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was telling the truth and he was being
dead serious right now.
    “Why would you suddenly stop
having sex just because your fox woke up?”
    He let out a frustrated
breath and sagged against the wall behind him. “At first it was only because he
wouldn’t let me. Every time I tried, he made my dick go limp. Then I realized
he knew where our mate was and I no longer wanted to have sex with anyone
else.”
    All this time I’d been trying
to give him what I thought he wanted not knowing that his fox had already taken
it away from him. I tried to feel bad about making him suffer unnecessarily,
but knowing he hadn’t slept with anyone for six months made me unbelievably
happy. Then I remembered the one , and what he said in our dream about
betraying me suddenly made a lot more sense. “Who did you have sex with during
the storm?”
    “It doesn’t matter Renee, it
only happened because I was on the verge of bloodlust and I thought she was
you.”
    My jaw set and I asked again,
“Who was it Solomon? After all, fair is fair. If you challenge Dimitri I’ll
need to know who to hunt down and kill for daring to touch my mate.”
    Now it was his turn to glare
but he answered, “It was Rachel, Rook’s new stepdaughter.”
    “The human?” I’d heard a lot
about her and none of it was good.
    “Yes, for the time being, but
someday soon she’ll be a nightshifter.”
    “And if she wants to be a
fox; do you plan to be her sire?” I did not like that idea at all, nope not one
little bit.
    He shrugged. “If she asks me
to be, but honestly I don’t think she’s even talking to me right now. She was
pretty upset when she figured out that I thought she was you.”
    “I don’t want you drinking
from her, or hell, anyone you’ve ever slept with.” My hands flew up to cover my
mouth but it was too late, the words were already out before I even realized
what I was saying.
    I’d spent the last thirty
years trying not to think about Solomon as anything more than a friend, because
I knew that being one of many would never be enough for me. If he couldn’t be
mine and mine alone, then I couldn’t allow our relationship to become sexual.
Thankfully, the females he did sleep with usually spared my feelings by waiting
until I wasn’t around to pounce on him. So at least I rarely had to witness his
widely talked about sexual antics. Yet even without seeing for myself, I always
hated knowing that he slept with every damn woman who would have him. 
    Now, the thought of him
feeling sexual pleasure, even just from feeding, with anyone but me had the fox
clawing at my insides. My human side didn’t like the idea much either and the
vampire was ready to go on a homicidal rampage.
    Welcome to the wonderful
world of mating a mocking voice chuckled in the back of my mind.
    Solomon grinned, a sexy curve
of his lips and prowled over to stand directly in front of me.
    No, no, no. He was too close.
The heat radiating from his body pulsed between us and I had to clench my fists
behind my back to keep myself from touching him.
    “Technically, I’ve never
slept with anyone except for you, but if you mean all the women I’ve had sex
with, you’re not leaving me many feeding options and once you take away all the
mated females, there are almost none.”
    His voice was soft, hypnotic,
and his eyes were pools of melted caramel ringed with liquid gold. Wow, no
wonder so many women have dropped their panties with just a look from him. In
all the years we’d known each other, he’d never looked at me quite like that
before, but what he said made no sense at all.
    “What do you mean you’ve
never slept with anyone but me?”
    Smoothing his hands up and
down my arms he stepped even closer until a deep breath would have my suddenly
aching breasts brushing against his warm, hard body. “You are the only woman I
have ever shared my bed with or fallen asleep beside. I’ve never wanted to have
that level of intimacy with anyone but you. That’s why I