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"Damn That must have been hard on you"

"My stepfather is a kind man, and I love him MyI’d been sired by a Fae, and he didn’t He loved me for her sake But she accepted his mate-claim out of expediency, not love"

Sean touched the curls at the base of her neck "That doesn’t mean you need to accept out of expediency, lass"

"I know But itwithout the rih the mate bond can tear us up in the end?" Sean slid his hands around her waist, under her coat "In there, thinking of you being shot, falling at h you, like I had to with Kenny" He sed "I don’t ever want to have to do that, love Never, ever"

So that was the difference between Sean and Lia, Sean saw as keeping loved ones safe Because Sean was the one who’d have to look at those loved ones last

The thought made Andrea want to hold hi the feel of the firers behind his neck Such strength and such coed your ht to walk out of the ht of hi away from her made her heart suddenly ache

"I should To saveis part of life, isn’t it? So is happiness"

Sean caressed the small of her back "When did you become the wise one?"

"The day I told my whole Shiftertoouldn’t mate with that sorry excuse for a Lupine, no matter how much he and his friends terrorized"I’d have given a lot to see that I bet some wolf jaws dropped"

"They didn’t exactly applaud me"

"And you knew they wouldn’t But you did it anyway That’s irl" He sounded proud, which war I’ve ever done" Well, that andSean for the first time, but the fear had been markedly different

Sean’sbrave doesn’t h your body Liam’s deter there for a while Not until we get this thing solved"

Andrea stepped back "Wait a o to work? Screw that"