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“You’re right. Oh, and I’ve been thinkingabout our living situation. I’ll move in with you,” Kayla said.
“Are you sure? I thought I could stay with you in your guest room on the first floor on the other side of the house. It’s practically soundproofed from the second-floor bedrooms, Nicole said. When she and Blake stayed there, it was perfect for them while they were building their home. Then you won’t have to travel from town out to the ski lodge every day.”
“What if we split our time at each of the places? I could come to your place, and we can go out to dinner or grill at your place. Other times we can go to Roxie’s and my place, and we can have dinner at the lodge, or I can fix something for us to eat. In the meantime, we’ll have our dream house built.”
“That sounds good to me. If you decide you want to stay at one of the places and don’t want to go back and forth all the time, I’ll be happy to do whatever you want.”
She leaned over, smiled, and kissed him. “I knew you were the one for me. Do you want to swim in the lake now?”
“Yeah, I sure do. And we can run as wolves in the other direction from where we went for our hike today.”
“Absolutely. Unless—”
He raised his brows.
“You want to learn more about what happened. And we can go together to see if we can find anyscent trail the killer might have left behind. Even bullet casings.”
Nate laughed. “No. I mean, yeah, if Peter needs my help investigating this, but not while we’re here on vacation.”
“Okay, just making sure because I’d be fine with it. I just want to call Roxie in case she learned anything.”
Smiling, Nate shook his head. “You’re as bad as me.”
“I know. That’s why we’re right for each other.” Kayla called Roxie and put the call on speakerphone.
Before she could say anything, her sister said, “You are on vacation with Nate. You’renotsupposed to be investigating murders.”
Nate smiled since Kayla hadn’t spoken a word yet, though Roxie knew her too well.
“Yeah, so we stumbled on a dead body. It wasn’t part of our planned fun excursion, believe me.”
Roxie laughed. “The news has spread through the pack like wildfire. Of course, mostly everyone was warned we might have a murderer on the loose in Silver Town, though Peter believes whoever killed the man probably didn’t stick around. Even so, Peter’s deputized a bunch of men and a few women to look for trespassers on pack lands because of all the ones you’ve encountered during your stay at the cabin.”
“That’s good news,” Kayla said. “The key card, Roxie? Who did it belong to?”
“I’m not finished.”
Kayla looked at Nate and rolled her eyes. He smiled and rubbed Kayla’s back.
“Did you or did you not mate Nate?” Roxie continued.
Kayla laughed. “What do you think?”
“Yes! You did it. Ohmigod, Kayla’s mated,” Roxie said to someone.
“Are you surprised?” Landon asked in the background. “We all knew they would. And congratulations to both of you.”
“I’m surprised. And yes, we’re thrilled for you.”
Blake said, “Congratulations! Now, Roxie, you’re the only holdout.”
Roxie just laughed. “Okay, about the key card. Remember the guy who left his keys in the room safe?”
“Are you kidding?” Kayla asked, sounding like she couldn’t believe it.
“The armed robber? That would explain maybe why he was wearing a black ski mask when he died.” Still, Nate was surprised that it was him too.
“Yeah, Peter said they’re running his… Hold on.” Roxie said to someone else, “What’s Peter got to say?”
