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rest of us might not be.”
    Margaret met Hallie’s gaze and nodded. The laughter had faded and reality hit her in the face. She knew how hard Sam fought the mate hunt.
    The nobles still enforced the old traditions on their children. Noble blood had to fight for a mate in a hunt. The strongest won the female. Magick and the bond between souls was never taken into account. It was that blatant disregard for the natural order of mating that had contributed to, if not caused, Sam’s mother, to lose her mind.
    Hallie and her twin sister, Tess, would both turn twenty-five in a couple of years. Nicole would come of age later this year. Until Sam, it’d never crossed Margaret’s mind how unfair the hunt was. Not only did it deprive those matched by the hunt of their true mate, it deprived the souls that should have been their mates, too.
     
     

CHAPTER THREE
     
     
    They are still in the damn bathroom.
    Scott O’Hearn paced the hallway leading to the lobby of the hotel. Several other guests passed by, but no one said anything to the six-foot-eleven, two-hundred-fifty pound man wearing a hole in the carpet. He was used to it. Most people were intimidated and avoided speaking to him if at all possible. Except women. Human women, especially, seemed very attracted to him. He never had any trouble conversing with them. Why was he with this woman? Female shifters weren’t that different from human women.
    “No they’re not, but they do react the same when you TELL them what to do.”
    Well…she’s mine.
    “Case in point.”
    I know!
    Las Vegas was a fun visit, but he didn’t want stay permanently. He kept an apartment here when Chase was in town, and stayed a few weeks here and there, but now Chase would be living in North Carolina with his wife Samantha. There wasn’t any reason to keep the apartment at all. Especially since he’d just wrapped up his assignment with the army. They’d been trying to get him to re-enlist, but he needed a break. Home was calling.
    Now all he wanted was Margaret to share his home in the mountains —cuddled in his cabin. Vegas was too hot for his comfort most of the time. It was the beginning of spring and the weather was nice right now. But when summer hit, he had no intentions of being within a hundred miles of this scalding desert.
    Wolves and a lot of other shifters lived in Las Vegas because weird things weren’t even noticed in this city. People here accepted the oddities without a second glance. Strange was the norm. That suited most supernaturals just fine, but bears preferred thick mountain forests, higher altitudes, and cooler air.
    Female voices approaching from behind made him turn. Samantha’s two other sisters cast him smirks before ducking into the ladies room he was guarding.
    Seriously, how big is that bathroom?
    His bear did not comment. He wasn’t surprised.
    A blond head poked out a few moments later. He met the woman’s gaze and waited. He was pretty sure it was Hallie Demakis, but it could have been Tess. They were twins and he’d only met them today.
    “She doesn’t want to talk. You need to just go home,” the blonde said calmly.
    A growl rumbled deep in his chest. Margaret was not getting off that easy. He deserved a chance to speak with her again. How could she ignore the connection they had. He’d waited over a century to find a mate. The magick pulled hard. She couldn’t deny him for long without driving herself crazy…him too.
    “I’m not leaving without a way to contact her.”
    The Demakis girl wrinkled her nose and pulled her head back into the bathroom.
    What the hell? I am not that scary. I know she was interested. I could smell her arousal.
    A few moments later the door opened again and the same blonde walked out. He moved toward her and she held out a business card.
    “What’s this?”
    “It’s her card, dumbass.”
    He scoffed and narrowed his eyes. “I get that.”
    She met his gaze with determination and didn’t back away. “This