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I’ve just witnessed something that I’ve not seen in over five hundred years, and you expect me to do what? Just shove her toward The fucking Cure? I’m not going to put her in danger.” Lucas stepped up to the warlock, and in that moment he didn’t care if he got hurt. Sandra had stepped in to save him. He’d do the same to protect her.
    “She’s all we’ve got, Lucas. I congratulate you on finding your mate, but the moment The Cure hears about her, that’s it. Her days will be numbered, and they’re going to go hunting for her. How long can we keep her safe? We’re all dying here, Lucas. There’s not much chance of us surviving this. We’re all fucked.”
    Sean’s last words hung in the air.
    “Get out,” Lucas said, pointing at the door.
    “Man, you can’t—”
    “Get out right now before I do what I promised myself I’d never do when I turned, and kill you.” Lucas had made a pact with himself to never take a life unless absolutely necessary. The only lives he’d taken were those of murderers and The Cure. He prided himself on being the kind of vampire others could rely on.
    Sean released a sigh. “We’ve got a short window here, and I hope you take it, Lucas. For all of our sakes, so that you can love your woman for many centuries to come.”
    Lucas watched the warlock storm out of the room, knowing in his heart that what he spoke was the truth. At the moment, he and Sandra only had a few weeks, months at best, and then they’d be hunted, killed, destroyed, and whatever chance of mating they once had would be over.
    “He’s worried,” Patricia said.
    “We’re all worried. He’s right. Sandra and I have no chance of being together like this. We’ll only survive if The Cure are destroyed.”
    Patricia sighed. “She’s powerful, Lucas. I’ve never witnessed a wolf turn without the heat of the full moon. If anyone could take on The Cure with us, and win, it’s her. She’s more powerful in her wolf form, and she’s stronger than just a mere wolf.”
    Lucas nodded. “Leave us, please.”
    “Okay.” He watched her move toward him and place her hand on his arm. “She loves you.”
    “I know.”
    “Sometimes the bond that mates us together may seem fragile, like it will break at a moment’s notice, but it’s not.”
    “How did you know I was worried?”
    “Anyone with a new mate worries. I’d worry.”
    The moment he took her, Sandra had hated him, and yet within the heat of the moment, they’d been mated, and she had killed for him. When the door closed, he moved toward the bed. He lay down beside his woman, touched her hand, and connected with her mind.
    Within a moment he was transported to the beach. With it being in the dream world, the sun couldn’t touch him. Not only that, if he had been in real sunlight, it wouldn’t have affected him as he had Sandra’s blood inside him.
    He saw her walking near the ocean line. The water lapped at her feet.
    “I waited for you to come,” Sandra said, looking up.
    Lucas had moved a little closer to her.
    “I’ll always come for you.”
    She smiled. “It’s why I knew you’d come. I heard what Sean said.”
    He tensed up. “I’m not going to put you at risk.”
    “We’re at risk either way. This way, we stand and fight.”
    “I can’t risk anything happening to you.”
    “With what happened tonight, if we don’t fight, I’m a dead woman anyway. They won’t risk a wolf having a lot more power than them.”
    Lucas grabbed the back of her neck, and pulled her in tight against him. “I don’t want to think about this now.”
    “You know it’s the truth. We’ve got to stand and fight together, united. Sean was right.”
    He closed his eyes, pressing his nose against her hair and inhaling her warm scent. “You didn’t see how scared you were, Sandra.”
    “A lot has happened in the last twenty-four hours. You need to cut me some slack,” she said, smiling up at him.
    “I can’t think of a reason to smile right