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(Danny POV)Beth just suggested that I spend a few nights “letting off steam” with another she-wolf.Was this her being helpful…. or manipulative? “I don’t care. Either way, it actually sounds good to me,” Mason said in a mind-link. “I miss Jenna.” He sent me a visual memory clip of Jenna naked the first time I took her.I felt myself get hard.Which made me feel even guiltier than I had been feeling before.I shook off the visual.“Beth, no. I am here because I care about you. I am going to do whatever I can to keep you alive, because you deserve to live. If I am going to f&&k anyone, it is going to be ---"I couldn’t finish the sentence. It hurt me to even imagine being intimate with anyone other than Jenna.Thankfully, I didn’t need to finish it.Beth held up her hand, looking both angry and irritated. I got the weird sense that she actually WANTED me to leave. Which hurt my ego as much as it confused me. “Don’t you dare finish that sentence. Being f&&ked out of obligat

(Jenna POV)The next five days with Danny were great —in a strangely beautiful, ordinary way.I still had to work —and he did too, if the number of times he checked his phone each day meant anything—but even so, we had a good time together.We didn’t go out in public, because although Beth knew about us, others didn’t. However, given the limited amount of time we had, I found that I didn’t resent it. Staying in felt like us starting to create our own little world, just the two of us.Danny was horrified to learn that I loved watching true-crime documentaries and court TV shows, despite doing it for a living. I was horrified to discover that he couldn’t watch any of them without asking a hundred questions —and at all the worst times. We ended up compromising and watching a lot of historical movies and documentaries.I would later find irony in that compromise. I might have then too, if I had taken the time to think about it. But I didn't.Instead, I focused on what I could contr

(Jenna POV)“How are you not jumping his a&&?” Ashley asked.“What?”“Dr. Patel. He’s young, he’s HOT, and he’s a doctor. I bet half of his patients fake cancer just to get his hands on them.”“Ashley!!!” I cried out.She ignored me.“He’s a good doctor, right, Beth?”“The best.”“I didn’t see a mark on his neck.”“I think he’s single,” Beth replied hesitantly.“Good. That’s good.”Beth and I exchanged looks.“On the hot male matrix,” Ashley continued, almost as though she was talking to herself, “his doctor status bumps him up a few steps… which then again, makes him that much more likely to be an a&&hole… but who cares if he makes it worth your while.” She turned back to Beth.“So, Beth, I ask again, why aren’t you humping him?”Beth’s jaw dropped. She wasn’t used to Ashley.I only barely was.Ashley took Beth’s silence as confirmation.“Oh my goddess! You ARE humping him, aren’t you?” Ashley exclaimed. She had the excitement of a schoolgirl who had just stumbled on the worl

(Danny POV)The Moon Goddess had blessed me with two very different mates.Logically, I knew that made me lucky.However, in my heart of hearts, it felt more like punishment.Both of my mates were dying. One, physically. The other, emotionally.And both at my hands.I wanted desperately to fix this situation and make things better for both of them. I just didn’t know how.In the back of my mind, I heard my grandfather’s voice telling me that –whenever I wasn’t sure what to do—I should focus on doing the right thing. The problem was that I didn’t know what that was.I loved Jenna. That part was clear.But other things that should have been simple just weren’t anymore. Since Beth returned, I had bent the rules in certain ways, and I was now stuck seeing them through. The consequences, if I didn’t, would be catastrophic.And now I learned that Beth would need to stay with us much, much longer than we had ever expected. That reality sent everything else into chaos. Soon after Jen

CHAPTER 59 – MOVING IN (Jenna POV)“As your friend, I want you to know that I do not support this.”I rolled my eyes.“Yes, Ashley, I know that already.”And I did. She had been raising objections to the move-in-with-Danny-and-Beth plan since I told her about it.“Then why are you doing it?”I sighed and handed her another heavy box. She was currently helping me unpack while Danny helped Beth get settled on the other side of the duplex.“What else could I do?”“Claw Beth’s heart out? Tattoo your name to Danny’s forehead? Mark the guy?”“All viable options,” I admitted. All but the marking at least, which Danny was still insisting we wait on until after Beth was better. He was worried that marking one another would cut off any healing properties for Beth.I understood his position …really, I did… but it also hurt. It felt like a part of him was keeping the possibility of re-mating with her alive.Which technically was the point, I suppose.And why it hurt.“I think you should