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made to be in my arms. I felt a peace I haven’t known in a long time,” Lars replied. He wondered if she felt the connection earlier today. That might be why she was so flustered tonight. “Hopefully, it didn’t damage our chances.”
    “She’s thinner than she used to be. I don’t think she takes good care of herself.”
    “Agreed, we’ll have to be the ones to take care of her.” Lars smiled as a feeling of camaraderie washed over him. “She’s very focused on her son and her future. We can’t simply march up to her and make her decisions for her. She’ll fight harder.”
    “She’s having dinner with the Bennetts tonight. When I left, River and the McNamaras were there, too.”
    “How did she react to them?”
    “From what I could tell, it didn’t faze her too much.” Cris finished the beer in his hand and put the empty bottle on the deck next to him. “What about Zack? Could you accept him as your son as well?”
    “When I claimed Beatrice, she had three children I would’ve accepted as my own if she’d have let me. I lived with them as their father figure for years and in all that time I didn’t feel the connection to them as I did to Zack today. The moment I lifted him from the back of the car and he wrapped his arms around me, I knew I wanted him to be mine.” It was like his heart had shifted and expanded. He had loved Beatrice and cared deeply for her children, but Beatrice had always reminded him they weren’t his.
    “You realize we have a bigger issue to face than her simply accepting us both into her life.”
    “Why do I think she will have an easier time accepting the idea of a polyamorous relationship than the truth about shape-shifters? We can’t let this drag on. The sooner we tell her the better.”
    “Could you love her the way she deserves to be loved, Lars? Could you finally put aside all the guilt you still carry around from your past and build a future with her?”
    “She’s the other half of my soul, Cris. I knew the moment my hands touched her.”
    “Then we have our answer and we have a lot to plan.” Cris pushed to his feet. “And I for one cannot plan how to claim our Mate on an empty stomach. Didn’t you say earlier you were bringing steaks?” Cris wandered back down the dock toward his trailer.
    Lars took another look over his lake. The deprivation he longed for earlier was gone. Now he was desperate to feel Tara’s soft skin under his fingertips. He wanted to see her body fill out with their child and be there for every moment. He wanted to claim her for life and nothing else was going to do.
     
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    Despite all the revelations of last night, Tara had slept like a rock. Zack slept in, too, which was almost unheard of for him. She’d lain in bed this morning trying to calm her panicked thoughts. She looked out the window at a large tree covered in leaves in various shades of colour as she reviewed the night before. Seeing Cris again had been a shock, even more so than being surrounded by ménage couples. A few times she’d wondered if she hadn’t survived the accident, or maybe had dropped into some dimensional divide, because everything had felt so surreal. She’d met more kindness in the last twenty hours from complete strangers than in the twenty years she’d lived with her family and their narrow-minded community.
    Her neck and back weren’t as sore as she was expecting when she’d finally gotten up and moving, which was a relief. She’d tried calling the mechanics’ shop, but there hadn’t been an answer. When she’d asked Albert if he knew them, he started telling about last night’s episode of Coronation Street . Not having a clue what he was talking about she’d politely excused herself and took Zack down to explore the water like she’d promised him the day before.
    No sooner was Zack distracted than her thoughts turned to Cris again. He created an entire heap of concerns for her. He didn’t give her the impression last night