Chapter 20 A second cabin door slammed opened, but it didn’t disgorge the female I’d been hoping for. Instead, Butch emerged, took one look at the scene, then shifted as he fell forward onto four rangy lupine paws. The singlemindedness of Butch’s advance backed up my gut reaction that this fight wasn’t a fun tussle. It was deadly serious. The eruption of smoldering resentments from alpha males forced to spend too long in close proximity. No way would it end easily or well. The thought alone pulled fur out of my human skin. I needed to protect Tank.... No, I needed to protect Harper. Swallowing down my wolf with every ounce of willpower I could muster, I peered out into the night with simple human eyes. Tank and Ryder were too fast and it was too dark to tell who was winning. But I sme