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“I’m…coming. I’m…please.” Her head fell back against him.

He growled loudly as he let go and bit down on her shoulder. Sandy screamed and quivered around him.

“Jake.” Her head fell forward, and he felt her legs tremble.

He emptied himself into her, groaning against her shoulder. They fell forward, and he nuzzled her neck. “You okay, Little Red? I wasn’t too rough?”

“Mmmm, you need to let go more often.”

He chuckled and held her tighter, knowing he was the luckiest man in the world.

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For the last two weeks she’d been working at Zack’s shop and loving it. The variety of people they got in was awesome. Everyone was on alert for the shifter killer, and no one was ever left alone. Zack and Jake were driving here crazy, and to piss her off more, her brothers and father agreed with them.

Looking up from the phone, she noticed an elegantly dressed lady tapping her manicured fingernails on the desk. Smiling at her, she said to the contractor on the phone, “Could you give me a moment?” She waited for the okay before she placed the phone down and spoke to the woman in front of her. “Hello. May I help you?”

The lady’s eyes narrowed, and she looked at her over the table. “You’re not much. You’re not what I expected at all. I have no idea how you can handle two of the Bear men.”

Sandy’s back stiffened as she figured out who stood in front of her. She stood up and looked the lady up and down just like she’d done. “Well, you’re exactly what I expected. If you wait here a moment, I will tell him you’re here.”

She made sure her back was straight as she walked to the back booth where a pretty blonde gazed up at Zack as he tattooed a unicorn just under her underwear line. She waited for Zack to stop and look up.

“I know she’s here. I heard her. Give me another fifteen here, and I will be there to see what she wants.”

She nodded and looked at the girl who hadn’t taken her eyes off Zack.Great. This is what I have to put up with.She studied the tat. “That is beautiful.”

The girl finally looked up at her. “Yeah, Zack’s the best. He did my first ever tattoo last year on my ass.”

She shot a glance at Zack to see if he showed any recognition of the woman, but he showed no interest in the pretty blonde that she could see. To be on the safe side, she leaned down and kissed his cheek. “Love you.”

He chuckled, and his eyes lit up.Crap. He knows I’m jealous.

Taking a deep breath, she went back out to Zack’s mother. “Take a seat. He’ll be with you in fifteen.”

Sandy watched as Zack’s mother looked around the shop and sat on the seat closest to her. His mother sat quietly for a good ten minutes while she worked on the computer organizing schedules for all the artists.

“What drawings are my son’s?”

Sandy grabbed Zack’s folder and walked around to pass it to her. As soon as she was close enough to hand it his mother, the woman took a deep breath in only to screech, drop the book, and stand to tower over her.

“He mated you. I thought he was joking when he said he had.” His mother yanked at her shirt, ripping it off her shoulder. She growled and started to grow. “He is not your only mate. Who else?” The woman shook her, picked her up, and breathed her in, only to shriek and drop her against the book table. “Who is it? Because you are pregnant.”

Sandy felt the color drain from her face and scrambled back against the reception desk. Zack and all the other artists came running to her aid.

Zack snarled at his mother and dropped down beside her. “Firebird, are you okay?”

Sandy had no idea if she was okay, but she nodded anyway.

Zack yelled, “Call an ambulance.”

She grabbed his arm. “No, please don’t. I’m fine.” She tried to get up, but he wouldn’t let her.

Zack patted her down, and she told him she was okay. He carefully picked her up, cradling her in his arms, and turned on his mother.

“Get out of my shop now. I don’t ever want to see or hear from you again. This is the last straw. I disown you.”

Sandy gasped and looked at Zack’s mother who turned white and shook her head.

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