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"Grey? His parents stretched the was taken"

"Yeah" But Rand didn't sht get captured and released by the glass

"Grey came from an urban pack They're a different, harder breed, less connected to the land, stronger footholds in huer alpha Well, a stronger alpha and a team of betas that kneas bad news He was tossed out with three or four , mean Street smart If they were the weaker h I applaud his decision to kick Grey's ass out Just wish he'd killed hi code on that There aren't enough of us to be killing one another over anything less than the gravest offenses At that tiuess Grey hadn't crossed that line"

"Too bad you can't kill soht?"

Rand's gaze shifted to Cai He wasn't surprised the vaether It wasn't a hard story to follow, or even all that unique of one Didn't make the pain any less

"Grey challenged Sylvan When he beat him, he didn't accept Sylvan's capitulation" Rand shook his head "We didn't see it co all wolves to respect our pack rules, no matter where they came from He killed Sylvan, and then ordered his betas to take out Sylvan's pups Four six-year-old kids"

Rand's jaw hardened "In the wild, wolves, lions, certain pack animals like that, will kill the pups of the dominant female to put her back into heat, after they run off or take out the ht that hat he was doing, but nobody was going to stand for that

"We all fought theuard, helped Sheba and her pups get away Because of the age of the kids, she needed at least a couple of packprotection That ended up being ot lucky None of the pups were har us get free We heard later the rest of them scattered"

He looked into the darkness of the forest He could shift and run Just run and leave all this behind He didn't knohat the alcohol would do in his wolf's system, but he didn't really care

"Hey" He turned his head How had the va? Cai slid Rand's hair over his shoulder, his strong hand stroking tenseon Rand's pulse to suck and nip Rand's hand on the e all the way back Too late, he realized it would be interpreted as an act of subht his hand, interlacing their fingers "Tell the rest of it," the vampire murmured

"Not like this Let thisjust be this" Ra

nd closed his eyes as Cai's tongue teased hio of the bottle to lift his hand, stroke it over the vampire's short hair His touch drifted to the top point of Cai's spine, his back, over that sunburst set of scars, as Cai worked his way down his chest, his abdo his upper body on his elbows

"Your propensity for being naked when you shift is very useful And yes, fucking distracting," Cai noted, before his mouth closed over Rand's cock, and went all the way to the root It was an i fully hard The va on the base of Rand's throat, a touch to admonish him to stillness The other wrapped around his cock as Cai went after it with a singular intensity that had Rand shoving up into his hold, strangling on a gasp

No tihts of loss to co in sexual desire, an unsettling s open in his chest "StopCai"

Did the vampire think that it would help, that somehow sex could shove the other out of the way? The loss of love and family, of connection The only way someone could think that was if that soht flitted through Rand's mind, a revelation about the va him to hold onto it

So long, too long since he'd been worked over like this And Dylef, blessed Dylef, it'd been h Rand was top most of the time

Cai lifted his head and brushed lips that sainst hi over Rand so he could keep his hand on Rand's chest, playing in the gleauessed Cai liked it so much because vampires were hairless below the neck The contrast seeh his eyes slid to Rand's cock, hard and high on his belly "Tell me all of it and I'll finish what I started"

The arousal had been goaded by Cai's touch, by his looks, by the experience they'd had earlier But at those words, desire left Rand The hard fist already squeezing hi his heart into it Rand rolled away and rose, staring down at Cai