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heavy oak door shut with his heel. Lawrence was house-proud. If the slightest crack appeared anywhere, he’d bloody well spot it.
    “There you are,” purred Selena to his right, and he sighed. He wasn’t in the mood. The full moon was tonight. Selena was dangerous around the full moon – actually, she was dangerous at any time – and he was pissed because with Ryan missing he couldn’t be where he really wanted to be.
    “Is that little exhalation because you’re pleased to see me?”
    “Selena—”
    “I thought you’d run off again like you do every month … back to her.”
    He couldn’t stop the low growl that rumbled through him. “ Her is no one you ever need talk about.”
    Selena tutted, swishing her strawberry-blonde hair from side to side as she shook her head. “Yet she’s the only one that can make you lose your cool. I could make you lose your cool … if you’d just let me.”
    “Where’s Lawrence.”
    She pushed air out between her teeth at his rebuttal of her. “Where he always is.”
    He made to go up the stairs, but she placed herself in his path as she too often did.
    “Taylor, how long are we going to play this little game for?”
    “It is all just a game to you, isn’t it?”
    “She’s not like us—”
    “I told you—” he marched her up against the end of the cherry wood banister, and pinned her there with his stare “—not to talk about her.”
    “We don’t have to talk about her,” she grinned, the tip of her tongue poking out to flick across her top lip. She suddenly reached out, yanked him forwards and he fell against her.
    His body responded immediately, his dick hardening, and of course, she wasted no time in grabbing him through his trousers. “There are other things – many more wonderful things – I could do with my mouth.”
    He stood there for a second, pressed against her, letting her rub herself on him and doing his darnedest not to breathe in her mating scent.
    “See how hard I make you?” she said hoarsely.
    He took in her eyes, brown and seductive, yet watery with a need that all unmated females had when in their early twenties – especially at this time of month. His frustration with her waned. It wasn’t her fault. She was as ruined as himself; as most of them were. “Biology, Selena. That’s all.”
    “Biology can make this easier for both of us.” She went to slip her hand past the waistband of his trousers, but he caught her wrist and stopped her.
    “I’m sorry this is hard for you, but I’m not what you’re looking for – I don’t want it easy.” He brushed past her and ascended the stairs.
    “It’s your duty as an unmated male!” she spat out after him. “God-damned martyr!”
    Guilt twinged his heart, because she wasn’t wrong. It was his duty. He had no ties. Except that wasn’t true: he had one tie he refused to let go of.
    “Taylor.” Lawrence’s icy voice – which matched his icy blue eyes – reached him from across the corridor at the top of the staircase. The blond man stood well over six foot tall, and was as imposing as any assassin – god knows, he had the air of one.
    “Lawrence, I was coming to speak to you.”
    “Are you upsetting Selena again?”
    Ah … there was that guilt once more, and always accompanied with the grief for the one he couldn’t forget.
    “She’s right, you know,” he continued. “You should let her go, before you end up like me.” And that wasn’t said lightly – no one wanted to end up like Lawrence.
    “Selena will find herself another male to—”
    “She’ll come to me. And I’ll relieve her, as I always do, because I know my duty.”
    Taylor winced. The silence that followed wrapped those words around him like a vice.
    Lawrence leaned against the banister, casually. Only it wasn’t casual, and Ryan, along with Taylor, were the only ones who knew the truth about him. “Did you find any more information?”
    “No.”
    More silence. The full moon was upon them now,