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“I am going to kill her,” I growled.
“You sound like Mitchell. You know, he has a temper, too,” Tim replied and laughed.
“Mitch? No way. He’s so sweet and kind.”
“To you maybe. That boy houses a monster inside him, and I don’t mean in his pants, so get your mind out of the gutter, thank you,” he said, and my cheeks burned.
Fine. I went there.
“Anyway, I plan to rib my brother relentlessly about how his woman liked me first. You know, he is such an easy target now that you have him all ass struck and everything. He is gonna be so pissed. But as for me, I am happily mated now to a wonderful Wolf from Hope Falls named Peter. He owns the barbershop?—”
“Back up. Did you sayass struck?”
“Honey, my brother has got a fixation on that beautiful booty of yours. Lunges?”
“What?”
“Do you do lunges?” he asked, and I shook my head. “Hmm. Just gifted, I guess. Lucky so and so.”
“Okay, Tim, we found the bug,” Davian interrupted us.
“Great! Now maybe my brother will stop snarling at me. Although, I don’t think that will happen until a certainbooty-fulMiss Thing—see what I did there?Booty-ful,” he asked, and I rolled my eyes.
“Yes, I see, Tim, but can you explain?—”
“Explain what? How I am a genius? Honey, I do not have that kind of time. Anyway, all you need to do is answer his phone calls before half our crews quit, please and thank you. Poor Mitch is behaving like the Beast himself. He’s acting like a bloody tyrant, Martina, and only you can bring him to his senses,” Tim said.
“Me? But why? We just went on a date. One date. I’m nothing to him,” I whispered, my heart damn near pounding me to death.
“Oh my God, are you listening to me? Is she hearing me? What kind of Wolf Shifter doesn’t recognize her own fated mate?” Tim snapped.
“My what?!”
He looked over at Erryn and Davian and I noted their red cheeks and guilty expressions. Something was going on, and those two were in on it. My Wolf growled, and I wondered at how close she felt. Sparks started at my fingertips, and Tim’s gaze dropped to them.
“You’re not just a Wolf,” he said, shocked as he sat back down.
“Tim, we got it from here,” Davian said.
He put himself between me and my, er,myMitch’sbrother. A heated discussion broke out between them, but I could not hear a word of it. Instead, my mind was racing inside of me. My Wolf, that midnight black monster howled a long, solitary note, and I fell to my knees. Her heartbreak filled me, and I gasped at the pain. She was mourning the loss of something. No, not something, someone. A missed opportunity.
Mate.
She wanted her mate. The truth slammed into me like a derailed train, and I could hardly breathe for the weight that was crushing me. Could Mitch really be my fated mate? We’d only gone out once, but I understood that kind of bond could happen instantly between souls fated to each other. This separation had been painful, but I thought it was just guilt causing me to feel that way.
But I’d been wrong. My Wolf was angry, sad, despondent. Oh God, what had I done? This was impossible.
“Martina? Martina!” Erryn was kneeling in front of me, her worried eyes on my face.
I heard Davian and Tim arguing in the background, but I felt no danger from either of them. They weren’t trying to hurt each other, Tim was protecting his brother, and Davi was protecting me.
“Stop. STOP! This is between me and Mitchell.”
“He’s my brother,” Tim said.
“And she is my sister. I won’t have her under Pack scrutiny,” Davian said.
“He won’t tell, Davi. That’s for me to do.”
