title: The Beast in Him (Pride, Book 2)
author:  Shelly Laurenston 
description: Originally from Long Island,<i>New York Times</i>bestselling author<b>Shelly Laurenston</b>has resigned herself to West Coast living, which involves healthy food, mostly sunny days, and lots of guys not wearing shirts when they really should. Shelly is also the New York Times bestselling author G.A. Aiken, creator of the Dragon Kin series. For more info about Shelly's books go to www.shellylaurenston.com. Or to check out G.A.'s dangerously and arrogantly sexy dragons go to www.gaaiken.com.
zlib_text: THE BEAST IN HIM
  
  SHELLY LAURENSTON
  
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  PROLOGUE
  
  True, he was drunk. Very drunk. His daddy’s idea of a proper send-off for his
  youngest boy before the United States government owned his ass for the next
  few years. But just because he shouldn’t have had those last four tequilas,
  didn’t mean he didn’t know they were tracking her.
  
  They were always tracking her. Always screwing with her. From what he could
  tell, she didn’t even stay at the house anymore. Her foster parents didn’t
  care as long as the checks kept rolling in. So she mostly lived out in the
  woods like a wild child. Except she wasn’t a wild child. Just a poor kid who’d
  had the unlucky misfortune of getting on the wrong side of his baby sister.
  
  He caught their scent and immediately knew where they were heading—to the high
  school. They’d find her under the bleachers. She hid under there a lot. She
  could hide anywhere when she needed to. Unlike the brawnier She-wolves, her
  kind’s body type was small and 