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want this.  I have a life now.”
    “What, working at a strip club?” He raised an eyebrow.
    Rolling her shoulders back she glared at him.  “It’s not a strip club.  It’s a club were men dance.” It was totally a male strip club but she wasn’t agreeing with him. 
    *****
    Dolton was frustrated, he didn’t want his mate working with naked men.  Running his fingers through his hair he moaned.  “You need to realize I’m hanging on right now to my bear by a thread.  We’re both worried for you.  I mean last night I finished my shift and came out of my work zone when an amazing smell of hot baked honey floated through the kitchens to me.  My bear, who has been almost in hibernation lately sits up and roars at me that our mate is close.  I’m like what the fuck?  This is a group of male strippers surely my mate isn’t among them.  I’m not gay, and I didn’t want to take another man’s woman.”
    Alissa giggled and when he sighed she covered her mouth and nodded at him to continue.  “Sorry.  I’m listening.”
    “So I talk myself into going out and just checking who my mate is when I’m shocked further by seeing you.  Before I can find out what the hell you’re doing at a strip club Christmas party you friggin run.  I let you go figuring I’d find you once I figured out who my mate was.  Imagine my shock when I learn that you Alissa, the girl who confessed her love to me when she was a teenager and is now a gorgeous woman, is my mate.  One of my closest friend’s sister and she is in a window trying to escape.”
    Alissa turned bright red and avoided his gaze.  Caressing her face he tilted her chin so she gazed back at him.  Dolton leaned down brushing his lips against hers.  He’d been confused as hell when she started fighting him and didn’t want to come with him.  He’d thought she’d stopped loving him and didn’t want to be with him.  Dolton had a moment of deep regret for what he’d lost and then his bear had raged at him and he’d taken charge. 
    Dolton realized what he’d done to her years ago by letting her go could have ruined any chances he may have now.  He needed to talk to her.  To be with her in a more private place so he’d taken her to his office.  The problem was when he got to his office he didn’t want to talk he’d wanted to claim his mate.  Emotions, flooded him, and memories of he and Alissa came to him, and his need to make her his had won.
    He sighed.  “When that guy came to my office I lost any control I had on my bear.  I didn’t want to claim you like that.  I wanted it to be special.  Who is this Lucas guy to you?”
    She sat up and hugged her legs.  “He’s my roommate.  He’s a friend.  That’s it.”
    Studying Alissa he noticed her nibbling on her lip nervously.  “What type of roommate?”
    “He knows about you.”
    “I didn’t ask that.”
    “He was just a friend and a guy I shared a flat with.  He and I work at the same place.  He’s asked me out, but I turned him down every time because I’ve never gotten over you and it would be unfair to start a new relationship until I was fully over you.  I thought I was getting over you.  Ha.  I was wrong. I hate you.”
    Shit, he wanted to kill the guy.  “No you don’t.” Dolton didn’t like that Lucas lived with Alissa and he hated that Lucas had asked her out, and that Alissa thought she was getting over him and falling out of love.  She couldn’t stop loving him, he couldn’t let that happen.  She wasn’t allowed to be with anyone but him.  He’d kill any man or woman who tried to take her from him. 
    Alissa Maples was perfect for him and his bear.  She was gorgeous, stunning, with long chestnut brown hair that fell just above her arse, deep forest green eyes, a small dainty nose and full pink lips that begged to be kissed.  Her body was full, large tits that were more than both his hands could hold and he hand large hands.  Her hips flared