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want to, and I’d never dream of such a thing, but think on it. That’s all I can ask.”
    It was a lot to take in. Her mother was, in essence, asking her to abandon the life she knew just to help a wolf that needed a new lease on life. She didn’t know the man, and discovering that there were children in the equation didn’t make her any less nervous. She didn’t even like children. She was the woman who glared daggers at negligent women in grocery stores because they couldn’t get their kids to shut up.
    And now, she’d be, for all intents and purposes, stepmother to two of them. Christ, she thought, this would take an eternity of thinking.
    Pulling her hand gently from her mother’s grip, Angeline stood, trying to hide the tremor in her fingers. “Mom, I…I’m going to need some time.”
    “Of course, darling. I understand.” Standing, Madeline moved to the fridge to pour herself a glass of milk. She drank the cool liquid slowly before she spoke again. “You know…I’ve always been very picky. Part of me thought I would never encounter a wolf that I thought would be right for my Angeline.”
    It would take some more convincing for Angeline. This was her life she was talking about. She would have to leave everything and everyone she had ever cared for an indefinite length of time. She couldn’t. It was impossible. Then why, for the love of God, she questioned herself, had those piercing silver eyes haunted her all day long?
     
     

CHAPTER THREE
     
              He was nervous. Standing outside the cabin he shared with his boys, Clyde stared at the bike before him, losing himself in the sheen of the chrome. Over two weeks ago he had gone to visit Madeline. He would describe their visit not as a discussion over a potential mate, but more reasoning as to why mating with a human girl would have no merits for the girl herself.
    He hadn’t talked himself up to the older woman, hadn’t bragged about how fast he was or how well he could provide for his new mate. Clyde had his hands full providing for his own sons. Lex always made sure that their pantry was well stocked, and, in return, he lent his guidance and strength to the younger Alpha. In the truest sense of the term, they governed side by side, as two halves of one whole.
    Clyde was feeling rather like half of a convoluted mess at this point. Elias was under the equivalent of house arrest after attempting another stunt that put his life in jeopardy. Whereas, Ian, one of the most docile pups under most circumstances, had been reprimanded by his tutor for trying to start a fight with another boy. The child said that the pup had said something about his mother, and so, he had jumped on him without seeing, fists flying.
    Christ, he thought, it seemed things grew more and more out of proportion every day. Around him, the settlement was thriving. More than twenty males had all found human mates and they, along with Lex, were populating their pack with stronger, healthier pups. Beyond that, the males seemed genuinely happy. Their human females brought along news and stories of the outside world with which they interacted with fairly little. They provided invaluable knowledge if they were to pass into the new age efficiently.
    It was only he himself who that seemed to be dragged down by his current misfortune. And now, something else had been added to his overstuffed plate: Madeline had called to reveal she’d found a mate for him. Clyde couldn’t lie, when he’d first heard the words his heart had inexplicably leaped.. The emotion made him feel no small amount of guilt over Leila’s memory, and he had stemmed it quickly. The woman hadn’t said much about his prospective mate, only that she’d like him to come back down as soon as possible to speak with the girl.
    So here he was, with two rebellious sons in the house, off to meet a human woman who would, more than likely, only complicate things further. He wasn’t looking for pups, he didn’t have