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(Kathyrn’s POV)

Tyler led me to his room. I tried a couple of times to get him to talk, but he wouldn’t say a word. He turned on the shower then started to take my clothes off, I didn’t stop him. Both of us entered the shower, the hot water felt good on my sore muscles. He picked up a washcloth and poured some bathwash on it. Slowly he started to wash my body.I turned around and faced him, his eyes were golden color, the same as Goliath’s and he was still covered with blood. I took the cloth from him and used it on him. He didn’t move and still refused to talk. I washed him from head to toe, then finished washing my own body. I turned off the water and handed him a towel.

Halfheartly he dried himself off then dropped the towel on the floor. He grabbed hold of my hand and led me to the bed. I barely dried myself off and I threw my towel on top of his. The two of us climbed into bed and he wrapped his body around mine, holding on tight.

“Please, Tyler, talk to me,” I begged him. He refused to answer and just closed his eyes. I sighed and tried to sleep myself. It took a while, but I finally drifted off within the hour.

It was dark outside when I was awakened by Tyler stirring. I tried to roll over so I could face him, but he still had a death grip on my body. Suddenly he released his hold of me.

“I’m sorry,” he softly said,

I rolled over and kissed him on the cheek. “You don’t need to be sorry,” I smiled. “Could you help me understand why you were so quiet?”

He chuckled, “I could only say it has to be due with you being my mate and in moral danger. I barely had time to change form, Glenda was about to pounce on you, I could tell she was going to go for your throat. Goliath took over and killed her, he then refused to give me back control, even after I changed back. He wanted to make sure you were safe. I figured if I could get him to fall asleep with you in his arms I could get back control. It took a while, but he finally let go.”

I snuggled up against him, “It’s good to have you back in control. It was making me nervous when you weren’t.” he gently wrapped his arms around me and kissed the top of my head.

We laid there for a few minutes then I sniffed the blankets. “Mmmm, your scent is all over this bed. I like that.”

“I like your scent too, it belongs here in my bed,” he commented. There was a knock at the door. “Come in,” Tyler said. I covered up my naked body. A young girl carried a tray of food. She placed it on the table by the bed and then left the room. “We missed dinner, I thought you were hungry, so I had Betty send up a tray.”

“This mindlink thing you have comes in handy sometimes,” I said as I slid to the end of the bed to see what we were having. I took a bite of the pot roast from the plate. It was delicious. “Mmm, Betty is such an awesome cook.”

“I totally agree,” he added as he started to scarf down the food. “She always knows what I like.”

“How do you know what it tastes like, you are eating it so fast,” I laughed.

“Well once I finish my dinner I can have my favorite dessert.” He leaned over and gave me a passionate kiss on the lips. I giggled. He placed his plate of food back on the table. “I'd rather have my dessert first.” He pushed me back on the bed and we had sex for hours until we collapsed from exhaustion. The rest of the night we slept entwined with each other.

It was almost 10 am when we were woken up by a phone ringing. It was my phone. Barely awake I answered it without checking to see who was on the other end. “Hello?”

“Hi sunshine, are you just waking up?” the person on the phone asked.

Before I could answer Tyler growled at the sound of a male’s voice. I just looked at him and he looked back, he wasn’t going to back down. “Scott? How are you?’

“I’m doing good, I haven’t heard from you in a while, thought I would check on you and let you know I will be in town this weekend. I was going to stop by if that’s ok.’

Tyler shook his head no, I on the other hand answered, “Sure, it would be good to see you.”

“Great, I will call you on Friday. I will know better when I arrive on Saturday. I can’t wait to find out how things have been going,” Scott sounded excited about the visit.

“I can tell you are driving, so I will talk with you on Friday, drive safe,” I scolded him for calling while driving.“Fine, I will see you soon.” Scott hung up.

“You growled at me?” I asked Tyler.

“Not you, the guy on the phone. And why did you invite him to come to your house for the weekend?” He sounded jealous.

“It will be only for a day. He is a very dear friend. I am not going to say no just because you are being jealous.” I tried to climb out of bed.

He pulled me back. “I can’t help being jealous. You are my mate and you shouldn’t be hanging out with another guy.”

“Scott and I are just friends, get over it.”

“I will have to come and meet this “friend” of yours.”

“You don’t have to. You just have to trust me.”

“I trust you, but I don’t just Jaxson. I can’t leave you alone right now, so I will come with you and we will have security around for extra protection,” he started to explain.

“I can easily explain why you are there. I will just tell him you are my boyfriend, but how do I explain the presence of everyone else?” I was getting annoyed.

“You will not know the others are there; they will be hidden,” he said and then he started to kiss my neck. “As for me, I am more to you than just a boyfriend.”

“Unless you want me to explain to Scott what it means to be a mate, you will have to settle for being my boyfriend,” I added.

“Good point,” he replied and then he went silent and his eyes glazed over. I could tell that he was using his mindlink. “I am late to a meeting.” he climbed out of bed and hurriedly got dressed. He opened up another closet door. “I had your clothes moved over here from the other room. Get dressed and head down to the kitchen for something to eat.”

I climbed out of bed and stopped. “Wait, don’t you have a group run this weekend?”

“It is at night, your friend’s visit will be during the day so we should be fine.” he gave me a quick kiss on the lips and headed toward the door. “We can talk about this weekend later.” he left the room.

I got dressed and thought maybe I should get a few more outfits from the house. I was actually looking forward to going to the house this weekend, I missed it. I even missed my cat. I was happy Sherry was there to take care of her. But for now, I am off to the kitchen. I turned out the light as I left the room.