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finish. Oh who knew meat could taste so good? After the last swallow, she sighed. “Okay, shoot.”
    Kara rubbed her hands together contemplating the first question. “What were you doing in the woods, and those bruises, what happened? Why did you decide to get bit? And what’s up with your scent? It’s all wrong . . . and.” She clarified at Sadie’s frown. “Oh goddess, I didn’t mean it like that. It’s only that the smell is . . . incomplete. I’ve never smelled a partial mating scent before, but I like yours.” Inhaling, raising both eyebrows she said, “Honeysuckles.” Transitioning to a look of concern, she added, “It’s the iron, oil, and Eridon’s fading scent trying to strangle your floral undertone, that’s off.”
    “Oh.” She sighed, relieved that Kara didn’t in fact find her smell offensive. “Umm, do you want the long version?” While taking a deep breath in preparation, Domek’s earthy scent invaded her nose. Sadie’s heart skipped a beat, excited to be near him again.
    “Ugh, dammit, Dom, I was about to get the scoop!” Kara yelled when her door swung open.
    Domek didn’t give a rat’s ass if he’d inconvenienced Kara by entering. The alpha had every right to come and go as he pleased, but while opening his mouth to tell her so, he smelled it again. Sadie’s honeysuckle scent had kicked up a notch. Damn, Domek wanted to roll in that scent, smother and destroy Eridon’s stench from her being, so he could hold just the new wolf’s sweetness with him at all times.
    Pushing his focus past the beta’s disobedient mate toward the honeysuckle’s direction, Dom’s knees buckled briefly, like someone hit him over the head. He found himself struck dumb for a moment. Lovely when he first found her, she almost glowed now. Her rosy cheeks, already fuller, blushed beautifully. Perfect lips formed a little pout, which she gave a nervous lick. No longer sunken, her hazel eyes sparkled beneath long lashes. They swept down toward high cheekbones when he turned his focus to her eyes.
    Dom paused at the large bruise covering her jaw, the one that caused him the most anger, knowing the force required to leave it. The area had healed for the most part. Sadie’s hair, still in tangles, would be a shiny fall of chestnut once brushed through. It took all of his control to hold himself in place; the urge to collect the softer strands growing stronger. Now that she’d eaten, the worst physical damage had healed.
    Domek spoke at Kara, while continuing to study Sadie. “I was passing by and smelled steaks. I knew my new pack member must have woken up, and I needed to check in.”
    He failed to state that he had been walking back and forth just outside their range of scent for hours now, waiting on her to come to. After cleaning the new werewolf up, Dom had gone home planning to do the same then turning in for the night. However, sleep evaded him as his mind kept returning to her. Domek worried that no one familiar would be there when she woke, leaving Sadie scared and alone in this new place.
    “Oh give it a rest.” Kara sighed, getting the cups of tea from the kitchen. “You know perfectly well that you weren’t ‘just passing by’.” She came out to hand Sadie tea, sitting back down with her own cup.
    “Not going to offer your alpha any tea, are you? Your respect is overwhelming,” Domek stated, sitting next to Sadie.
    The cushion shifted when Sadie moved to get up. He stopped her by placing a hand on her knee.
    “No, I need you to rest. Kara enjoys being obstinate just for the sake of it. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think she keeps trying to prove she’s as beta as her mate.” He turned a stern look to Kara. “However, she fails to remember that, like her mate, she is still below alpha.”
    “Fine!” Kara got back up, stomping to the kitchen. “I was hopeful you’d get your own, so I could finish getting the inside story from her. She’s all quiet now that you’re