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fae, someone who was not his Alpha, not his mate, not even his species, held the ability to call forth his beast. He couldn’t fight the command. It was given as sure as if she was his own Alpha. He felt his wolf take over and the man could only watch. I am as bothered by this as you, he sensed from his wolf. Then the wolf gazed out from the eyes of the human.
    “What am I to speak, female?” Dalton’s wolf watched her carefully. He had known she was powerful, but this, this was dangerous.
    “How do you feel about the bond being broken between you and Jewel?”
    “Little Dove,” he rumbled affectionately. “She is mine.”
    “So you don’t think she’s dead?”
    He growled. “I do not know. My human initially felt nothing for her. But he is remembering that it’s her, not the bond, that caused his love. We aren’t connected, but that changes nothing. She is mine. I will find her, even if all I find is her body. I will kill anyone who gets in my way.”
    P eri stood staring at the beast that had not only bitten her but was now basically letting her and the other two males know that he wasn’t about to submit. She had no doubt that Dalton’s wolf would indeed kill anyone who attempted to keep him from searching for his mate, which would quite certainly lead to his own death ― if not by Dillon’s hand, then by Lucian’s. Damn stubborn wolves, Peri thought to herself. But as she continued to stare at him, she looked past the determination in the wolf’s eyes and saw the pain. He was hurting. Peri didn’t know why it hit her so hard, but like a punch to the chest, the anguish in the beast’s eyes crashed into her.
    Dalton had said that Jewel was dead. He felt no pull towards her and she had to admit that it was a pretty convincing argument in favor of her life being indeed snuffed out. But that just wasn’t acceptable to Peri. Healers did not die on her watch. It was something she could not abide, and that wasn’t about to change now just because Volcan, and his crazy-ass self, had stepped into the picture.
    Peri turned and looked at her mate who had already started to walk towards her. “I’ll just be a minute.” She flashed just as he lunged for her. Lucian would be pissed at her for leaving him, but she didn’t have time to argue with him. She’d just have to give him an extra long belly scratch later.
    “As much as my wolf loves a good belly scratch, he loves knowing your safe even more. When are you going to stop acting as though you aren’t mated?” Lucian’s voice was as patient as ever, but Peri knew he was truly upset with her.
    “I was single for thousands of years, wolf. You can’t expect me to suddenly just become Suzy homemaker.”
    “You know that is not what I am asking of you. I do not wish to change you. I simply want you to allow me to be by your side. You don’t have to do any of this alone, not anymore.”
    Peri appeared in the living room of her home and stood there pinching the bridge of her nose. She seemed to be doing that human-like behavior more and more. She understood what Lucian was asking and it was something she wanted as well. She just didn’t know how to keep from acting without stopping to think about someone else.
    “Do what you need to do, Perizada. I’m not going anywhere and I realize that we have more important things to handle right now. I’m just asking you to attempt to see things from my perspective.”
    He slipped from her mind, leaving her alone.
    “Not alone, love. Never alone. Just giving you space.”
    Peri’s heart clenched painfully in her chest as the love she felt for her wolf threatened to choke her. What she did to deserve a man so patient and loving she didn’t know, but she was unbelievably grateful that the Great Luna had seen fit to put them together. She knew Lucian was right. She needed to make more of an effort to act as a team and less as a lone ranger.
    Peri’s attention was drawn from her relationship woes by the sound of a