~‘YOU NEED A NAME.” ARIELLE SAID LETTING IT LICK HER PALM.
                 ~‘HOW ABCUT SNOWY??t’ ThK WOLF’S EYES GREW WIDE.
                 r’NO.HCW ABOU~? THUNDER OR LIGHTENING?” THE WOLF LOOKED ALARMED.
                 t’NO.HOW ABOUT ‘LANCER’S WHITE WOLF OF FAULKNER COUNTRY.~” THE WOLF
                 !BARKED AND AIRI APPLIED MORE MESU ON HIS SORES AND THEN GOT SOME
                 ~g ATER FOR HIM
         
         
         
         HAWN SAT IN KENDRICK’~ QUARTERS AND SIPPED HOT COFFEE.AIRIELLL’S FA
                 E APPERRED IN HER MIND.SHE PUI~LE~ THE BLANKET CLOSER.SHAWN HAD
                 PENT THE NIGHT~ WITH KING AND QUEEN AURTHUR,IN AGREEMENT THAT IN TH
                 ~CRNIN~,THEY~’ SEARCH FOR ARIELLE~KENDRICK TAPPED LIGHTLY ON THE
                 OCR.
         
                        COME IN?”
                 ~‘COME HERE.” HE SAID PATTING HIS LAP.
                 ~‘I’M NOT A BABY KEN.” SHAWN SAID STANDING UP.SHE STROLLED ACROSS TH
                 ~OCM AND SAT ON HIS LAP.SHE LEANED HER HAD ON HIS CHEST.
                 ~‘I LOVE YOU.” KENDRICK WHISPERED.
                 t’ME TOO.”     DAYS LATER...........~.
                                   WEEKS LATER.
                 ~RIELLE,WOLF,ANDMONI SET OUT FC~T~HE DAY’.THE TERRITORY WAS PURE
                 ~NAR TERRIAN.WHITE WOLF WAS NOW ~tt BETTER AND ENJOYING HIS EXERCISE
                 ~IR WAS NOW CRISP AND CHILLY~tWITH THE HINT’ OF FALIJ.APIELLE SAT
                   ~NT~8~ ~ ~TI~H~H~ABI ~ A SMAlL VILLAGE.
         
                  ACK AND LAUNCHED IT WITH HER BOW. SHE KNOCKED ON A WCC DEN DOOR ‘AND
                  HANDSOME TEENAGER ANSWERED.
                 ‘HELLO MIGHT I S-’~
                 ‘NO. LEAVE HERE.” SUDDENLY WHITE WOLF JUMPED IN FRONT CF HI~ MISTPE
                 S.HE GROWLED AT THE MAN’ WHO DARES TURNED HER DOWN.
                 ‘NICE DOG.”
                 ‘HE’S A WOLF.”
                 ‘THAT’S MUCH BETTER.” HE LC~KED AROUND NERVOUSLY.
                 ‘ALL T?IGHT,00ME IN’.” SHE STEPPED INSIDE AS DID WHITE WOLF.MONI
                   IN~IED AND ART PA~~TED HIM.THE COTTAGE WAS SMALL BUT LIKE A HOMH.
                 ~ HE MAN’ BROUGHT SOME TEA AND SOI.TP AND A LITTLE BREAD.
                 ‘SORRY TIS ALL I HAVE.”
                 k ‘IT’S PERFECT.” THE MAN.’ GAVE MONT SOME OATS AND C~RROTTS AND WHITE
         ~tF GOT SOME BROTH.
         
                 I ‘WHO ARE YOU FAIR MA~EN2” HE ASKED.ARIEI4LE SHRUGGED.
                 ‘IF I TOLD YOU YOU’D FREER.”
                 ~‘I PROMISE I WON’T.”
                 t’ALL RIGHT IF YOU PRONISE.I’M PRINCESS ARIELLE VICTOflI~ LANCER.”
                 ~HE MAN’S JAW DROPPED AND RE SHOCK HIS HEAD.
                 ?“IMPOSSIABLEYOU’VE BEEN MISSING FOR EIGHT WE EKS AND LANCER
                 ~CUNTRY IS OVER 189 MILES.” ARIELLE SHRUGGED.
                 ~‘YOU M~N~ ~ BEEN GOING THE WRONG~ WAY?” SHE EXCLAIMED.
                 PYES.MY              E FORGIVE ME BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?”