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Sick of the questions and desperate to get out, she snapped, “None of your business. Just let me go.”

He grinned and she could see sharp white teeth as his mouth turned up at the corners.

“Sweetheart, everything you do is my business because you are my mate.”

Holy shit, she could have been knocked over with a feather. “I can’t be.”

He pulled her closer to him and took a deep a breath. “Yes, you are. You smell like heaven, honey, mangos…and my brother.” His eyebrows drew together as he finished, and his smile turned into a frown as he leaned into her and took a deep breath.

Groaning, she pushed at his chest only to stop when she heard, “Blake, get your fucking hands off my mate.”

She turned in Blake’s arms to see Brian stalking their way. Fucking hell, she had a feeling things were about to get a million times more crazy than she could even dream of.

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Blake glared at his brother and pulled Susie tighter to him. “What the hell is going on, Brian?”

His brother snarled, and went to grab Susie, so he moved her behind him, all the while keeping a gentle grip on her, so she didn’t run off like she seemed to be doing now to his brother.

“Blake, hand her over, she’s mine.”

Usually the easy-going brother, Blake never snarled or got grumpy like his brother, but now he growled. “She can’t be because she’s mine.”

He heard a groan against his back and turned to see Susie, whose face was brighter than a tomato as she moaned, “Please, can you take this somewhere private?”

Turning back to his brother, he looked around to notice quite a large sized crowd surrounded them.

Letting go of Susie as he saw the embarrassment on her face, he sighed and reluctantly followed his brother to their office, ignoring his bear that yelled at him,take mate, cover mate in our scent. Mate our mate. Once at the stairs, he turned to let Susie up before him, only to stop when she was nowhere to be seen. “What the hell did you do to her, Brian? You’ve scared her off.”

Brian scowled at him and dragged him up the stairs to the office, closed the door, and turned on him. “Why do you think it’s me, Blake? Maybe you scared her off, and that’s why she didn’t follow us.”

“Really. My mate is running out of our gym like her life depends on it, and she smells like you and somehow I did it. I hadn’t even met her before I caught her, and stopped her getaway.” Blake raised his eyebrow at Brian.

“My mate?” Blake rolled his eyes at Brian’s comment and waited for his brother to acknowledge the situation properly. Brian grunted. “Fine, our mate, and you didn’t scare her off. I did. Well, so did Tayler.”

“I don’t know if I really want to know what happened, because Tayler is a sweet teenager who has crushed on you for years. What on earth did you do to her and Susie?”

A moan slipped from his brother. “I met Susie yesterday. She joined the gym to lose weight.”

Blake growled at his brother. He loved women with a bit of meat on their bones, but Brian only went for stick figures. “It’s not as bad as you’re thinking,” Brian said.

“Really? Because I didn’t know you could read my mind now.” Brian snarled at him. “Look, Brian, just tell me. Did you tell her she was too fat for you, or she needed to lose loads of weight?” He watched his brother wince before he moaned.

“Not in those precise words,” Brian said. For the first time Blake could ever remember his brother looked truly sorry. His shoulders were hunched, he had black circles under his eyes like he hadn’t slept, and he could tell his brother had been fighting and he was still healing, but he didn’t care.

Blake lunged for his brother as Brian held up his hands and continued, “It’s been twenty-four hours since I first met Susie. I have jacked off until my cock is blue, and I am still rock hard. I’ve tried fighting and even that didn’t work. So, when she came in this afternoon, I, um, jumped her and had the most mind-blowing sex of my life. I stuffed it up when she figured out I’m not human. I might have said something about how I never usually would be attracted to her instantly, and she’s not my usual type as I only date models or women who could model… Oh, and I kinda said she smelled, but I fixed that, I think.”

Blake stared at his brother, looking for any signs he was joking. When he saw none, he punched Brian in the face, letting all his frustration out on him. “Please tell me you didn’t have sex with her while Tayler was here.”

Brian groaned and touched his nose. “You have sex in here all the time. How was I to know Tayler’s little crush made her so possessive of me she would scare my mate off, big brother? I just thought it was a silly teenage crush. I didn’t think she’d chase after Susie and scare her.”

Blake wanted to smack his brother again, but he didn’t because he was usually the idiot. He didn’t act like the older brother much. There wasn’t a huge gap with only two years separating them. Blake was the happy-go-lucky bachelor, or he had been until minutes ago when he caught a curvy, sassy little brunette.

Walking over to the computer, he signed in and typed Susie’s name and all her info popped up. Glancing at his brother, he grabbed paper a pen and wrote down her address. “Here is what we are going to do. You are going to go sort out Tayler and make sure our sister doesn’t get wind of this, as Matty is still sick. I’m going to go around to Susie’s and see if I can fix the mess you have made. I will give you a call and you can come over, but only when I give the all clear.”

“I don’t know, Blake. I think I need to go clear up everything with Susie.”

Not in the mood to argue with his brother, Blake shook his head and ran for the door, hoping his Brian hadn’t ruined their chances altogether.

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