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Chapter 7: His First Mate
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2026-03-30 12:55:53(Jenna POV)
The lawyer in me had been trained to listen to my gut. But the fangirl, she-wolf in me was with her fated mate.
So instead of listening to my gut, when Danny brought up Beth, I simply nodded.
“I am pretty sure that everyone with a pulse knows that you were mated before,” I teased.
He gave me a questioning look.
“The tabloids love you,” I reminded him.
He groaned. “I hate those things.”
“Well, they love you. Or at least they love taking pictures of you.”
“I had to stop looking at them around the time that Beth and I broke up. The stories they told were…”
“Creative?” I suggested, thinking about one article in particular that had suggested that Danny and Beth broke up because she had fallen in love with an alien with three heads.
“Not the word that I would use,” he said seriously.
“Which word would you use?”
“Desperate. Hurtful. Exaggerated.”
My face fell.
“I’m sorry. I enjoyed reading the tabloids when I was a pup, but I never thought about what it would be like to be in your shoes, reading them.”
Danny reached across the table and grabbed my hand.
“Don’t be sorry,” he said reassuringly. “I am bringing it up only because I want to make sure that you are prepared. Once the tabloids learn about you and I, you will be on the receiving end of it, too.”
I took a big sip of my wine.
“Danny, I don’t think the tabloids are going to like me as much as they like you. My past is ---”
“Your past doesn’t matter,” he cut in. “Everyone has one. All that matters is that you are strong enough to withstand it. Beth… she hated it.”
“Is that… is that why you two broke up?”
Danny frowned.
“It was … a lot of things. Beth was fragile. She didn’t like the limelight. She also wanted to have the freedom to travel and be independent, without being weighed down by the responsibilities of a pack, or ….”
He hesitated as he studied my expression.
“…or the responsibilities associated with having pups.”
At this point, he grabbed both my hands and started rubbing circles on them. The sparks this created made me feel drunker than the wine.
“I can already tell that you are stronger than Beth was. More confident. More self-assured. And I can tell that you are independent, which is okay, and we don’t have to stay in the pack if you don’t want to, but ….”
“I want pups,” I blurted out, knowing exactly where he was going with this. “I’ve always wanted pups.”
Danny smiled ear to ear. “Really?”
“Really.”
Danny seemed to relax quite a bit after that, but a knot formed in my stomach and stayed there.
I hadn’t lied. Not entirely. I wasn’t opposed to pups. I had just never pictured having them. More importantly, after my childhood, I was terrified that I wouldn’t know how to properly parent them.
But fangirl me wanted desperately for Danny to accept me. Fangirl me wanted to be better than Beth, so he wouldn't reject me. And fangirl me was willing to agree to have pups if it would make Danny happy.
The lawyer in me recoiled at my own thoughts. Pleasing Danny was a stupid reason to agree to have pups, and I knew it. Even so, I refused to take the words back, or to even clarify them.
Little did I know that this would soon become the first time, of many times, that I would twist myself into a pretzel to please him.
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