Drake took two months to absorb the new territories.I spent those two months on the border, moving units, signing off on reconstruction, handling the small packs that had been under Creed's boot and were now under Drake's protection.Kieran was with me most of it.He didn't try to stand at the front of anything. He worked. He asked questions. He deferred to me on military calls and made his own on everything pack-side. When I corrected him, he took it without flinching. When I was wrong, he said so.It was the opposite of what I'd had before.One night after a long day of boundary surveys, we were in the camp tent going over the day's reports. He set his pen down."Nora."I looked up."I've been trying to find the right moment to say this for about a year. I don't think there's a right moment."I waited."I want you to stay. Not as Beta. As my mate."I set my own pen down."Kieran.""I know what you've been through. I'm not asking you to love me the way you loved him. I'm asking you t
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