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“Jonas, Callan” He shook his head “They knehat theheat would do to her, and once I saw it, I kneell It was already strong, Dash”

“They had no right to ask you to stay away froently “It’s been ten years Too long for her to have to fight the effects of the heat alone”

His head snapped up, his jaw clenching as he stared back at her suspiciously “The doctor, Ely She said the heat wasn’t in full effect without the exchange of a full kiss, or more intimate contact than e had had”

They were staring at him; Dash’s expression was dark, Elizabeth’s shocked as she looked to her husband

“Ely has known better than that for several years,” Dash told him “And I know for a fact Dawn has been in full heat for as long as I’ve known her, Seth I knew you were her er to struggle against their pasts enough to go to their mates I didn’t ask questions” He shook his dark head sharply “I should have, but I didn’t”

Seth came violently to his feet “She’s suffered like that?” he dehly “As I did? All these years?”

“Probably worse,” Elizabeth answered him then “It’s always harder on the women, whether they’re Breed or not And I can tell you fro in full heat alone But ould Callan do this?” He watched as she turned to her husband again in disbelief “He loves her like his own child, Dash, ould he not let Seth know?”

“Unless they thought it would recede in her as it had in Seth” Dash leaned back in his chair and watched Seth with narrowed eyes “How intimate was the first contact with her?”

Seth shook his head as he stalked to the doors, much like his own, that led out to the enclosed, private balcony “Not ed “I was…courting her”

“I your reputation at the time,” Dash pointed out in amusement

Seth shot hiain

“What now?” He shook his head at the thought “I’ll be honest, I don’t want her here It’s too dangerous, and I’e even within himself “My control is shot, Dash” He turned to the other man, frustrated and aware of his oeakness “I don’t know if I can hold back with her here, in the house”

Dash sighed roughly “Jonas and Callan had no right to show you the footage taken from those labs”

Seth frowned “I needed to know The heat was already getting hard to deal with I would have s worse” He wouldn’t have stayed away, and he would have only htmares worse

“What are you going to do now?” Dash asked