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nephew out of his sight.
    “Oscar begged until I couldn’t do anything but say yes. You did vouch for him, right?” Seth looked like he was going to run for the door and rescue the whelp.
    Chance grabbed his mate around his waist, pulling Seth close to his body. He wasn’t sure what happened with the man, but since arriving last night, Seth had changed. He stuck close to Chance, touched him a hell of a lot, and was very receptive to Chance touching him.
    Maybe the near-death experience had been a good thing, at least for Chance. “Oscar’s fine. Don’t forget my baby brother’s at home. Oscar will have a good time.”
    “Oscar said there were bears on the ranch. Do you guys get them often?”
Chance almost bit his damn tongue off.
No one had shifted in front of Oscar or Seth. How in the hell did the little guy know? That pipsqueak had some explaining to do. “My pa will protect Oscar with his life.” He didn’t want to lie. He’d already omitted so many truths to Seth that he was sure the man was going to start asking for better answers. He had been damn close last night in telling Seth that Chauncey needed to shift to heal. But that wasn’t something he wanted to discuss in a hospital.
It wasn’t something he wanted to discuss at all, but Chance knew why his pa had taken Oscar. It was time for Chance to come clean with his mate. He was going to wait until they got to Seth’s apartment, but Chance could feel his heart already beating out of control. He was terrified Seth would turn on him and walk away.
“You ready?” Chance asked as he walked Seth to the parking lot. Chance could not believe how damn nervous he was. Oh, how the mighty have fallen . He used to be carefree, not a worry to his name. Now he had a mate who had no clue he was a mate, a son/nephew to raise, and a twin who might suffer brain damage if the shift into his bear form didn’t work.
Damn if things weren’t a mess.
Seth opened the apartment door once they made it back to Brac Village. Chance could smell the nervousness coming off of Seth in waves. This was the first time they’d been alone together. Although Oscar had grown on Chance, he was glad for some long-overdue privacy.
“Would you like something to drink?” Seth asked as he set his keys down and glanced around the apartment as if he’d never seen it before.
“Water or juice would be fine.” Chance took a seat on the sofa.
It was the only thing to sit on in the living room. The couch was comfortable as hell, but a light-green couch with daisy prints wouldn’t have been Chance’s first choice. The coffee table in front of the couch had seen better days, scratch marks and small nicks scarring the dark wood.
Chance knew that Seth slept on the couch, so sitting here now made things feel a little more intimate. There was a slim rectangular table that stood taller than the coffee table over by the door where Seth always deposited his keys, and a small entertainment stand that held a television.
Chance wasn’t aware that tube televisions were even sold anymore. The entertainment stand held only one more item, and that was the DVD player. The remotes sat on the coffee table, and the movies sat underneath in their cases. It was plain, but homey.
Seth walked back in with two glasses of apple juice, setting them on rounded coasters. Chance ran his hands down the front of his jeans, removing the excess moisture from the palms of his hands. He’d had sex before, and lord knew he was an expert at the subject, but this was different. Seth was his mate. He wasn’t even sure if they would get that far tonight, but the possibility of being with Seth intimately had Chance’s cock perking up.
Unfortunately he was going to have to tell Seth about his bear before they had sex. For a bear to make the bond between mates work, they only had to sleep together. It would be pretty fucked up to have sex with Seth and then say, “Oh, by the way, we’re mated for life.” Yeah, not gonna happen.