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on his shoulder, her fingers twining with his on his lap.
    “I missed you too,” Lucan teased,
batting his eyelashes at Alec.
    “Cute,” Mercy told her brother, swatting
him on the arm playfully. “Do you think we could have some dessert now?” She
stared at the tray of brownies on the counter with a lustful expression that
made them all laugh.
     “Great, I’m gone for two days, but it
is the tray of brownies she longs for,” Alec said with a grin.
    Lucan turned to the counter to cut the brownies
she had been eyeing
    “You know that’s not true,” she murmured
in his ear. “But you said we had to be good so I’m lusting after something I
can actually have.
    Alec chuckled and pulled her onto his
lap wrapping his arms around her.  “While I agree I might have been hasty in
that promise, I know once we have bonded I will be thankful I made it.” He
nuzzled her neck playfully and she sighed. “What’s wrong, baby?”
    “I can’t stand all of this time apart from
each other.” She met his gaze evenly. “I want to do the Bonding Ceremony as
soon as possible after graduation.” 
    Lucan, hearing their conversation,
dropped the plate had been holding. The plate hit the ground, shattering immediately,
sending pieces of brownie and glass across the floor. “There is no need to rush
this,” he said, ignoring the mess on the floor and striding quickly to the
table. “You have the rest of your life together, why try and hurry this along.”
    “Lucan, we know what we want. Why are
you so against this?” Mercy said with a sigh.
    “I’m not against you two being together,
someday.  I just want you to have time to explore the world, to go to college,
and live a little before you are drawn into the demands of being the mate of an
Alpha.”
    “It will be a long time before Alec has
to become the Alpha of his pack. I can still explore the world and I can still
go to college after we bond.  There is no law that states a female cannot
attend college once she is bonded, is there?”
    “No, of course not,” Lucan said wearily.
    Alec figured it was as good a time as
any to broach the subject of his father stepping down as Alpha, but was
interrupted when Cade walked into the room after a weekend away with his mate’s
family. 
    Mercy cried out happily, jumping from
Alec’s lap to hug her brother. Since he had found his mate, he now traveled
back and forth between her pack in Tennessee and their home on a regular basis
and she missed him terribly. “I missed you,” she told him as he enveloped her
in his muscular arms.
    “Not as much as I missed you,” he said
hugging her close, his expression grim as he met Alec’s gaze over her shoulder.
    Alec stiffened, sensing something very
wrong and when Cade let Mercy go, he pulled her back into his arms wrapping her
tightly in his embrace, dreading what Cade had to say.  
    Lucan, too, read his brother’s anxiety
and knew he wanted to talk without their sister around. “Mercy it’s late, why
don’t you get to bed and let Alec get some rest. I am sure he is tired, and you
both have school tomorrow,” he said, rising from the table.
    “Are you serious?” Mercy replied, angry he
was treating her like a child.
    Alec felt her anger and faked a yawn,
then placed a kiss on her head. “I am kind of tired, Angel, why don’t we call
it a night?” he asked, playing along with her brother.
    “Oh, alright then,” Mercy said easily,
all her anger at her brother disappearing at the idea of spending time alone
with Alec. It seemed lately that when he was around, they were almost never
alone, so if she could catch a few minutes by herself with him then she was up
for calling it an early night. She allowed him to escort her outside where they
walked to the rose garden and he promptly pulled her into his arms for a goodnight
kiss.
    For once, she thought, everything in her
life was perfect. She had embraced her Were side, was in the arms of the one
male on earth meant to be