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showing up in our workout room.
    Shelly’s attitude was always harsh. I knew it would be a fight to accomplish anything between our factions. She was too much like me. Figuring out the right way to do things would be a serious battle. I couldn’t stop my mind from dreaming of that aggression being used in a much more pleasant way. I imagined her fighting to pull me deeper into her body. Those long harsh nails digging moats across the landscape of my back. I bent over and tucked my cock into the waistband of my shorts. I couldn’t make it go down if I kept thinking like that.
    I hadn’t taken a mate since I was turned. Some were not thrilled with my choice to remain single. Doc didn’t question it. I owed my life to this man in more than one way. He had turned me and my daughter, taught us how to live in this second incarnation, and let me grieve my wife when others would have fought me for dominance. He let me lead. Our relationship was strange. I often wondered why he stayed with me, but I would never be able to repay him for his support as my second.
    That didn’t mean I wanted to talk about getting a hard on at extremely inappropriate times and around extremely inappropriate people. “I don’t want to discuss my attraction to Shelly.”
    “Well then, let’s talk about mine.”
    My growl didn’t bow his head in submission, but he did avert his gaze.
    “Sorry,” I said. “That slipped out.” My wolf wasn’t sorry in the least.
    “It’s natural.” That was Doc’s explanation for every time I was an ass to him. All this time and I still had trouble leading him. It was a damn good thing he was a Beta. “And I know that the Pack would love for our Alpha to take a female. But they might take issue with that female being of the deceased persuasion.”
    “You want her too. Are you trying to tell me they wouldn’t care if the Beta took to an interspecies relationship?” I felt my eyebrows arch high. I couldn’t believe Doc was going to try and sell me that one.
    “Oh no. We’re both screwed on that front. But I think we also know that Shelly’s arousal was more pronounced when I joined the air space. She wants us both.”
    Karma, fate, whatever you call it. Something had it out for me. I’d told my daughter when she left us to take love however it comes to her. I’d meant that.
    Before I’d been turned, my wife and I had been happy. But there’d been something missing. Another man held half her heart. Back then, there had been no such thing as an alternative lifestyle. She and I both knew that sharing a marriage with another would do nothing but bring shame to our families. I’d never met the other man, and she refused to tell me who he was. She said she was protecting his privacy. She didn’t want to ruin his reputation since he’d already left to let us be together.
    I’d had to comfort the love of my life through the fallout when he stepped back. Part of me was happy she was with me, but more of me was devastated that I couldn’t give her everything she needed.
    Then fate took her away from the world with a wolf attack. So what would it have mattered if we had been ostracized?
    I reached for the leather pouch of Lily’s that I used to keep with me. It wasn’t there. I had given it to my daughter. I needed to think about something else.
    “Doc, I respectfully suggest we discuss other topics.” Something that wouldn’t bring up a memory. “What do you suggest we do about the blood situation?”
    “I’d say let’s rip apart some more harvesters. Do you know where they are?” Doc looked ready to fight again. Sexual frustration is great fuel for battle.
    “We need to know who to take out this time. I’m not slaughtering an entire Family of vampires.” Especially when Shelly was the Protector of the Family we were talking about.
    “I’m not suggesting that. I’m not naïve enough to think we could at this point.” Doc got that calculating look in his eyes, but I couldn’t tell if it