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and not say anything. Lions and wolves were different. Lachlan could respect their need to get used to him, but how long would it have to take? He’d only given it a week, and it was more due to Garrett than the other wolves that he didn’t stay longer. Garrett wanted Lachlan’s total submission. To do as he said without hesitation, and Lachlan just couldn’t bring himself to do that.
    It wasn’t that Garrett was a bad mate, just a controlling one. And Lachlan had a feeling that Garrett couldn’t control his domineering ways, but it didn’t make it okay. One mate couldn’t micromanage everything the other one did. It wasn’t fair or right and would 28
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    inadvertently push the other mate away. It was sad but true, and this is what had happened to Lachlan and Garrett.
    Lachlan could feel the heat infuse in his cheeks, and his pulse started to rise with his frustration. Wanting to protect one’s mate was one thing, but to demand they give up all they’d ever known was another. Lachlan could understand the fear Garrett must feel when he would go out on missions, but Lachlan couldn’t just shut off who he was to appease his mate. The Warriors of the Light took him and his brother, Lawson, in when their family tossed them away. To leave his fellow warriors now would be a slap in the face to the family he’d created with the other men.
    Lachlan was a lion shifter, and typically all lions belonged to a pride, which is similar to a wolf pack, a large extended family that lived and hunted together. The stronger and more stable the pride, the less risk of being overtaken by another pride or another class of shifters. The paranormal world had its good and bad elements just like human society. They also had prejudice.
    His brother, Lawson, had been caught in a compromising position with another man, a human man. If it wasn’t bad enough that he was gay, he got caught floundering around with a human. The pride they belonged to didn’t like humans, thought them a mistake amongst nature.
    Lawson was immediately exiled from the pride and Lachlan followed along beside his brother. He wouldn’t allow his twin to be sent away on his own. Lachlan and Lawson were identical, but beyond that Lawson was more than just his brother. He was the other part of Lachlan’s soul. He could not and would not live without Lawson’s love and understanding and wouldn’t bestow that fate upon Lawson. They were family, and family stuck together. At least in his book they did, but obviously not his in his folks’.
    Lachlan and Lawson left that day never to return. Their mother had been saddened as he and his brother set off into the great unknown, but their father wasn’t. His father looked relieved watching Garrett’s Choice
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    them go. To have not one but two gay sons had been an embarrassment to his father. His father couldn’t even look at them as they walked away from the only home they had ever known.
    An unwanted tear escaped Lachlan’s eye, and he quickly swiped it away. Whenever he thought about the past, the emotions he didn’t want to feel bubbled to the surface and weighed him down.
    “Lachlan, is that you?”
    Lachlan turned around to see Aaron coming toward him. Aaron had been a member of the wolf pack that bordered alongside his family’s pride. Even with the prejudice from Lachlan’s pride and Aaron’s pack, they’d become good friends. When Lachlan and Lawson left that day, Aaron wanted to come with them but Lachlan told him to stay. They were young and none of them knew how to survive without family. It wasn’t until years later when Aaron’s parents died that he moved away. He didn’t want his little brother growing up with the constant reminder their parents were never coming back. He wanted Toby to have a fresh start.
    Over the years they’d stayed in contact. Aaron was the only other person besides Lawson who really knew him. There were times that Lachlan wished he and Aaron had been destined mates.