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“Micah, make them shut up,” he says through gritted teeth. The two pack members are whining. Henry is quiet, his eyes bouncing around the room until Daisy stops at the bottom of the stairs.

“He’s going to kill you,” Henry threatens, his eyes locking on her. My hand is around his throat in seconds, my fangs showing.

“Daisy is under my protection now. Do you think Turner is capable of killing me? That’s what he will have to do to get to her,” I snarl.

“Is she really your mate?” he chokes.

“Yes,” I hiss.

He laughs. “You think your people are going to accept a coyote?” He pushes into my hand. “Do you know the things she’s done? She is our best pickpocket,” he says gleefully.

I tilt my head, squeezing my hand. “My people are in this room.” I look over my shoulder. “Ryker, the king of vampires, will you vow to protect my mate?”

“Of course,” Ryker says easily.

“Bash, you?” I ask harshly.

“I will,” he answers.

I look back. “They are my family. Daisy is now, too. I’ll stand beside her while she steals if she needs to.”

“You're lying,” he spits.

“I don’t lie,” I deny. “Henry, I am a very old vampire who just found his mate. Do you think I would deny the gift the universe gave me because she is a certain species?”

“I won’t tell you anything,” he says, the fear becoming real as he finds the truth in my words.

“So, you have something to tell?” I try to probe a bit into his mind, but I encounter resistance. He is stronger than his packmates.

“Fuck you; you can’t make me say anything.” He shakes his head shortly.

“You don’t have to answer my questions,” I inform him. I release his neck and step back. “Daisy will be asking the questions.” I tuck Daisy’s hair behind her ear. “Ready, love?” She studies my face and then reaches into her pocket. I am shocked to see my watch in her palm as she holds it out to me.

“Sorry, I like shiny things. I’ll try to stop,” she says, smiling slightly.

“Me, too, pet,” I laugh. “I love shiny things.”

Fuck, I didn’t think my cock could get any harder.

Chapter Five

Daisy

Iwatch Micah clasp his watch back on his wrist, biting my lip. My mate is sexy. He’s tall, and I could drool if I looked at his body for more than a few minutes. He has broad shoulders, muscular arms, and an ass I want to bite.

Okay, yes, I looked. Hard.

I can’t even think about his cock. He invited me to look. What’s a girl to do? Look, obviously.

I’m having a hard time concentrating on anything but him and the heat sweeping through my body. When a female shifter meets her mate, the heat starts. The only way to calm it is to have sex with your mate or at least have him relieve it with his hand. Or mouth. Or fingers. The best way is through sex and your mate coming inside you. It is the universe's way of continuing the shifter species.

I smelled him right before his hand was around Henry’s throat. His scent confirms he is my mate. Vampires don’t technically have a smell, it’s more of a lack of smell, but thereis an underlying aura they exude. Micah has a scent to me. He smells delicious, and my coyote wants to roll over and let him do anything he wants.

The woman does, too.

I haven’t given much thought to having a mate, but now that’s all I’m doing—thinking. I thought only the lucky got a mate, and I’ve never been lucky in love or life. I learned the facts from a rabbit shifter I was friends with and Lace. I thought it was a nice dream which would never happen, except mine is now standing in front of me. That kiss. Fuck. I want to do it again and again. His hands are big. How will they feel on my skin?

I don’t care that he is a vampire or that he is way older than me. I’ll call him Daddy.

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