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rest of the family. That was another whole fiasco. She wanted to move out and have her own place. She was trying to establish some independence and control over her life, but the fathers flipped out. Holy Goddesses, they ranted and raved over that discussion. Finally her mother had gotten them to compromise.
    Ariella had her own room on the side of the estate where she could have privacy and feel as if she were living on her own.
    Not really. Not with four Alpha wolves as dads and a mom who had her own special powers and abilities to see the future.
    She entered the bedroom and slammed the door closed. Even that bothered her headache. She knew exactly why as she undid the zipper to her dress, feeling her tender breasts ache as the material holding them in place fell to the floor. She cupped them as she gasped.
    “Son of a bitch. I don’t believe this. Why is this happening now?
    Why, when I’m only twenty-two years old and have so many plans?”
    she asked aloud to her empty room.
    She grabbed another dress and headed into the bathroom.
    Flashbacks of Orion and Palidor in the forest, coming to her “rescue.”
    As if .
    She turned the water in the shower on and then tested the temperature.
    Orion, son of fire, an exquisite hunter as a child and teen, filled her thoughts. Tall, dark, and handsome. Yeah, that and then some.
    The man was a work of art, and the wolf in him called to her own wolf side. He was gloriously large with wide shoulders, bulging muscles, and a face of determination as hard as stone. His bold blue Brothers of Were, Goddess of Love
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    eyes locked on her body, and she nearly exploded inside of her panties. By the Goddesses, this can’t be happening to me. I’m petite, I’m independent, and I don’t want to be mated to men whose egos are as huge as their bodies. Not now. Not anytime soon.
    She stepped into the shower and closed her eyes. Clenching them tightly, she tried harder to push thoughts of Orion and Palidor out of her head. But the pain hit her head in such a fierce manner, she gasped and placed her palms on the tiled wall in front of her to get through the pain. Her magic seemed to be weakening. She overexerted herself out there in the forest. She didn’t want them to know she was their mate, and she used her reserve of fairy power to block their attempts at inhaling her scent while in the forest, the entire journey home and then in the presence of her fathers and mother.
    Now she would suffer the consequences. She truly hadn’t expected the force of the mating musk, to be so bold. It seemed that the only thing to do was to avoid those men entirely.
    She knew what she had to do as she calmed her breathing and tried to ease her mind of any thoughts whatsoever. As the heated water cascaded over her sensitive skin, she turned around and began to wash her hair, soap up her body and try to physically wipe away any memories of the day’s events.
    Ariella eased her mind and thought about the relaxation techniques her mother, Antoinette, had taught her. She, too, suffered from a case of not following orders and destiny every now and again.
    Ariella’s fathers, Jacob, Troy, Brad, and Luke, had to reprimand her time and time again about her place in the pack. They didn’t want Ariella to reveal all her abilities, but the damn wolves were so aggressive and narcissistic at times that she was compelled to prove herself just as capable as they were. Boy had those times caused some heated arguments.
    She leaned back and let the hot water wash away the tension she felt. Immediately, she thought about Palidor. His image was that of a chivalrous knight with piercing blue eyes, slicked black hair always 26
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    trimmed perfect, and a debonair aura aroused every female in the near vicinity. That thought upset her, made her feel jealousy, and she had to snort in annoyance with herself. Palidor was some serious eye candy. Their absence and secret works for the Circle hadn’t gone unnoticed by