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silly. “I’m all right now. You can go get the bag.”
    Ryan chuckled. “Why thank you for giving me permission.” He disentangled them and stood once more before helping Bradley up and sitting him down on the stool that was in front of the vanity. “I’ll be right back. We’ll continue our conversation when we get back to the table. Think about anything you want to try and any questions you have.”
    Bradley nodded and smiled at him in the mirror. Someone in heaven must’ve been listening to his pleading over the past few months. He looked at the two of them side by side in the mirror before Ryan turned to the door and left out of it. They looked like they fit together.
    Bradley was smaller than Ryan, but he was toned, cut. His piercings, each one given by Ryan, saved him from looking too innocent with his mop of blond hair that he was always forgetting to cut and his big hazel eyes. Ryan was huge, towering, and just as cut as Bradley was except his muscles were probably more from the gym than from his natural build. He was tattooed on both arms, and when he wore a tank top, the line of dermal piercings that ran the length of his spine was visible. He looked edgy without trying but with the extras looked like he was the last person someone would want to run into in a dark alley. His dark hair and eyes complemented Bradley nicely. His eyes skated over his arms. He hoped to become a part of the story on the half-sleeve of ink that was on his right arm.
     
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    “I’ll be right back, Mac. I’m ducking out to the car for Bradley’s bag,” Ryan said, letting the owner know that he wasn’t ditching out on his meal. Kira was keeping their plates under a hot lamp, thank God.
    Mac rounded the bar and matched his steps. “I’ll walk with you.”
    Uh-oh . He was in trouble.
    “What’s up, Mac?” Ryan asked as they passed the double doors and came into the parking lot.
    “How long have you been with that sub you’re interviewing?” The question wasn’t unexpected. Despite being inferior in the pack hierarchy, Mac was older than him by ten years and had been settling down when Ryan had been an unruly pup. That gave him the right to tell the beta exactly where to get off as far as Ryan was concerned.
    “He was a client at Howlers the past few months.” He couldn’t even lie and say he’d “known” Bradley. Other than the thirty-minute flirtations they’d engaged in when Bradley came in, every time Ryan had run into him in public, he’d made it abundantly clear he didn’t want to know Bradley in a more intimate setting. He’d been running away from Bradley’s advances ever since he first realized he was genuinely attracted to the boy.
    They made it to Mustang’s work truck, and he hit the unlock button on the key. Mac slapped him on the shoulder and turned him around so they were facing. “Do you think ducking into the back during negotiations to scratch an itch is the best way to go about getting to know him well enough to Dominate him in a scene?”
    “I’m not hurting him, Mac. I’m going to train him as an available and then turn him loose.” It was his new mantra. He would find the strength to walk away at the end of it all. He had to. For his salvation and for Bradley’s. He would make a fine mate for someone else. The low growl in the back of his mind told him that his wolf was telling him he was out of his fucking mind.
    “You don’t look at a sub with all that want and trepidation without them being your mate. It’s plain as day for anyone with eyes. You’re going to hurt the both of you if you keep denying the instincts God gave you. Fair warning, you hurt a new sub and you and I will have more than words. Got it?” Mac asked, his voice deadly.
    Ryan resisted the urge to snarl. He knew Mac was just being protective of a new sub in the pack. Even if they weren’t really pack members, availables were an intricate and valuable part of it. However, it felt a lot like his