"Before I answer that," I said, "I need you to hear something first."Ethan was still in the doorway. He didn't move. He just waited — and I was noticing, more than I wanted to, how much he had learned to do that in the weeks since I had arrived back in his territory."Sit down," I said.He came in and sat in the chair across from my desk. Not his chair — mine. I was still the primary medical authority on a Lycan council investigation, and this was still my temporary office and those facts were going to stay true for the duration of this conversation, regardless of everything else that was also true about us.I closed the documentation I had been working on. I put my pen down. I looked at him."My terms," I said. "Not negotiable, not open for discussion. If any of them are a problem, the answer to your question is no, and this conversation ends here."He didn't say anything. He just looked at me with the careful expression he had been wearing since the confession — the one that was do
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