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Eagan slowly brought his arms up until one was wrapped securely around her waist and the other with his palm between her shoulder blades. She let out another relaxed sigh, and he was struck with the realization that everything was as it should be in that very moment in time. A perfect second in an infinity of seconds.
There wasn’t any sacrifice he wouldn’t make for her. Nothing was asking too much. His clan, his body, his mind, he’d lose any of it for her. Andthat, he knew instinctually, was what a big cat mating was truly about. The rest of it was just tradition. The ways of their ancestors weren’ttheirways. And the great thing about traditions was they could be broken.
Renner had it right. And Eagan was going to help him show the others.
With that thought settled, sleep pulled at him once again.
“Do you normally sleep in trees?”
“No,” Clara murmured drowsily. “A mattress made of a sleeping bag and old newspapers.”
His heart squeezed tight at the thought of his mate in the wild, sleeping on scraps she’d collected. Never again. Even if he had to follow her out there and be her personal Tempur-pedic.
He squeezed her tighter against his chest. “Damn. There goes my Katniss fantasy.”
“Who?” she asked, her voice slurred with sleep.
He let out a soft laugh. “Nevermind. Sleep, little woman.”
