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he got home from work. She’d overdosed on sleeping pills. It nearly destroyed him, and it destroyed me as well to watch the man who had fast become my friend hurt so much.”
    “Graham stepped in and helped put the pieces together and made sure the kids had what they needed,” Nevan said grimly.
    Graham nodded. “Isaac and I weren’t mates.” He sat back and scrubbed a hand over his face. “It took months for Isaac to start living again. I moved in with him and the kids. Everything seemed to be moving forward. Isaac took a new job paying double what he’d been making, and then, about a year ago, he took the kids and left. No forwarding address and his cell phone was cut off.”
    Blaine stretched out his arm across the couch behind Cameron’s head. “And last night we find the kids running from the Onyx goons and mutants.”
    Graham met his gaze, and Cameron swore she saw a flicker of anger mixed with hurt pass across his face before it disappeared. Nodding, Graham answered Blaine’s unasked question. “I talked to Sammie briefly last night. She said the rogues came and took them. They stayed in a cell. It was the same thing she told Dani. Sammie said Isaac found them yesterday and freed them, telling her to come to Ashwood to find Nevan.”
    Cameron stiffened. “Do you think he was keeping tabs on you?”
    “Yes, and the kids.” Graham looked at Keegan. “I want to be a part of finding out what happened to Isaac and why they wanted the kids.”
    Keegan gave a sharp nod. “You can work with Blaine and Cameron. We’ve been monitoring an area not far from where the kids were found.”
    Cameron felt Blaine stiffen beside her as he stood. With a cool tone, he addressed Graham. “Come by Russell’s Bar this afternoon. I’ll have Hayden and Dane meet us there.”
    After he’d left, Shay blew out a breath. “What the hell is his problem?”
     
     
     
     

Chapter 3
     
    Graham watched Cameron as she helped Max stack some blocks a couple of Den mothers had dropped off shortly after Keegan left. Cam stayed to entertain the kids while Nevan went to the community center to play basketball with an enforcer named Alec and several youth males. As the Pack Empath, Nevan had to spend time with everyone, getting to know them and their emotional layers.
    Taking his eyes from the sensual female, he tried to focus back on the plans of the new nursery he’d started. Yet, his mind wouldn’t focus on work. Instead, thoughts of Cameron and Blaine stirred. The couple captivated him and were in his every thought.
    Damn. What was it about those two that drew him?
    He had an idea, but he couldn’t let it grow. No, he couldn’t think about the possibility that Blaine and Cameron could both be his mates. There was no way they’d welcome him into their lives.
    “Papa?”
    He glanced over at Sammie and smiled. She looked better than she had last night. Her blond hair shined and hung past her shoulders, and her blue eyes were clear. They no longer held the wildness they had at the medical center. “What is it, baby?” He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her to him, placing a kiss to her forehead.
    “I missed you,” she said, wrapping her arms around his waist.
    Chest tightening, he gently squeezed her closer. “I missed you too.” He just held her for several moments before asking the one question that, deep in his soul, he feared to ask, no matter what the answer would be. “Sam, did the bad men…hurt you or Max in any way?”
    She lifted her head to hold his stare with her intelligent blue gaze. “No. They gave us food, and a woman came by to care for us. But I sent her away.”
    He smiled at her protective tone. “Why?”
    She shrugged. “She didn’t help us, didn’t offer any comfort. Max needed to be held, loved. We needed our parents.”
    He hugged her again and spoke against her hair. “The Alphas here have offered to let us stay. Would you like to live here in the den?”
    Her head bobbed up