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Harley looked at Jesse "She’sfriendly"

"She is," he agreed

"What’s her story?"

"Her entire pack died when she was just a baby They made a suicide pact, but we’re not sure why At least herherself It would have been better if she’d made it clear that Cassidy was a shifter Then she wouldn’t have been adopted by a huave her up, afraid of her visions"

Harley’s heart hurt for the kid "That’s pretty sad"

"Yeah" He slowly ainst the counter, watching her resu when I walked in What were you thinking about?"

"I was just thinking I need to call Tess at some point I haven’t spoken to her in a while She worries"

"Does she know about the hate mail?"

"No Tess would have freaked I didn’t want to scare her"

And Harley hadn’t been taking the whole thing seriously enough Jesse cupped one globe of her ass "You need to start taking better care of this; it’s htly tapped her ass to punctuate his point, and her eyes flared

"You have no ‘caution’ lights in your head at all, do you?"

He s new

"You knohat your problem is, Dalton?" She slammed the dishwasher door so hard the plates rattled "You’re not equipped to deal with doht, actually As fate had paired Jesse with a sub in a relationship with someone like Harley wouldn’t coo on and on about how I’ blah How can you possibly be so certain that you want irl who’s weirdly freaked out by the sight of wax statues and is absolutely convinced that The Matrix could be real?" he quipped

"It could be; the signs are there" She narrowed her eyes "How did you know about my aversion to wax statues?"