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“I’m going to hire a secretary,” Micah said.
Dean laughed and then returned his attention back to Lucy.
“What if you can’t convince her to go back with you and go through the mating ceremony with you?”
“Then, I won’t go through the mating ceremony until I can find the right person, if I ever do. I will also make sure to protect Lucy. I won’t let the elders exile her,” Micah said.
“I’m glad for that.”
“What are you going to do if she doesn’t change her mind about you?”
Dean shrugged and said, “I guess the same thing as you. I will simply go back home, assume my duties, and wait to see if there is anyone else who comes along that I could stand waking up to every morning for the rest of my life.”
“Eh, don’t be so picky. She can always sleep in a different room,” Micah joked.
“You’re one to talk,” Dean replied. “But really, like you, I am looking for a connection. Someone that I can relax with and enjoy life with.”
“Lucy certainly fits that bill,” Micah said.
Dean sat back in his chair and said, “My father called. He wanted to know what I was doing in Ivy Springs.”
“You never told him?” Micah asked.
“Nope. He was on a need to know basis. To be honest, I’m not sure how he figured out that I was here.”
“I didn’t tell my father either, but he figured it out pretty quickly.”
“My father already has a lineup of women who he thinks would make a suitable mate,” Dean said, rolling his eyes.
“Heaven forbid,” Micah said. “The third rule I’m going to make, after protecting Lucy and abolishing meetings, is that alphas no longer have to be mated.”
“I think that I’m going to copy you,” Dean said.
After lunch, Micah called his best friend, Isaac, who was also going to be his second in command.
“How are things up there?”
“Crazy,” Isaac said. “There are already several people who are taking bets on whether you are able to convince Lucy to come back with you and go through the mating ceremony with you.”
“That’s a little embarrassing,” Micah said.
“You know that people will do anything up here for entertainment. Plus, you are royalty. Everyone wants to know who the king will take for a bride. I’m pretty sure that there are women fighting over you already.”
“The more you talk the more I think that I’m going to stay here in Ivy Springs,” Micah said. “I’ll just get a job at the café with Lucy.”
“I can picture you in an apron, handing out pastries and coffee,” Isaac said.
“I’ll even wear sensible shoes so my feet don’t hurt,” Micah said. “But seriously, as beautiful as this city is, I couldn’t stay here.”
Micah told Isaac about the war that was going on between the Faisons and the shifters, and how there were hunters on the mountain who set up cameras and traps just to hunt down shifters and kill them for no reason other than they were shifters.
“It sounds like a vile place.”
“It really is just one family. I don’t think anyone else in town gives a rat’s ass about who is a shifter or not.”
“Stay safe up there, Brother, and come home sooner rather than later,” Isaac said.
Micah decided to stop by the café and ask Lucy to go to dinner. She hesitated for a minute before she answered, and Micah was afraid that she was going to say no. He really couldn’t blame her. She was probably sick of him and Dean.
