The Love of a Mate by Kim Dare

Author:Kim Dare [Dare, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
ISBN: 9780857155672
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2011-05-29T23:00:00+00:00

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“Did you see Alfred and Caden when they got home last night?”

Alfred stopped at the top of the stairs. The door leading into the alphas‘ bedroom was open just the tiniest crack. No doubt both men had been ‘resting’ there, the way they often did in the middle of quiet days. Or at least days that were quiet until Marsdon and Bennett’s howls of pleasure filled the air. They’d probably been in far too much of a rush to make sure the door was sealed behind them.

Marsdon laughed, a deep relaxed sound that indicated all was well in his world. “Yeah, I saw. They looked like they’d crawled out of the bottom of the river, there was that much mud on them!”

“And?” Bennett prompted.

“And who’d have thought that pretty little Caden could succeed where our big strong beta failed?” Marsdon asked, his tone still rich with humour and satisfaction.

Alfred frowned as he crept closer, careful that his shadow shouldn’t be seen by any wolf on the other side of the door.

“They do seem to be well suited,” Bennett said, his voice soft and sleepy—like a wolf who had really enjoyed his rest.

“More to the point, Caden seems to have brought the little brat to heel better than I ever hoped for.”

“Marsdon…” There was just a touch of chiding in Bennett’s tone.

“Well, someone has to. We couldn’t have let him run riot forever, pup. We can’t bring a mating pair into the pack until everything is stable, and we can’t put that off much longer, can we? Little baby wolves have to come from somewhere, you know.”

“I know, sir. I just…”

“You just want every wolf in your pack to be happy and content no matter what it takes?” Marsdon finished for him.

“Like you don’t,” Bennett replied.

Alfred could practically hear the smile in the other wolf’s voice, but he couldn’t bring a smile to his own lips in response. His frown deepened instead. He stared at the door until the sound of rustling clothing warned him that he’d be risking certain discovery if he lingered there any longer.

He’d already heard enough anyway. Turning away, Alfred quickly strode down the stairs, but the sound of his footsteps completely failed to drown out the echoes of the alphas’ words.

It almost sounded like it was all their idea—like they had been as much behind Caden approaching him as they had been instrumental in bringing Gunnar and Caden to the pack in the first place.

Alfred shook his head as his steps sped up. It wasn’t like that between him and Caden. With Gunnar it had been obvious he wasn’t really interested in being his mate, that he was just ticking the boxes of appropriate behaviour.

But Caden was different. He was only doing what he wanted to do. He wasn’t simply playing along and going through the motions because his alphas ordered him to. He couldn’t be.

Even as he wrote it off, a bitter taste filled the back of Alfred’s mouth at the possibility.

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