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circled around,
    and in general, seemed to  be testing out his new limits.

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    Blasius watched him for a moment. The wolf was always the one that had the most control for the first few transformations, but could it
    somehow be possible that Rhyan’s mind, his former one anyway, was  still deeply buried in  there?
    Could that be what would cause an alpha wolf to fear the presence  of other alphas? Rhyan had been killed by werewolves in his former  life, quite savagely, in fact.
    Of the few memories Blasius had taken with him of his former
    life, that day had been  one of them, and he would never forget it.
    Finally, Rhyan looked up at him, gray head cocking to the side.
    Blasius was most pleased when Rhyan came to him of his own  free will and then began sniffing at him. Blasius allowed him to,  knowing his scent would  calm the other wolf.
    Finally, he yipped at his mate and ran toward the tree line that  surrounded the houses of James’s pack. Rhyan waited a beat and then  took the hint and followed him into the trees to run and play.

    32                            Marcy Jacks

    Chapter Four
    Corey stirred the sugar in his coffee, but mostly he just stared down at his reflection in the dark liquid. “Would you really have killed him?”
    James sighed quietly and pulled out the chair next to him, taking a seat. Corey looked at him, and the scarred face of his lover, his mate, was saddened.
    “Yes,” he replied.
    Corey looked away from him and back down into his coffee.
    “I wouldn’t’ve wanted to do it,” James said quickly, seeming to  take the movement as a sort of dismissal. “If he’d gone wild, there  wouldn’t have been any choice. You’ve seen what wild werewolves  do when they have some control over themselves. That guy wouldn’t  have had any.”
    “I nearly went wild,” Corey reminded him.
    “That’s … ” James ran his hand through his hair. “That’s
    different.”
    “Because I’m mated to you?”
    “Yes, and no.”
    Corey looked at him, not understanding at all. He knew things like  this happened within a pack of wolves, but in the months that he’d  lived here and been a werewolf himself, he’d been fortunate in that  he’d never had to see or experience any of the harder decisions that  had to be made for the survival of the pack.
    “I would’ve protected you even if you had gone on a rampage.  Even if you’d run into Brampton and started eating people alive, I  wouldn’t have let anyone hurt you.

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    “It wouldn’t have come to that anyway,” James continued. “You  only fought your transformation for a couple of days, and that was  bad enough. That guy downstairs, Detective Miller, he was struggling  against his new instincts for weeks. If you had gone wild, I would  have been able to restrain you until you calmed down. If he had lost  it, there was no telling what he could’ve done.”
    Which meant that the man downstairs had been extremely lucky  that he’d finally allowed himself to properly mate with Blasius.
    Corey could still recall the feelings of being sick, of struggling  with the thing inside of him because it wanted out so badly, but he  had neither the knowledge nor the courage to let it out.
    For him, mating with James had helped. There was something  about fully bonding with  a mate that allowed the inner wolf to calm  down enough to prevent it from tearing its way out of the host. The  same seemed to be true for Blasius and his mate.
    James reached out and then seemed to hesitate before he put his hand on Corey’s shoulder. “I wish I could keep these things from happening, but for werewolves, there are no laws that we can follow except for the ones we made. There’s no system of justice for us unless we make it ourselves.”
    Corey knew that, and he knew