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didn’t freak out on him.
    “And that is?”
    “I’m two hundred and thirty-four years old, and I will live to be one thousand…and so will you.” He held his breath, waiting. When his mate just lay against him, not saying a word, Evan’s anxiety began to reach an all new high. Sometimes silence was worse than ranting and raving.
    “Huh. One thousand. I can’t even get my head wrapped around how long that is.”
    Evan started breathing again.
    “You’re old.” Lewis laughed as Evan squeezed his arms around his mate tighter. “You have been around long enough to see our modernization take shape.”
    “You wouldn’t believe how happy we Sentries were when the cell phone was invented. Beat standing in a phone booth naked making a collect call.”
    “Naked?”
    “When we shift, clothes go bye-bye, and when we return to our human form, no clothes.”
    Lewis huffed. “You won’t be shifting around anyone else, buddy.”
    Evan tilted Lewis’s head back, laying a soft kiss against his lips.
    “You’re sexy when you get all jealous.”
    “And the image of you in a glass phone booth naked is hot as hell, almost as if you would be on display for me.” Lewis laughed softly.

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    His mate moaned into the kiss, stretching himself out to reach Evan’s lips. Evan picked him up…then threw his mate into the pond.
    “Hey, what was that for?” Lewis asked as he sputtered, wiping the water from his eyes.
    Evan stood there laughing, Lewis was gorgeous wet. His mate swam to the edge, yanking Evan’s leg, unbalancing him, making him fall in next to Lewis. Lewis laughed and tried to swim away as Evan growled, chasing after him.

    * * * *
    Lewis pulled at the hem of his T-shirt. He looked around, praying no one called on him. He wasn’t ready for that.
    Drew grabbed his hand, lightly squeezing it to show Lewis he was there with him and wasn’t going anywhere. Lewis held onto that small hand, not sure if it was to reassure his friend or himself. Either way it didn’t matter. It felt like a lifeline that Lewis needed right now.
    They were in a room at the local recreation center, where ten people were sitting in a circle telling their story. Lewis knew alcoholism was widespread. He just didn’t have a clue how many people in a small town were afflicted by it. It was sobering knowing five of the people in this group suffered as he did.
    Remi and Evan were waiting outside. Lewis had insisted he could get Drew back safely, but once Evan explained to him about rogue wolves and vampires, Lewis felt better knowing two full grown shape-shifting wolves waited for them.
    He may be a tough cop, but he was far from stupid or suicidal. He had Drew to think about as well.
    The meeting wrapped up after an hour. Lewis was thankful no one called on him to give his story, but he had listened to the others, even Drew’s, and it made him look at his little friend in a whole new light.
    He understood more clearly where Drew was coming from. He didn’t feel so alone in his problem.

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    Evan had also told him about the other mates and their struggles.
    He wanted to kill Oliver and Blair’s father. He never understood child abuse, molestation being the worst form of it. To rape your own child was the vilest thing in Lewis’s book.
    He had learned a lot over the past weeks. The wolves were referred to as Sentries, guardians of the mates. They were more commonly referred to as warriors, and Lewis could see why. They were all huge, except for the one they called Caden. He looked like the runt of the litter.
    Maverick was their Alpha. He looked like he could stop your breathing from just a glance. Then there was the Beta, Kota. The warrior who commanded the Sentries was Hawk. Lewis wouldn’t want to run into that man in a dark alley. But Evan was the one who put fear in many hearts. He had an air about him that warned you away, but Lewis was falling in love with him. He saw the other side to the wolf that many