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The doorbell rang

Pasting on a sht and excited faces turned her faux s could heal the open wound that was the jagged beat of her animal heart

NATE SAW TAMSYN AGAIN THAT DAY, BUT IT WAS HOURS later and with several others as they sat around her kitchen table eating dinner She’d chosen not to sit next to him, but he could understand why The awareness between the, until he could scent nothing but the sensual pro he had ever wanted--that smile, that acerbic wit she seemed to show him alone, and lord help hiht to her

His beast wanted to roar its claiht the i as he’d initially planned He’d give her another six months of freedoo roaerous, but Ta leopards She’d be fine

The cat in him didn’t like the idea, kne badly it would hurt to be parted from her, but it had to be done He never wanted her to turn to him--as hisher life That would destroy hi her spirit was his personal night at Taht?" Juanita passed hiht

Rolling her eyes, she called out to Taht?"

Taed my mind"

"You look fine to an, she appeared soft and touchable Strokable Shit His , he’d start thinking about unbuttoning that cardigan and kissing his way--

"Great," Juanita hissed, breaking into the taut eroticism of his newest daydrea with that?" He took the peas she almost shoved into his chest "She looks--" He cut himself off before he said what he wanted to say, which was "pretty enough to bite into"

Juanita shot hi her attention to the pack her, Nate went back to the pleasurable task of watching Tamsyn The beast bucked to taste her Six months , he told it Six more ain

BUT A BARE WEEK LATER, HIS HUNGER FOR HER HAD GOTTEN so bad that he had Cian reassign hi to flaunt herself at hiive hi pressure to mate, to touch and taste and claim Without the control provided by the vivid scars of iven in a hundred ti to her each , just to see her save him one, but there was no s situation? Any decisions?"

"We’re planning to make a move in a few days" He’d already told her what they intended to do--she was his ral part of the steel backbone of the pack "You want to co? Be a nice run" He wanted to feel her beside hi and hotly fe, Nate"

The quick change in subject rattled his under her eyes, the lack of light in her face "We’ll get past it"

"Not living so close" She shook her head "One of us has to leave"

He’d thought about setting her free to roam, but now that it had coo "Don’t make any impulsive decisions It’ll die down"

"No, it won’t Don’t lie tothe final stages of theworse, especially if our beasts continuously sense each other’s presence I was thinking I should go to--"

"Just wait" He fisted his hands to keep fro her "I’ll talk to so we can do to lessen the io out into the world?" Her voice was soft, her skin flushed with need "Isn’t that why you keep pushing le word held his heart

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STAY, HE’D SAID, BUT TAMSYN KNEW HE DIDN’T MEAN IT the way she needed hied hiht It didn’t make him happy just to see her Not like itin the sae died tomorrow, there would still be no other man for her He was her one and only But she wasn’t his Her throat feeling as if she’d gotten a rock stuck in it, she left the parking garage in the city and crossed the street