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None of it mattered to Key. The need for this man seemed to intensify with every passing moment. “Then just stay with me. Sleep next to me.”

He grimaced. “Tell me that nothing will happen—demand that nothing happens.”

And just like that, she knew he needed to hear the words. “Nothing can happen between us, Jax.”

“Okay.” Tension leached from his features. “Let’s go to sleep.”

When he slipped beneath the covers behind her and tugged her into the heat of his body, nothing had ever felt more natural. Jax, the human turned wolf she’d seen in visions since the dawn of her existence, was becoming a pivotal part of her life at the very end of it.

Key barely registered Nero’s telepathic call asking where she was. Bleary with exhaustion, she answered,I’m safe, sovereign.

At least for tonight.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Remmus

Today, Key would disclosewhen the final confrontation would take place. It had been two months since she’d walked in and told all of them of the future awaiting them. In the time since, Remmus had put everything on pause.

He was finally free of the coercion that’d iced his mind since he’d been a child. Luna, Nero’s healer, had assisted with his recovery, and he’d never once looked back.

His she-wolf mate pounced on him while he jogged on a treadmill. Hooking her legs around his waist and her arms around his shoulders, she laughed as he grasped ahold of her and continued to run.

“That was your sign to stop, Remmus,” she whispered in his ear. “We have places to be.”

“Precisely why I’m running.”

When her hand snaked forward and tapped the off button, Remmus gave a melodramatic sigh. “You’ve killed my treadmill, murderess!”

“You should be worrying that Key will murder you if we’re late.”

Pulling slightly on the thick blonde braid that was tossed over her shoulder, Remmus shrugged. “Have it your way, Blondie.” He gave her a once over. “Ready to go?”

“I am,” her finger came up to delicately trace up the clan mark on his pectoral, “but you should probably put a shirt on. Wouldn’t want to have to mark my territory in front of all those other females.”

“Tempting.”

“Mine.”

Ava reached out to grab Remmus’ chin, laughing as she claimed his lips. When she released him, he teleported a fitted black t-shirt onto his torso, and a half smile dimpled his cheek.

“All yours. Better?”

His mate nodded happily. “Let’s go to Nina’s house before everyone gets there. I don’t want to be late.”

“Taxi Remmus, at your service.”

He held her waist as they teleported directly to his sovereign’s stoop in Missouri. Knocking once for courtesy, they opened the door to hear excited chatter. Nina and Zeke’s voices mixed with those of Blair and Kaien.

“The party has arrived,” came his obligatory quip.

Kaien grinned, offering Remmus a warrior’s handshake. They had been thick as thieves for eight centuries and stood as each other’s best man at their weddings. There were few people Remmus trusted as implicitly as his best friend.

The healer bowed his head respectfully. “Ava.”

Thankfully, the two had forgiven one another for the parts they’d both played in Remmus’ near-death experience not long ago. A mixture of circumstance and error had caused psychic poisoning to take hold of his mind, and very nearly succeeded in claiming his life.

In the end, it’d been Ava who pulled him back from the brink.

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