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What kind of a man tried to destroy his children?
    “Why? He was your father. Surely he loved and protected you.”
    She started walking beside him again, only slower. “My father didn’t love my mother. He married her because she got pregnant with me. It was one of the reasons she was always so unhappy. She had no other family. No one who could help her and she wasn’t like me. My mother was a gracious and beautiful woman, but she didn’t know how to survive on her own. She wasn’t going to let that happen to me, though. My mom raised me to be independent. She saw what life with my father was like and she wanted better for me. ”
    “In what sense?” He wanted, no, he needed to know more about this complex woman. She had so much more in her than he could have imagined. The lion in him had claimed her the moment he got her scent, but the more he spoke to her, the more Luke, the man, wanted her.
    She glanced at him with a grin. “I’m stubborn. I won’t let anyone tell me what to do. He, my dad, tried to do just that from his grave.” She cleared her throat. “I have to get married or I lose what rightfully belongs to me.” She shook her head. “I didn’t marry when he ordered me to, and I sure as hell won’t do it now.”
    “You were engaged?”
    She glanced at him sheepishly. “Three times actually.”
    “Were they your father’s choices and that is why it didn’t work?”
    “Two of them were my choices; they wanted to change who I was. The third was my father's choice and he was just like him.”
    “Are you against marriage?” He wondered how she’d feel about being mated. Would she object to his claiming her as his woman?
    “Not at all. If someone is in love and wants to get married, more power to them. I’ve seen what a fucked up marriage can do to people and their kids. I refuse to sign myself up for a life of misery with someone whose only wish is to not see my face every day, thank you very much. If I get married it’s because we are in love. We are equals in the marriage. I don’t want to be less than my husband.”
    He nodded. “I can understand that.”
    He opened the back door to his cabin for her to enter. She removed her coat and gear. He took it from her, hung it by the door. A good fire would help warm her faster. He rushed to the living room where he’d left the fire with only a few logs and added more. The fire came to life and heat poured into the surrounding.
    “Kira,” he called.
    She strolled to his side. “Oh, fire. Thank you.”
    She sat on the rug he’d taken her on. The memory of her beautiful curvy body rocking over him, taking his cock deep and listening to her moan made him hard exceptionally fast. This wasn’t the time to think about that, but the lion inside was at the peak of his sexual need. Taking her again would drive him to want to mate her more.
    “Come sit,” she said, patting the rug by her side. “Or did I scare you with my talks about my dad.”
    He dropped by her side, watching the fire light her features. “My birth mother wasn’t the right woman for my father either.”
    She glanced at him, her beautiful arched brows rose high. “What happened?”
    “They were in lust. She got pregnant. He kept me and she left to figure out her life.” He’d been a baby when she left so he had never gotten a chance to know her. Did he miss knowing who she was? Not really. His father had been amazing and once Luna came into the picture, she’d given him more love than he could have asked for.
    “Was it hard growing up without your mother around? I still miss my mom every day. She was the light in the darkness that was my father's home.”
    “Not really. I couldn’t miss what I didn’t know. Luna filled her role, and has been the best thing to ever to happen to our family. I try not to think about my birth mother, she never tried to contact me or my father since they day she left. We were better off without her.”
    “That sucks,” she said. “Some