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Nia’s lips lift in the corners involuntarily, and her eyes flare with an interest that I know very well to be lust. Yes, she is much more like my Beren than we realized. That is more than okay. They can be angry and demanding of one another, and I will reap the rewards of being good for them both. Yes, I think this works out well for me.

I need to get Nia to finally ask for Beren’s cock so we can stop hiding how badly we would like to be with her. We do not want to scare her off before she has even made it known she might be interested. No, she will not be scared off. Not when it is so obvious that she very much wants Beren and, I am pretty sure, me as well.

“What are you filling my mate’s mind with?” Beren asks as he sets down a plate in front of each of us. I do not know which of us he thinks is corrupting the other since it very easily could go either way.

“Can I tell Lyath not to release, too?” Nia asks, her eyes lifting just in time to see Beren’s eyes shift to red. Oh, they will very much like one another.

“My mate,” Beren snaps. “He is mine. You do not say his name unless I allow it.”

Nia’s eyes narrow into small slits. “What are you going to do if I don’t care?”

Beren leans over Nia, crowding her further into her seat as he lays a hand on either side of it, trapping her between the chair and his body. Not that he is touching her because he most certainly is not doing that until she has admitted that she would like him to.

His eyes are still red, and if I were to look around the dining room, I know I would see most of the brothers watching us. All of the brothers know that Nia has been claimed by Beren and that no one is allowed to touch either of his mates. That does not mean everyone is not still very curious about what it is we all do for one another since there has never been a relationship like ours in the tribe. At least not one that any of us can remember.

“I think you need to go see if you can find a male to fill you if you are still acting this way,” Beren snaps. His words are not very loud, but the rest of the room is silent, so they are clear to everyone. “Needy and desperate for cock. It is making you act up.”

Nia’s cheeks darken, and I’m sure she’s feeling embarrassed now. Unlike Toron’s mate, she does not cry or run from the table. No, she places a hand on Beren’s face and pushes him away from her in one swift motion. He, of course, allows her to move him. He is much stronger and larger than her, and so he has to want to move if she is to move him. When he faces me for a moment, he gives me a playful wink and a small smile, but it vanishes before he’s even fully turned around.

“You know what, maybe I will,” Nia says, grabbing her plate and standing from her seat.

“Go,” Beren says with a dark, cold voice. “See who offers their services to you. I am sure you will find someone more than willing.”

Beren and I both know the only male here who she can proposition who will take her up on the offer is Beren, but she does not know this yet.

“Fuck you,” Nia bites through her clenched teeth.

Beren crosses his arms in front of his chest, his jaw ticking. I know he is grinding his teeth to keep from smiling because he is enjoying our mate like this. I am sure he, more than anything, wants to tell her that he would gladly let her fuck him if it is what she wants, but he is still waiting for her to realize she can only ask her mate to help satisfy her. Eventually, she will realize, and when she does, it will be glorious to watch her try to kill Beren for what he has done.

Nia stalks away from us, throwing her plate down next to some of the other women. Kal and Duan are close since they were chatting with Kendra and her mates. When Nia makes a choice to sit next to Kal, he very purposefully looks up at the ceiling and refuses to even look at Beren’s mate while she talks to him. I can see him nodding his head and making very minimal small talk with her, but he will do no more than that. Even Duan slips from his seat when Nia is not looking and makes his way to the opposite side of the room.

“I think she will come to me by the end of the day,” Beren says with a coolness that makes his words sound angry. His eyes are piercing Kal where he sits as though he can make the male fear him even more than he already does.

“You would think after last night she would already be asking you,” I say, grabbing my fork and beginning to eat. “Are you going to allow her to tease me as well?”

Beren slides his eyes over to me, this time letting his lips curl upward in a cruel smile that more than answers my question.

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Beren

Nia has made it clear that she has no idea that I want her in the way mates do. How she could possibly think that I would mate her and want nothing to do with her in that way is beyond me. I almost did not believe Erkoz when he first told Lyath and me that she was asking other brothers to bed her.

Now? Now, I realize that she has no idea that I think she is one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever laid my eyes on. She does not know that I lie awake wanting her body pressed against mine just as Lyath’s is. She thinks I do not see how caring, fearless, and creative she is. I am just waiting for her to ask so I can admire her in all of her beauty as mine.

“I might kill him.” I can feel the anger bubbling under my scales when Nia continues to talk to Kal.

She finished her food long ago, yet she still sits there and speaks with him. He has not once looked at her or made to move closer to her. I cannot think rationally when I know one of my mates is soliciting another for things they should only ever solicit from me. It makes me not care about how Kal is doing everything right because I still want to rip him apart.

“You will not,” Lyath says lazily as he leans his head against my shoulder. I wrap my arm around him and let him settle against me. We had plans of seeding the land today, but now that Nia has made it her goal to find a male she wishes to be inside of her, our plans have changed. “He has done everything you have asked of him.”

“He is still entertaining her,” I snap.

“He has said maybe three words the entire time.”

“Three words too many,” I grumble, my hand fists and flexes on the table.

My eyes have been red since Nia said Lyath’s name because I am a male who struggles to control his emotions when they are heightened. It is not that I mind her saying Lyath’s name. I will enjoy it very much once she is mine in all ways. It is the fact that she has only said my name in nonmatelike ways and I want her very much to say it like she said Lyath’s when she was talking about teasing him as I do.

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