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Shock resounded through Navarro.
A snarl slipped past his throat as he turned on the other Breed, fury spreading through his system with the force of a tidal wave.
He’d be damned if he’d allow any other Breed a chance to do any such thing.
“She’s still my fucking mate,” Navarro informed them all with icy rage. “She carries my scent.”
Josiah’s arms crossed over his powerful chest as a smirk curved his lips. “No, Navarro, she doesn’t. She smells of heat and arousal, but her scent is still her own. She has not taken your scent. Dr. Morrey believes nature would allow Mica to choose another mate, as you’ve so obviously rejected her. She’s Breed compatible and mate hungry. And I have no problem whatsoever fixing that little problem.”
Breed compatible and mate hungry?
Navarro sneered back at him. “If she had wanted you, whelp, then she would have claimed you years ago. What makes you think you can claim what’s mine now?”
“Because you so obviously don’t know how to do the job right.” Josiah smirked.
That smirk, the confidence and male gloating in his eyes, seemed to snap something inside him, something primal and vital, and before Navarro could restrain it, that unknown something disappeared from his grasp beneath the anger surging through him.
“Get the hell out of my way.” Navarro went to move around Josiah.
He was finished with this conversation.
“If the doctor is right, then perhaps we should consider what Mica has to say first, Navarro,” Dane drawled with a hint of amused interest. Enough so that Navarro knew the other man was entirely serious about asking Mica’s opinion. And Navarro was certain it wouldn’t be in his favor.
Navarro froze for the briefest second before turning to face the Vanderale heir, a man he had considered a friend until this moment.
“Go to hell!”
Turning back, he pushed past Josiah and slammed out of the vid-comm room to stride furiously up the hall to Ely’s office.
He’d be damned if anyone would take his mate.
He didn’t have to let the animal free to claim her. No matter the mating hormone that no longer filled his system, he could still claim her.
He’d already claimed her. He’d left his mark on her, and he’d be damned if he’d allow another Breed to replace it.
But to keep her, could he release the animal struggling to awaken inside him?
It was a question he wasn’t willing to answer.
But, he feared, it was one he would have to face. He could feel some unnamed emotion, a burning sense of awareness flaring inside him that he was unable to fight, unable to define. And for both his and Mica’s sake, he prayed it wasn’t the animal finally breaking free.
CHAPTER 12
Cassie had been amazingly silent since Mica’s little adventure began, but as she stepped into the bedroom and closed the door behind her, the first thing Mica spotted was the sat phone and note left on the coffee table.
Moving to it, she couldn’t help but smile.
Cassie’s having a meltdown and threatening to leave Haven. Please call her—Merinus.
Choosing the contacts option, she was thankful to see Merinus had added Cassie’s number. Remembering phone numbers was her weakness. She used speed dial for a reason.
“I’m sorry,” was Cassie’s answer before the first ring ever went through.
Mica felt her lips tremble. Cassie didn’t cry often, but when she did, her voice had a particular sound, a raspiness that was unmistakable. And from the sound of it, Cassie hadn’t been simply crying, she had been sobbing for long periods.
“Cass, stop crying,” Mica ordered as she fought her own tears now.
God, she wished the other woman were here. At the moment, she needed a shoulder to cry on herself, and she needed someone to help her figure out exactly what was going on.
