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blonde hair and long legs.  He’d spent more full moon nights with her than he cared to remember.
    He undid the button and zipper of his jeans and said, “No thanks.”
    For a moment, her smiling face slipped into a frown, but then she licked her lips and dropped to her knees on the step below him and reached for the waistband of his jeans.  “I don’t mind.  I fantasized about you all month long and couldn’t wait to get here tonight to see you.”  She tugged on his jeans and they slid down a fraction.  “To touch you.  To make you happy.”
    He brushed her hands away.  “You should go shift with your friends and hunt, Talia.  I won’t be needing you tonight.”
    She gaped at him, her eyes wide.  Outrage slid over her features, but she quickly smiled and eased away from the step until she was standing.  “If I’ve offended you, I’m sorry.”
    “You didn’t.”
    She turned and walked away, swinging her hips exaggeratedly.
    “What did you ever see in her?”  Melanie, Auro’s mate, asked as she stood next to Auro with their folded clothes in her hands.
    Auro shushed her gently and Melanie rolled her eyes.  “I think it’s okay for me to ask a question of our alpha on our last full moon, Auro.  Don’t be such a baby.”
    Acksel chuckled.  He had always liked Melanie and thought of her as a good match for Auro.  She didn’t take any of his shit.
    “She’s pretty,” Acksel offered lamely.
    “She’s a big plastic bitch.  Half the unmated females are scared to death of you and the other half just want to get into your bed so they can be queen bitch.”
    “Scared?” he asked.
    Melanie shrugged.  “You’ve got a reputation for not taking any shit from anyone, Acksel.  You’ve never been in a serious relationship, and you bounce from she-wolf to she-wolf each month.  The females that are worthwhile are afraid you wouldn’t be able to handle a relationship without straying, and the females that aren’t worth a shit wouldn’t care one way or the other.”
    Auro groaned and Acksel frowned.  “In other words, you’re saying I’m screwed with the females in the pack and should look elsewhere.”
    “Pretty much.  For what it’s worth, Acksel, I know that you’re a male of worth and you’d never cheat on a female you took to mate.  But that’s because I know you have too much character to be unfaithful.”
    Acksel appreciated her candor.  And she was right at any rate.  Half the unmated females would only come to his bed if he asked them, the other half pursued him with a passion that he found aggravating.  His thoughts turned to Brynn.  What was she doing?  Who was she with?
    “I’m sorry,” Auro said warily.
    “For what?”  Acksel asked, shaking the dark thoughts away.
    “You’re growling.  I’m sorry for what Melanie said.”
    “No it’s okay.  I was just thinking.”  Acksel shook his head and sat down on the top step.  “I need a new fucking council.”
    Auro asked.  “Have you thought about bringing back the old guard?”
    The old guard, as the pack referred to them, were the seven members of the council of the previous alpha, including his own father, Dade.  Acksel hadn’t wanted anything that reminded him of the old alpha hanging around, and it was well within his rights as alpha to choose who was in the council.  The former alpha had made the council separate from his highly ranked males, choosing those with wisdom and age.  Acksel had taken the top six ranked males from his pack and used them as the council.  He had confided in them, and it had completely bitten him in the ass.
    When Acksel remained silent, Auro said, “You got rid of them because you thought they might be loyal to Willis.  But if they were, they would have left with him when they had the opportunity.  None of them are against wolves mating with humans, plus your dad is a good guy.  The alpha has always had a council outside of the high-ranked.  Changing pack law means