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Confident, self-assured and in her eleh her like flah her soul

She needed him

It wasn’t a sexual hunger It wasn’t theheat and it wasn’t the need to quench the fla heat It was his mate’s need for a partner For her partner

He’d proive her the space she needed to conduct her iven her one week to acco over her plans with a fine-tooth co her feel that he had no faith in her abilities

What had ever made

hi spirit she possessed—would ever accept suchhow to do what she was so da?

He’d failed her again

He dropped his head for ain hard, desperate breaths as the ani at his senses as he fought the need to protect her The need to stand before her, to snarl in warning at the bastards she believed were a threat

There was only one threat really facing her

Dog, Mutt, Mongrel and Loki weren’t mercenary Coyotes only recently separated from the Council, as Malcolm believed They weren’t the bloodthirsty, rabid ani to help him turn his commander over to the Genetics Council

They were Jonas’s double agents His eyes and ears into the Council so to speak They were still soldiers, or so the Council believed, just in a different capacity now than they had been before

Still, even knowing the danger was minimized, he had to forcibly hold hie that rose inside him

Her sense of confusion and disillusionh his brain and straight into his soul

“You won’t back her,” Thor growled, and for a moment, just for the briefest second, it was almost an animal’s rasp “You refuse to allow her to be who she is, what she is She’s a fucking warrior, Lawe You don’t bury that, you encourage it You train it, sharpen it, you fucking hone it until she fits your hand like the finest steel and slices twice as deep She’s your fuckingweapon God ever created and gifted to a man She stands by your side, Lawe You stand by her side, or you lose the very things you love about her”

His head flipped around as he glared at thepain “Shut the fuck up!”