Three years ago, Lyle made a mistake that cost him his freedom, and almost his life. Now, sick to death of watching his father love the man that Lyle wanted, Lyle accepts an offer to leave Wolf, WY, behind and see what life in Washington, DC,. can do for him instead.<br><br>When Lyle comes across a seductive, attractive stranger with a fascinating yet terrifying view of humanity, he's more than intrigued. It doesn't take Lyle long to realize that Arius isn't just playing games, though, and when Lyle runs across a secret in Arius' lair he has no choice but to flee, even knowing his actions will enrage Arius.<br><br>On the run, with only a psychic's second sight and his own instinct to help him, Lyle has nowhere to go but home. The only question is, will they have him when he shows up.

Wolf, en Garde

Pennsylvania became Ohio at a rate which Lyle considered equivalent to the speed of snail. The tunnel underneath one of the mountains had been shut down to their side of the highway for almost an hour and Lyle had sweated out that delay like a man on death row. There’d been no way to go around the line of traffic, and while a wise person might have kept a closer eye on the local radio station, neither of them had thought to do so. Lyle didn’t figure that the maintenance crew, or whateverit was delaying them, would leave all those vehicles on the road for too long, but the nagging voice in the back of his mind kept whispering that they were going to wait there forever—until sunset—and then there’d be all kinds of trouble. That, coupled with the ridiculous amount of traffic they’d encountered in DC, meant that at what should have been the seven-hour point of their journey was in actuality nine hours.


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