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“Did you text Daniel?”Irwin cut into the conversation as he rolled from on top of me yawning.

“Yep,” Marcus called from the sitting room of the suite. “Faran’s still asleep. Daniel was making rounds. The war’s over but not really.”

“Did something happen?” Irwin yawned.

“No,” Marcus appeared in the doorway, pulling his white t-shirt off over his head. “The memories will live on for quite a while. The war’s not over until that’s over and it won’t be over for everyone at the same time.”

“Marcus?” Irwin said.

“Yes, mate?” Marcus grinned.

“Don’t kill my head this early in the morning with talking in therapy circles,” he groaned.

“Sorry, love,” Marcus grinned and bent over the bed to kiss him on the forehead.

“I’ll forgive you. This time,” Irwin smirked. “I know it’s serious, but we have to take a break sometimes.”

“I know,” Marcus said, leaning over Irwin to kiss my forehead.

I let him, but grabbed his arm and gave him a real good morning kiss. He smelled like rodents and the woods.

“We should actually get out to the parks today,” I said, realizing how long it’d been since I went outside.

“I want to try that slide,” Irwin said. “Online it said it was human or furry form and my wolf --- we have to.”

“Is your wolf going ninety words a second again?” Marcus teased.

“He is. He’s trying to out talk his tail,” Irwin laughed.

“And you haven’t even had coffee yet,” Marcus laughed.

Room service knocked on the door as if summoned by the word ‘coffee.’

“Time to eat,” Marcus grinned.

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Irwin

I didn’t know I was afraid of heights until we were almost up the stairs to the slide. I’d flown on planes all over stateside looking for anyone who could help Shepard with his visions. I was never fond of flying, but it didn’t leave my hands trembling like this. The shit thing was, I knew it was a six-story slide. I read it online for myself.

I focused on Fen in front of me and Marcus’s soft steps behind me. I tried to think of how nice Fen’s ass looked in his swim trunks but couldn’t focus.

“Mate,”Marcus cooed over our mating link.“We can go get funnel cakes or try the non-water rides.”

“I want to do this. My wolf wants to do this,”I said back to him.“Besides, there’s no going back now.”

“This is a rodent park. If you turned around and said you were about to have a panic attack from heights, they’d make way. Hell, they’d probably try to carry you down,”Marcus said.

“That’s what I’m worried about.”

“We got you,”Fen said, reaching back to take my hand.“We can all go down together.”

“I think I’ll be okay once I’m on the slide. It’s looking between steps that’s killing me,”I admitted as my head swam.

“Close your eyes,”they said in sync.

I did. It reminded me of when Felix had blindfolded Marcus and me to show us the new house. A smile pulled at my lips even as my ears’s balance mechanism tried to play with my head. Marcus placed a hand on my shoulder and I squeezed Fen’s. Between them I was invincible. Sure, the anxiety was still there, but it wasn’t stopping me anymore. My feet kept moving with the line.

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