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were meant to be mine.  The fact that you’re also a witch is a bonus.  Our pack needs a Sahri for the full moon gatherings.  Come this full moon, if you’re not by my side where you belong, what you felt tonight is only the tip of the iceberg.  Only mates can satisfy each other, Cinder.  And it goes both ways.”
    “What happened to Leo?”
    He cracked his neck before answering.  “Once we’re mated, you can resume a platonic friendship with whomever you like.  Until then, you’re not to be around any unmated males.”
    “You can’t tell me who I can be friends with,” she argued.
    His brow arched.  “Can’t I?”
    As he turned to walk toward the door, part of her wanted to call him back and ask him to stay with her.  She remembered feeling safe in his arms, and she liked that feeling.  But the rest of her, the part that felt like it was slowly being taken over by this new primal side, wanted to tell him to go to hell in the worst way.  While an internal battle raged, he opened the door and let in Cyrus and Dr. Whalen.
    “I’ll be seeing you, Cinder,” Adam said in a tone that brooked no argument.  The door clicked shut, and Cyrus rushed to her side, hugging her gently as he avoided the bandaged portion of her right arm.
    “I said you could be in here, but I’m not going to watch you manhandle my alpha’s mate,” Dr. Whalen growled, and for the first time since she’d known him, the doctor looked frazzled.
    “Not you too.”  She patted Cyrus’s hand and he let go, stepping only as far as her outstretched arm would go.  He gripped her hand tightly, his body vibrating with annoyance and barely contained anger.
    “The mate-call, Cinder, is nothing to be flippant about.  Adam recognized you immediately by your scent, and he asked me to set up a meeting so that he could introduce himself to you.  If you hadn’t run out so fast, you wouldn’t have gone into the mate-heat like you did.  Being away from your mate at first can drive you insane with need.  Don’t you know anything about your wolf heritage?”
    He fiddled with the chart and glared at her over the clipboard as though she were a wayward child.  And right then, she felt pretty damn petulant.  She didn’t need another wolf telling her what to do.  “I’m barely a wolf.  I’m almost entirely Wiccan.  Whatever I do with my friends isn’t anyone’s business but ours, so I’ll thank you very much to keep your opinions to yourself.”
    He put the chart back on the end of the bed and folded his arms.  “When you first started working for me, I would have agreed with that, Cinder.  Only on the full moon did I ever catch a scent of wolf from you, but it was always so faint and buried.  Once you started seeing the young wolf from our pack, your scent increased, slowly but steadily.  When you were out a few weeks ago because of your heat cycle, I would have been hard pressed to tell you apart from a full blooded she-wolf.  You act like one, you smell like one.  The only thing you don’t have going for you is the ability to shift.  Tell me the truth, Cinder.  Did you ever have a heat cycle like you did in September?”
    She shook her head.  It had been heaven and hell wrapped up in screaming hot sex.  The past seasonal cycles had barely affected her.  She’d always believed the wolf part of her was so small that it was of no consequence.  She relied on her Wiccan nature and never tried to nurture the wolf.  If she wasn’t going to be part of a pack, then it didn’t matter anyway.
    She felt tears sting her eyes and she looked at Dr. Whalen.  “Why now?  Shouldn’t it have happened before?”
    He sighed deeply.  “To tell you the truth, I’ve never known a true hybrid like yourself, one born of Wiccan and werewolf genes.  My best educated guess is that the reason you never truly felt your wolf is that she was waiting for her mate.  When you came here, you connected first with me, a wolf who’s part of