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Why hadn’t he seen the clues?

Straightening froainst the wall, Lawe moved to leave the room and check on his too-independent mate

He hadn’t even taken that first step when a hard, de knock sounded on the door and the scent of Jonas’s mate reach his senses

Lawe’s gaze e flooded his systeed to the forefront of his senses as he bit back a growl and forced himself to remain in place

A Breed Enforcer moved to the door and opened it quickly Rachel Wyatt swept into the rooer and resentment as she moved to her mate, the director of the Bureau of Breed Affairs

Jonas turned to the door as the delicate figure of his mate entered the room

Jonas’s ent With her quiet fe will, she was the perfect counter for his icy, sharp-edged son There was little Jonas ed to pull over on her, yet there was also little that she wouldn’t forgive him

Long, dark brown hair was pulled atop her head in a classic twist, thin-fraaze locked on her husband’s Her expression was tight, her lips thin and the scent of her anger drifted through the rooar

“Rachel?” The question in Jonas’s tone, gently voiced and curious still had the power to surprise those who had only known the hard lash of his tongue before he found his mate

As though the ani restlessly, furiously, had suddenly found solace and a sudden, overwhel peace That peace descended over Jonas as his wife moved to him and took the hand he reached out to her

“What have the two of you done toand distressed as she stared up at her husband

“Nothing as of yet,” Jonas assured her as Lawe ignored the look of retaliation in the director’s eyes “Though I’s in mind”

Rachel gave a brief, less-than-feet the chance to do anything Whatever you said to her last night, she packed and left before dawn thisI’ve missed h she were sohts and no ability to choose her own fate Since as the decision made that a suspected mate should become a prisoner?”

She wasn’t pleased And her displeasure was centered more on hiinning to tighten through his system The pain that pulsed and burned inside her reached out to slice at each man in the room, and to remind him of his basic responsibilities to his mate

That of her happiness