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A scent her body had refused to relinquish since the night he had aided in her rescue from a Syrian jail cell sixteen months before

He had refused to take the final step that would initiate e it was currently at Any further and they would be burning for each other At the e of what he was denying himself

Enough of an irritation that he had been running in the opposite direction fro

The glands beneath his tongue were only slightly swollen; the hor into his system The hard-on that the need caused caularity, but the need for her wasn’t yet a vicious bite in his balls

He was simply uncomfortable

It wasn’t yet a biological imperative, but it would take very little to create an overwheled to keep in place

Allowing his hunger to have its as a step he had yet to take

To kiss her or to touch her in any ould send thehe refused to do

To lose a lover to the viciousness of the forces atte To lose a mate, the one woed wounds a Breed carried inside hi else entirely

For a second, the ile beneath the scalpel that cut her open, flashed across his mind He heard her screams, her pleas, thedeath

The chances of such a thing happening to a Breed and his her than any Breed wanted to face, especially those who had mated

Mates were protected, kept behind the walls of Sanctuary, the secured Wolf Breed co Haven, aptly code-nae to protect the , with his very life They were too important They were vital to the survival of the Breed they were mated with and to the future survival of Breeds as a whole No chance could be taken that they would be harmed

There were those with ht beside theh those Breed males were forced to allow their women that freedom for the sake of their fee allowing

“You’ll lose her,” Jonas spoke softly into the silence, as though he were aware of the thoughts tor him “Just as Dawn nearly lost Seth when she separated herself fronore it, Lawe, and the mark of your scent will dissipate and leave you vulnerable to losing her”

Lawe stared back at hih his control