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(Jenna POV)Thirty minutes passed.Then, finally, Nick came back. I heard his voice through the door. He was talking to someone.My heart began pounding fast inside my chest.I stood up. The door opened.The other person he was talking to? She was female. Brunette. Drop-dead gorgeous.Presumably, she was also the owner of the shoes and purse that I had seen.They were both wearing casual clothes, which made sense given that they had just come back from a run.Of course, now I was a little irritated with Mrs. Tankersley. She didn’t say Nick had gone on a run WITH SOMEONE.No matter.I had a plan, and I was sticking to it.The conversation between Nick and the other she-wolf stopped the moment they saw me standing there.Nick blinked a couple of times.He stared at me.The she-wolf stared at me.I stared at both of them.“Jenna?”The she-wolf looked at Nick, clearly confused. She put her hand gently on his arm. “Nick, who is she?”I wanted to remove her hand and break it, but I

(Nick POV)“It was not green eggs and ham. It was eggs and toast.”“Whatever. Answer my question.”“Do you really want to know?”She gave me a dirty look.I chuckled.“Okay, fine. I had planned for that meeting to go a very different direction.”“Which was?”“Ideally? You underneath me, moaning my name.”Jenna’s eyes widened.“Please tell me you are joking.”I didn’t say anything.“Goddess, Nick! What kind of she-wolf did you take me for?”“Obviously I miscalculated,” I confessed. “Once I saw the mate bond between you and Danny …strained though it was… I had to improvise.”“So you asked me about green eggs and ham?!?!?”I shrugged.“Clearly it left an impression, so I still consider that a successful trip.”She rolled her eyes.“You are awful. Do you have any idea how p&ssed I was at you that day?”I leaned forward and began kissing her neck.“Feel free to punish me however you like,” I whispered against her skin.Her soft moan sounded like heaven.I ran my fingers along the he

(Danny POV)When the news broke that the Alpha King had found his queen, my first reaction was relief.That is, until I found out his queen was Jenna.I would never admit this to anyone else, but I cried the night that I found out. I also found myself screaming into the night sky at Beth, demanding that she come back to life and fix the mess that she had made of my life. Over time and the course of therapy, however, I learned to accept that Jenna was moving on. I also learned to accept …as in really accept… the part that I had played in losing her.Jenna’s mating and crowning ceremony was a huge event, and I forced myself to attend.I had been prepared for the event to be hard on me. In fact, I had even arranged to have an early-morning therapy session the next day. However, a strange thing happened instead.I found peace.Watching Jenna up on that stage with her new mate and husband …watching her dance with him during the reception… and watching her interact with him and exchang