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“Of course,”he answered without hesitation.
“Do you think Flint feels the same way?”
Heath chuffed, his wolf’s breath coming out as mist in the cold morning air.“You said they were cuddling in bed together, didn’t you? That he even kissed your mate mark on her? I’d say you have your answer.”
“Right.”
We loped back toward town, and I felt Freya stirring, coming awake alongside Flint in bed. I examined my feelings. Knowing they’d spooned all night long didn’t bother me in the slightest. Flint and Heath… I trusted them with her. My wolf felt content when she was with them. Yet if any other wolf shifter so much as looked at her the wrong way, I’d skin him alive.
“You going back to the den to get some sleep?”Heath asked.“I can cover for you for a few hours until Flint can take over.”
I remembered what day it was, and all the things I needed to do to make sure Frost Fang recovered from years under Nira’s toxic rule. Heath needed rest as much as I did, and he’d already had his turn dealing with the drudgery last night.
I needed to apologize to Freya for doing all the things she’d said — biting her without asking first, giving her an unequal mating, taking away her privacy, all of it — but maybe it was still too soon. Maybe she needed some space.
Maybe she needed to know that being with me didn’t mean giving up the others.
“No. I’ll go to the throne room,”I answered heavily.“But there is something you can do for me instead.”
“Whatever you need,”Heath answered, and something in my heart warmed at my best friend’s devotion.
He’d always been there for me, and he always would be.
“Go to Flint and Freya. Tell them my mate can be with any Howling Echo wolf she wants. Maybe that will prove to Freya that I have no intention of keeping her from the rest of you.”
“You’ll feel it through the mate bond,”Heath warned.
“I know. But I need to make this right somehow. I don’t want to lose her on the next full moon.”
Chapter 32
Freya
Flint closed the bedroom door behind himself. When he stepped toward me, I turned away, too afraid to see his reaction. He could probably smell Gage’s scent all over me. I’d never felt more naked in front of him, yet he set the clothes aside and strode across the room to me.
“Gage bit you. How do you feel?”
Flint grabbed my naked hips and pulled me against him, squeezing me tight to his clothed body. Our long hair mingled together between us, and I stared up at him in shock.
He was touching the naked body of his pack alpha’s mate. That was more than enough to get him executed in any other pack.
“Flint, I’m so sorry,” I whispered, tears filling my eyes.
I knew it was impossible to force a mate bond — Gage was right. Since that was true, then on some level, I really had chosen this. I had betrayed Flint.
“There is nothing to be sorry for, moonbeam. Unless you’ve decided Gage is your one and only.”
His hands didn’t stray from my lower back, as if he already knew the answer.
“What? No, I’m… hebitme, Flint. Your pack alpha claimed me.”
After Flint had said I could be with all three of them if I wanted to, I’d examined my feelings and realized I cared about them all. Flint had won me over from the very beginning, and lately I’d been falling for Gage, too. Things between Heath and I were confused, but… I longed to explore that connection, as well. Somewhere along the way, I’d stopped wanting to belong to one man alone.
But now Gage had marked me as his.
I tried to push away from Flint, but his iron grip tightened around me.
“And?”
