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learning more every day. But Daddy, he’s my mate. This,” I touched Jake’s shoulder. “This is it for me.”
    Daddy nodded once and walked toward the trees. In a few steps he grabbed a duffle he must have dropped when he saw his daughter about to get busy in the woods. He tossed it, and it landed at Jake’s feet.
    “Get dressed, please. Jake, there are clothes that will fit you as well, I assume. Doc handed me the duffle and gave me directions. I have no doubt that he would have packed for everyone here.” The man who raised me then turned and grumbled like a disgruntled teen under his breath. “A guy can’t even get a heads up about his kid getting mated. I need a new Beta.”
    “Daddy…”
    “I’ll meet you back at the cabin. I deserve a chance to, if nothing else, say good-bye to my daughter.”
    “Daddy…” But before we could say more, the man who raised me and stuck by my side as we both fought our way into a new world, shifted where he stood. His clothes ripped from his now furry form, and he took off toward the cabin, without any conversation.
    Growing up, Daddy and I were never very talkative. Back in the days that we didn’t howl at the moon, fathers and daughters held little more than polite conversation. One positive thing that comes out of the change is how much you can learn about the people you love. We talked a lot more now.
    The changes we went through together were experiences no one but us shared. He was my Alpha now, but my daddy always. I didn’t look forward to telling him I had to leave him. I looked forward to him seeing all the stuff I broke in the cabin even less. Daddy really liked that lamp.

Chapter Ten
    The walk back to the cabin was remarkably slow considering we were both badass supernatural beings. It was sad that a hybrid and werewolf were terrified of Daddy. Granted Daddy was a badass Alpha, one of the only turned weres this side of the Mississippi with his own Pack, but still.
    “I would prefer not to kill your father.”
    And that was not something to say to a still unorgasmed woman when she was about to make a major life decision with no nookie to calm her nerves.
    “And I would prefer not to de-ball my mate, so it’s a good thing neither of us is going to do anything we’re talking about, isn’t it?”
    Jake and I were only a hundred feet or so from the cabin at that point, so if we raised our voices just a little bit more, Daddy was going to overhear our fight. Great.
    “I am just saying that I will defend myself. Should your father attack me, my control at the moment may not be the most trustworthy. If he tries to take what is mine from me, it will not go over well either. I may not know much about Pack life, but I know darn well that mate comes first. So if we go in there, are you going to give me the place at your side?”
    “What do you mean if we go in there? We owe my daddy some explanation.”
    “So we decided what we’re doing, huh?”
    There was always a flaw in my plan. This was supposed to be our last carefree hurrah. I was supposed to run around all wolfy and then have some happy sexy-time with my mate. He was mine, but still so new to me that I wanted to start uncovering the mystery of my statuesque mate. I could learn a lot about a person when they were naked. Or at least forget about what I didn’t know.
    Speaking of stuff I didn’t know, I realized Jake was so new to me that I didn’t even know his middle name.
    “What’s your middle name? Or are you too old to have one?”
    He ran his hands through his hair and gripped his scalp. He didn’t loosen his hold as he replied. It did awesome things for his abs that were visible through the thin tee Doc had packed for him, but I was just too nervous about what we had to decide to think about jumping his bones. Much .
    “Eugene. What does my name have to do with anything ?”
    “Just realized if I was about to lose my life I should at least know the middle name of the