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to be my mate, or why she would resort to magic to keep me away.
    Before she left, Renee and I
had a very intimate relationship. It wasn’t sexual, we never even kissed, but
we never thought twice about holding hands or caressing each other. And a day
rarely went by that we didn’t curl up together on a couch or in a bed at the
end of the night. Sometimes we watched movies or read books, but countless
other times we just fell asleep in each other’s arms.
    Holding her in my arms for
that brief moment before she disappeared had been a revelation. I’d thought the
lack of sex over the past six months was torture; that I might die without it,
but now I knew I’d been missing something even more vital. Now I realized that
I couldn’t live without Renee’s touch, even if it never did become sexual in
nature.
    Of course, the fox didn’t
like that idea. He thought we needed to claim our mate in the most primal way,
and we needed to do it as soon as possible. I knew that wasn’t going to happen
though. When I finally saw Renee in person, I would have two choices. I could
touch her and trigger the mating frenzy that would eventually have us ripping
our clothes off with mindless sexual hunger, or I could take the time to make
her see me as a man worthy of her body and her heart. I knew which option I
should choose, but I wasn’t sure how long I could override the animal clawing
at my insides to get to his mate.

Chapter Three
    ~ Solomon ~
    I awoke in the pitch black of
my bedroom to the sound of loud banging on my front door. Covering my head with
a pillow, I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
    The banging finally stopped
only to be replaced by Doyle’s voice. “Good morning sunshine; time to get out
of bed.”
    I groaned, wondering why I
ever gave him access to my apartment.
    “None of that now, we’re
supposed to spring Josephine on our way to Rook’s for the game. If you don’t
get moving we’re going to miss the kickoff, and it’s the first game of the
season.”
    Damn, I must have slept all
day and into the next evening.
    I sat up, tossed the pillow
aside and immediately wished I hadn’t done either. Doyle must have flipped the
light switch on when he came in the room. The bright light combined with my new
upward position was enough to send shooting pains through my skull and make my
stomach feel like it was doing summersaults.
    Doyle laughed. “That’ll teach
you. Here, Claire said this would help.” He tossed me a tiny bottle, which
landed on my bed when I missed catching it.
    Claire was our resident
psychic. She was Dragon’s mother and the former Dragon Queen. Once I retrieved
the bottle, I drank the potion inside and immediately felt better. Sometimes I
truly loved having a psychic looking out for us.
    “Better?” Doyle asked.
    “Yeah. Give me a few minutes
to take a quick shower then I’ll be out.”
    Doyle left me alone and I
hurried to get ready so we wouldn’t be late.
     
    Once I was dressed, we headed
over to Josephine’s apartment. Josephine was Serafina’s mother. She’d come to
live at the resort shortly after Dragon and Serafina mated six months ago. We’d
been slowly introducing her to our world and a few weeks ago when she decided
to become a nightshifter, she asked me to be her sire. She’d been confined to
her apartment since her transformation but I was confident that we no longer
needed to take that precaution.
    Along the way to Josephine’s
place Doyle asked, “So how did your experiment go last night?”
    I took a deep breath then
told him everything that happened in the dream.
    He stopped dead in his tracks
and asked, “What are you going to do now?”
    I shook my head rubbing the
back of my neck. “I don’t know. We’re all supposed to leave for Supernova two
nights from now, but I think I might just head over there tonight after the
game and try to talk to her.”
    “Any idea who might have
worked the spell for her?” Doyle asked when we started walking