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“You all right, Little Star?” Mack puts his arm around me and hugs me close to his side.

Tears bite at my eyes but I swallow them down and turn to look at my gorgeous shifter. “I hate leaving them. But we need to get you fixed.”

From somewhere beneath my skin, Kole’s voice finds me. Don’t get your hopes up, Little Star. We don’t know what awaits us.

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MACK

“This plane is the fanciest fucking thing I’ve ever seen,” Tanner says as he takes the steps two at a time. “I won’t ask why you never offered to send it to rescue Kole when he was in England trying to get home.”

I narrow my eyes and ascend the steps slowly.

Tanner stands in the middle of the cabin and whistles loudly. “Kinda wish Sam could be here for this,” he mutters, then shoots Nova an apologetic look. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to…”

She shakes her head at him. “It’s fine. You’re right. He’d love it.”

“We’ll take him flying another time,” I promise them, suddenly picturing being alone up here with Sam and Nova. Flying them myself.

I take a seat near one of the windows and watch the others excitedly acclimating themselves with the jet. Snow climbs into the seat next to me and gives me a withering stare.

When I picture the future… what does it look like for me and Snow?

I’ve never really allowed myself to think about whether I want to be reunited with him properly. Do I want us to be one again or do I like this version of us? The version where we exist side-by-side instead of inside.

Snow meets my eyes.

He’s wondering the same thing.

Even though we’re separate, his thoughts and feelings are known to me as if they were my own.

There is no distinction between the two of us.

There is just us.

So, perhaps it doesn’t matter whether we’re together or apart. As long as we continue to be.

From the cockpit, a hostess emerges carrying a tray of drinks. She flashes a bright white smile at Tanner, but quickly realizes there’s no point flirting because he is fixated on Nova.

A little despondently, she sashays past with a tray of drinks. We all accept one, and then she tells us to buckle up and that the plane will be leaving soon.

Beside me, Snow looks equally ridiculous and miserable. He’s the size of a small labrador but white and fluffy and very clearly bear-like. Of course, no one will assume he’s a miniature polar bear. But if they looked close enough, they’d see that’s exactly what he is.

Climbing down from the chair he’d been sitting in, he ambles over to the other side of the plane and flops down on the floor. Groaning, almost rolling his eyes, he turns away from us and looks like he’s going to attempt to sleep.

We’ve been in the air less than an hour when Kole and Tanner start snoring, and the air hostess slinks off into the cockpit

Nova is attempting to sleep on the seats behind them, but I can sense her restlessly moving, adjusting position, trying to talk herself into being comfortable.

I get up and take the seat opposite her, then gesture for her to come sit in my lap. She does so without question, hooking her arms around my neck and kissing me gently. “How are you doing, Daddy?” she asks in a voice that sends shockwaves of pleasure through my aching body.

“I thought we should use the time to work on your…” I swallow hard because she’s stroking the hair that protrudes from the top of my white t-shirt. “Control.”

Taking back her hand, Nova nods at me. “All right,” she says.

I shuffle a little, wishing I hadn’t asked her to sit like this because her ass against my crotch is making my dick pay too much attention. “Okay.” I try to find my best teaching voice. “Tell me what it feels like when your powers surge.”

“You mean when I come?” She’s toying with me. Deliberately, she moves her hips so her ass grinds down on my stiffening cock.