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    “Is that an order or a friendly request?”  He smirked.  Why the hell was he so moody today?  Before he could think on it further, a hand clapped down on his shoulder.
    “Consider it a friendly request to start, brother,” Jason said with a low voice.
    “Fine.  I give up.”  He put his hands up in surrender and waited for Jason to take the vise-like grip off his shoulder.  Cadence beamed at Jason, and Jason moved over and kissed her and then sat down next to her.
    “Fritz has asked to leave the pack,” Jason said after taking a drink of coffee.
    “What?” Michael said, stunned.
    “Yeah.  Jazlyn and her brothers don’t want to join the pack.  Fritz asked to go rogue so he could be with them on the full moon, too.  He’s going to keep working for the garage, and they’re going to keep playing at the bar.  When those brothers of hers get mated, they’re going to be a pack for all intents and purposes.  His house is outside of Allen, so territory isn’t a problem.  I guess they’ve all been living together for the last week.”
    “Seems fast,” he mused, even as jealousy streaked through him.
    Jason shrugged.  “It doesn’t have to be slow to be right.  Look at Linus and Karly. She knew right away that they were mates because it was her destiny.  He spent a whole day freaking out about why he wanted her so badly until he realized that she was meant to be his truemate.  Fritz said that the first night, his wolf was so loud in his head that he couldn’t even consider that he hadn’t met his mate.  It just felt right.”
    “But sometimes wolves don’t find a truemate, right?” Cadence asked.
    “Sure, if they don’t feel connected to a wolf in their home pack and they don’t move on and expand their horizons.  There’s nothing wrong with settling down with someone that you love and having a family while knowing that they aren’t really your truemate.  Some of the couples in our pack did that, but many of them found their truemate,” Jason answered, playing his finger around the edge of the coffee mug.
    “Wouldn’t your wolf bother you if you settled?”  She swiped her finger through the syrup left behind on the plate and popped it into her mouth.
    Their father, Peter, spoke up.  “Did Jake and Renee seem happy?”
    She blinked in confusion.
    He smiled endearingly.  “Jake’s truemate was a woman from another pack down south.  They met in high school during a full moon gathering of several packs.  At the time, Jake’s grandfather was alpha of the Garra Pack, and Jake’s father had taken off to start his own pack.  The she-wolf had been given away to another pack’s alpha to solidify an alliance.  Jake protested to the alpha on her behalf, but he wouldn’t release her from the agreement.  Jake offered to fight for her, but she didn’t want to disappoint her family even though she admitted they were meant to be mates.  So he knew his truemate was out there, but he and his wolf pretty much resigned themselves to the loss.  He fell in love with Renee eventually, and I never doubted that he loved her as much as he could.  He told me once that there were times when he ached for that connection, but that he never regretted his life with Renee.”
    “That would suck,” Cadence said finally.
    They all agreed.
    Later that morning, a large group of them drove an hour north to the fairgrounds. His parents, Cadence and Jason, Linus and Karly with their baby boy Remy, Linus’ mom and grandparents, and Bo walked around the large fair.  For the better part of the day, they took their time wandering around the big tents filled with booths, and he and Bo were tasked with running purchases out to the parking lot.
    Linus and Karly left after they ate a greasy dinner of everything fried they could get their hands on.  Little Remy, born in April, was a good baby, but he’d had his fill of crowds, apparently, and so had Karly.  It was heartwarming for Michael to see his