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Blayne put his hands on his knees, sucking breath. “They got away. They had a truck waiting in the woods. I ran as fast as I could, but I couldn’t catch them. They took some shots at us while they went.” “Assholes nicked me,” Steff said, fingering a bloody scratch on his shoulder. “I’ll live.”…

There was one other thing I wanted to do before I went back home, though. So, I hailed a cab and gave the driver the name of the place I wanted to go. As we drove, a light drizzle began to come down outside. The lights of the city ticked by, and I allowed myself…

Without answering, Tate leaned out and called across the hall, “Mariah! I… uh… your mom wants to take a walk in the woods. Can you watch the baby?” “Yeah, sure. I guess. Weird, but whatever,” Mariah called from her room. The woods? Oh shit. My skin was burning and itching too much for me to…

“You need to stop talking,” I whispered. She looked me in the eyes. “I accept you as my mate.” Those words almost snapped me out of reality. I went into a fugue state and didn’t even remember taking her hand and leading her back to my house. There was a vague memory of Steff and…

Steff still looked uncomfortable. “I think she’s right.” “Me, too,” Blayne added. Tate looked beyond angry at all three of us. “What are you talking about? Harley, what if I claim you and something bad happens to the baby? How can you… shit, how can I live with myself if that happened?” “I have the…

Tate stepped in front of all three of us and called out, “Do you have a death wish? Is that why you’re here? Because if so, by God, I’ll grant it.” The man rocked back on his heels and laughed. “Looks like you’re the one with the death wish. But no, we didn’t come here…

‘Oh, Jesus,” I said, breathing out in relief. “Uh, Doc got the silver bullets out. Blayne and Steff held his arms, I held his legs. It was… it was bad.” “I heard,” I murmured. “He gave him a drug that will stop the silver from spreading through his body, but he’ll be in pretty excruciating…

Before I could go deeper into those thoughts, a bang sounded at the door. Freezing with the coffee pot in my hand, I stared at the door, scared of who might be out there. Another three loud bangs rang out. It wasn’t the gentle tap-tap-tap of a friendly neighbor dropping off a Bundt cake. This…

He pointed his chin at my stomach. “You need to stop playing these games and come home. You’re carrying the Ortiz family heir in your belly there. This Podunk shithole town is not the place for an Ortiz boy to grow up.” I knew what I was going to say before I opened my mouth,…

My dragon didn’t help things. I wasn’t quite feral yet, but things were slowly going that way. Over and over, like a chant, it repeated: mate, mate, mate, mate. Anytime I wasn’t paying close attention, the dragon tried to take things into its own hands. Just the night before, while cuddling up against Harley, I…