolved to drive any ideas of Ryan and the planned marriage

o!" Cassidy yelled

let herself swin

lighter, the

ight grip clamped

her heart slamming against he

r stood in

e breath fr

t of the storm that had suddenly swept in,

nk as usual, his icy b

e," he stated with a

ree and pointed sharpl

." One of them is not

you be interested in where I travel? No

deal with you. We bo

. "That is not

aching her so closely she could feel heat

"I can take c

d her stare for a long, stifling minu

into the throng

eart hammered a

her arm. "Okay, what

to say, Eva

rules were anymore, for t

living room ba

're spiraling." "Just let me know what's happe

out. "He speaks to Lillian seldom at all. Why

ieves you ar

nterest in h

. Lillian, let us not even begin on her; your dad never treated you like a true daug

would come upon me. You

. Perhaps it is tim

er hands and collapsed o

id in a whisper.

hand. "Then we find

ope for the first tim