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her opinion. She kept telling herself it was silly to be reacting the way she was, but she just couldn’t shake the fear. And of course that niggling doubt of her own worth as a woman reared its ugly head, and she once again found herself wondering if her husbands would be better off without her as their wife. What if it happened again? What if she was never able to give them children? Maybe if she got out of the way, they could find several wives between them and have a whole houseful of kids within a couple years.
    “I should let them go,” she said, shaking her head sadly, “but I’m such a coward. I don’t want to live without them.” She whispered the words even as she meant to hide the thoughts.
    “No,” Tracey said, sounding horrified. “You love those men, and they love you.” Tracey glanced at the closed door, and Mikayla found herself kind of hoping that her men were listening. Maybe if they knew she was willing to step aside, they’d take the hard steps for her.
    “You listen to me Mikayla Davidson,” Tracey said angrily. “Not one of those men will ever look to replace you. They love you with everything in them. I may not have met Bryce face-to-face, but if he’s as much like Matt as you’ve told me, he’ll never let you go either. You’re it. You’re the one for all of them.” She took a deep breath, grabbed both of Mikayla’s hands, and squeezed reassuringly. “They will love you until the end of time whether you stay with them or not. Don’t you dare go doing something stupid out of misdirected loyalty. All you will do is make yourself and eight wonderful men miserable.”
    Mikayla nodded. Her heart squeezed at the thought of hurting her guys, but she worried that she’d never find the courage to try to become pregnant again. She feared that years into the future, when they were old and gray and there weren’t any Davidson children to carry on the family name, her husbands would grow to resent her.
    “John is renegotiating the mining survey contract, so we’ll see what happens before I make any firm decisions.”
    Tracey still looked worried, but she nodded once as if she sensed Mikayla couldn’t take much more and then changed the subject.
    They spent some time talking about day to day stuff, catching up on each other’s lives. By the time Mikayla finished telling Tracey about the mating musk of the mouse tears and the interesting effects it had on the human male population, they were practically giggling like a couple of schoolgirls.
    “Thank God we landed on the planet at the beginning of mating season. The stuff seems far more potent now.”
    Tracey waggled her eyebrows suggestively, and Mikayla laughed again. “Ah, no. If it’s potent enough to have raiders rubbing against trees, I don’t even want to think about what eight husbands would be up for.”
    They giggled again at Mikayla’s double entendre. A moment later, Rick came through the front door. He was dressed in his police uniform and smiling widely. “That,” he said as he stepped toward Tracey, “is a very lovely sound to come home to.” Rick kissed his wife tenderly and then turned to Mikayla with a broad smile. “So did you get out without your husbands, or are they lurking on the other side of the door?”
    “Other side of the door,” Mikayla said, feeling happier than she had in months. Things weren’t perfect, and she still had a lot of emotions to work through, but at least she had a clearer outlook. How could she have forgotten how much her husbands loved her?

Chapter Four

    “Shit, get Mikayla out of here.” John’s whispered order had Brock going immediately to red alert. They were in the middle of New York standing out the front of their lawyer’s offices. What the hell could be so dangerous? “That’s Peter’s ex,” John growled as he moved to intercept the woman. She’d spotted Mikayla and was marching in her direction.
    Brock grabbed Mikayla, turned her around, and headed into the