Jane

Ethan winces, then kisses me again, long and deep. When he pulls away, I feel tears in my eyes. I already know he hasn’t been swayed by my pleading. “I know it hurts right now, Jane.” He acknowledges, looking truly aggrieved. “It hurts me too. But one day you’ll see that I’m right.” His thumb brushes a stray tear from my cheek. “You were so much better off without me. You built a fragrance empire and raised three amazing pups all by yourself. But a few months with me and you were on my floor, begging to be a slave again.”

“That wasn’t because I was with you, it was because I wasn’t!”I argue fiercely.

“It was because of what I did to you!” Ethan explodes, his wolf glowing in his eyes. “I took a strong, independent woman with the world at her feet, and turned her into a hopeless, broken shell of a person without dignity or a single shred of self worth.

“You took a woman who had been going through the motions for years, how to actually live again.” I correct him. “Which is why I was so devastated when I lost you. You taught me how to trust again

“And then I smashed it into pieces!” Ethan reminds me, clamping his eyes shut and pursing his lips. “Listen Jane, I know this isn’t what you want and believe me when I say that I wish things could be different,” He sighs. “But they can’t. I promised myself I would never put you at risk again, and being with me has done nothing but break your heart and crush your soul time and again I have to take responsibility for that, and that means protecting you from myself even and especially when you dont want me to.”

My tears are falling freely now, and I’m clinging to Ethan as he rubs my back. “You’re wrong. I’m not going to give up, I’m not going to let you get away with this I hiccup, “And you can’t marry Nina.” I assert inanely. “You’re my mate. She can’t have you.

Ethan purrs, and I want to lash out at him for comforting me. “I don’t want to fight, Janey. The Writing is on the wall.” He nuzzles my neck. “Let’s just be together this one last time. Let me hold you, let me kiss you and watch over you while you rest” He suggests, stealing another deep kiss from my tear-stained lips. “And when you wake up we’ll start fresh. This is a new beginning for both of us it doesn’t have to be sad”

“But it is sad.”I insist sullenly. “And there’s nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. This isn’t right”

“shhh,” Ethan croons, stroking my hair. “it will all seem better in the morning.”

“That’s stupid” I sniffle. “It’s already morning.

He chuckles, pressing his lips to my temple in quick succession. “You know what I mean.”

closer, deciding that even if Ethan can’t be reasoned with right now, I might as well get a few cuddles out of this while the

time that he’ll allow me to be affectionate with him this

you?”

Ethan encourages, gazing down at me with

how he managed to stay in Such amazing shape while he was paralyzed. “Now

thoughtfully. “That is a dilemma. I suppose I’ll just have to kiss you until

the smile that stretches across my

overwrought body. I slip from Ethan’s bed, not wanting to be there when he wakes. He’s only going to send me away, and I need some

dark. Now I have to find a way to beat him at his own game, and I don’t have much time at all. My only advantage is that Ethan wasn’t

the on-site childcare center, they’re just waking from their own naps. I eagerly pull them into a hug, feeling a familiar spark of emotion reignite in my chest. “Hello

missed you!” Riley

Paisley

confess, trading out my girls for Parker

all at once, and I miss the days when I could fit all my pups in my arms at once. But we’ re not going to let him get away with it,

light in his eyes. “Are

scheme? Ryder adds in an

grinning at the excited pups. “That’s

play tricks or hatch

any kind of menace. Still, Riley is easily the most devious of my pups, and I want to both encourage her cunning and ensure that she only uses her powers for good. “We’re

of his ways?”

that took him down the wrong path 1explai “And in Daddy’s case that’s

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