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his
eyes and rubbed hard. “Yeah…yeah. I’ll think about it.”
    Rudy sighed. “You’ve been thinking about it for
months now. Stop thinking about it and do it. The longer you wait, the longer
she’ll stay sick on your conscious. This is her disease, not yours. The person
who can fight it is her. If she has the will. She’s selfish now and you must
push her away, like pulling a tick off, so that she may learn to fend for
herself. That’s the only chance she has of turning her life around.”
    Grayson stood, unable to keep still. These
sessions never made him feel any better. Why the fuck did he even come? “Yeah…you
make it sound so fucking easy. If it was easy I’d already have done it.”
    Rudy crossed to him. Up close, Grayson could
see the dark brown mole above his right temple. Rudy placed a hand on his
shoulder. “Yes, but see you are stronger than her. And she needs you to be. She
needs you to make her go to rehab or push her out of your life. It’s the only
way either of you can go on with your lives.”
    “Same old story. Same old answers,” Grayson
finally said after a while.
    Grayson left without a word. Mary sputtered a
farewell and he didn’t utter a single word, couldn’t.
    He knew he was an idiot for not listening to
Rudy’s advice. He knew it. And yet, why couldn’t he go home and simply
put his mate out onto the streets? He wanted to…in a way. The bigger part of
him had always been the protector that part of him still needed to take care of
her, not shove her into danger. And that was the crux of his problem.
    But he knew, just as Rudy knew, that the only
way to get on with any semblance of life was to do the very thing he went
against—and feed his mate to the dogs.
    “Fucking hell.” Now, how was he supposed to go
about doing that?

CHAPTER 4
    “He’s not your man, you fat cow!” The insult
rang the length of the basketball court. The current crowd featuring one mad
pregnant woman, one jilted angry lover, and the man between said two women was
in the midst of a great row.
    Arabella had seen plenty of baby-daddy fights
in her day and didn’t hesitate to intervene. Plus it helped that most people in
the pack knew and respected her.
    “Hold it right there!” Arabella said nice and
loud.
    Whichever insult Amber the jilted lover was
about to spew froze at Arabella’s command. It took only one second for Amber to
realize who yelled the command and deduce that Arabella had no real power in
this situation. Which was true enough.
    Amber rolled her eyes. “Jeez, it’s just Ara.”
    Ara had to give her credit, she was one of the
few people who actually pronounced her name correctly. It was Ara pronounced
like aura not air-uh .
    “Yes, it’s me, which means this family drama is
over.”
    “Mind your own business, Bella,” said the man
at the center of it all. Jeff Gordman was known around the pack. He was
good-looking, quick smiling, and sweet with woman. He loved them and they loved
him. That’s how he came to have two lovers at once, though Ara wouldn’t doubt
if he had a few others on the side too. However nice Jeff normally was, when
his women found out about each other there was always drama. This time one of
them was big with his baby.
    “Listen, you’re at the basketball courts where
kids play. There’s even one right there, see?” Ara pointed to a mother pushing
a baby in a stroller nearby.
    Michelle, Jeff’s pregnant lover, glared a hole
at Ara. It looked like Arabella had unwittingly made herself a punching bag by
stepping into this conversation. “That’s Patty’s new baby. He’s about six
months old. I don’t think he can even see us over here. Since you seem to be
such an expert maybe you can clarify. Do babies that young see from, oh, thirty
yards away?”
    If anyone could glare well it was Arabella. She
had a heck of a glare, or so she’d been told. She put her eyes to full force on
Michelle. “I was trying to be nice about this but I can see that is no