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elbows tucked into his sides to guard his ribs. “Well now, a challenge after all! I’ll just have to make sure that you do!”
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    An hour later, Donovan slid behind the wheel of his truck with a curse. Gabe had taken it easy on him. That was evident in the fact that Donovan wasn’t in the infirmary, but that didn’t mean he left him unscathed. His ribs hurt like a motherfucker. When Gabe had declared his punishment over, they had toasted to him and Jason and their good fortune with a fifty-year-old scotch.
    His phone vibrated in his pocket just as he tried to gather up the courage to reach over his left shoulder with his right hand for his seatbelt. With a groan, he pushed back against his seat, reaching into his pocket instead to grab his phone. He fumbled to answer the call in his haste to do so when he saw it was Jason.
    “Hey,” he said into the device.
    “Hey back, brother!” Jason’s voice rang with happiness on the other end of the line. “Wait until you meet our April. She is so fucking beautiful.”
    “Where are you? Shall I come there?” Donovan grimaced a little at the needy note in his voice, but screw it, he thought. He wanted to meet the woman destined to be theirs.
    “I thought I would bring her by the house. We’re at a diner now getting to know each other. I have told her a lot about you. ”
    “Have you told her about being our mate?” Donovan asked incredulously.
    “Yes, and I can understand your hesitation, but,” Jason dropped his voice, barely whispering into the phone so that any humans around him wouldn’t hear a thing, “she knows about wolves.”
    “What the hell! How?”
    “I know, right? I think she spent most of her life in the system.” Donovan’s heart ached for the little girl his mate once was, an odd feeling considering he had never met her. “She hasn’t told me all the details yet, but she said that a wolf shifter family took her in when she was sixteen and she learned about them that way.”
    “Well, that makes it easier I guess. You hear a lot of horror stories about women going a little crazy when they find out their lovers have the ability to shapeshift.” Donovan couldn’t even remember the number of men in his old pack and his current one that had been through a rough time with their human mates. “What was her reaction?”
    “She excused herself to go to the bathroom. Even though she knows what we are and how mating among our kind works, she seemed shocked nonetheless. Oh shit, here she comes.” Jason’s voice filled with awe. “Gods, she is a fucking dream. When she looks at me, she fills every part of my heart with a light I never knew existed.”
    Normally, Donovan would have ribbed and hassled his brother to no end for spinning such poetic shit, but hearing him now, and knowing he was looking at and talking about their mate, filled him with anticipation and not a small amount of envy.
    “Sorry, there was a line for the bathroom,” he heard April say. Donovan closed his eyes at the sound of her voice over the phone. She sounded like smoke and sin and had him wanting to sit up and beg.
    “That’s all right, babe,” Jason answered, his voice slightly quieter as if he was holding the phone away from him. “I was just talking to my brother. He wants to say hi to you.”
    Donovan wanted to do a hell of a lot more than say hi, but he held his breath waiting. This was the first time he would speak with his mate, the woman he would cherish above all others for the rest of his life.
    “Hello, Donovan.” And that was it. Just the sound of his name on her lips had Donovan’s cock thickening behind the zipper of his jeans, and his body heating with the need to get to her.
    “Hello, mate.” 
     

Chapter Four
     
    Mate . There was that word again. At first, April thought she had misheard Jason when he informed her that she was not only mate to him, but to his brother Donovan as well. Just hearing Donovan’s name on Jason’s lips stirred