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.Dakota's admiring gaze had Henry's body reacting in response.He turned on the shower, hiding his desire with his actions.Once steam filled the bathroom, he stepped inside, gasping as the stream of hot water splashed across his skin.Turning, he beckoned his wolf-man inside.He tried to keep his scrubbing impersonal but touching Dakota was like setting a lit match to dry tinder.Flames raced through his body."Now isn't the time to become shy," Dakota's eyes sparkled with laughter.Henry laughed."I'm not shy.I just didn't want to take advantage of you."Dakota's mouth dropped open."Trust me, I'll tell you when you go too far.Right now you're not going far enough.Enter me, make me yours."How could Henry resist a beautiful man made just for him?"You might not want me after we talk." There, he'd told Dakota his biggest fear."I don't want you to be tied to someone you no longer respect." Henry's erection faded with his confession.Dakota gave him a long, considering look before finally nodding."Fine, let's talk first."The two men quickly finished their shower in silence, each lost in their own thoughts.Henry dried Dakota thoroughly before drying himself."Anthony dropped off more clothes while we were gone." The Alpha Mate took it as a personal affront if someone in his pack didn't have what he or she needed.Henry walked back into his bedroom.The quiet footsteps of Dakota following him made him shiver.In the short time they'd known each other, he'd already become fond of the shy wolf.Losing Dakota now would make the pain of the fighting pits seem trifling, but Henry wouldn't cower or hide behind the bond of mates.He may have bitten Dakota, but as long as he wasn't in wolf form, or while they were making love, the other man wouldn't completely be his mate.Henry refused to claim the beautiful wolf-man while they had Henry's past hanging over them.In the bottom of his dresser, Henry pulled out the clothes Anthony had dropped off earlier.They dressed in silence as Henry searched for the right words.Once they were back in the living room, they settled on Henry's overstuffed couch, and he concentrated on looking everywhere but at Dakota.There was a stain on the bottom corner of his rug he'd never noticed before.Was it from pizza sauce? He slid his bare foot across the surface to feel out the texture with his toe, hmm… could be."Henry!" Henry's head snapped towards Dakota.His mate's eyes flashed with irritation."Tell me.""I… I don't know if I can," Henry confessed his greatest fear.Even without the wolf issue, Henry had enough baggage to open his own luggage store.He heard Dakota take a deep breath as if trying to keep his anger under control and Henry broke.He didn't want the other man mad at him."I killed my brother," Henry blurted out.Fresh pain seared through his chest as the memory blazed across his mind.Looking down at his shirt, he wondered why blood didn't gush from the open wound after ripping out his heart."What do you mean you killed your brother?" Dakota sounded more curious than horrified, but Henry still couldn't look at the man.Henry jumped to his feet, pacing the length of the carpet.With each step, back and forth, he sought words to describe his life."When we were young, Tim and I were always the biggest, the tallest, the strongest, and way too alpha for our pack leader's taste.One day we were jumped on our way home from a football game.When we woke up we were in cages." His voice broke at the memory but he forced himself to continue.It was important to get through the story.He could pick himself back up after Dakota left."What happened, Henry?""Our Alpha sold us to another Alpha who used his strongest men as pit fighters.He held illegal games where they forced shifters to fight against each other, to the death."Bile rose in Henry's throat as he remembered the dozens of werekin he killed over the three years of his captivity."They got me to fight by threatening to kill my brother and did the same to him.Sometimes they would do things to make the odds more even.Tie our hands, break a few ribs before the fight, or put cinnamon oil on our noses so we couldn't smell properly.I never…" Henry's voice broke, but he swallowed the tears threatening to spill and continued.Dakota needed to know what type of man he planned to tie himself to."I never thought they'd go so low.The last fight they blindfolded me and put cinnamon oil on my nose.I didn't know until after it was over that they'd… they'd thrown me in the pit with Timothy."Henry fell to his knees and sobbed as memories flooded his mind of his brother, bleeding on the floor, his neck snapped.When smaller arms wrapped around Henry, it shocked him so much he almost tossed the person across the room, until he recognized the scent of his mate.* * * *Dakota had never heard anything so horrible in his life.Fights among pack members rarely resulted in death.Things weren't perfect in his pack but they weren't day after day of torture either.He felt Henry's pain as if it were part of his own.He could barely breathe through the heavy burden of grief crushing the other man's heart.Dakota couldn't imagine the horror of finding out he'd killed his own brother."How did you get out of there?" He finally asked, once he swallowed down the tears blocking his throat.Henry gave a bitter laugh, his eyes wet with sorrow."That turned out to be the night Silver came to investigate rumors about pit fighting [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]