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with his response to
her, lashing out and hurting her for his own issues. Now, he was living with
the consequences of his actions, and he hated it.
    Running fingers through his hair, he slid down the bed
until he landed on the floor. His cell phone went off, and he held it to his
ear.
    “How are you holding up?” Jack asked.
    “My mom’s upset.”
    “Do you blame her? Even I remember her talking all
excitedly about your mating. It was going to be the event of the year.”
    “I’ve fucked it up. I’ve fucked everything up.”
    Jack didn’t speak for several minutes. Running a hand
over his face, Marshall tried to think of something that could repair the
damage.
    “What was it like?” Jack asked.
    “What?”
    “You know, finding her? Knowing she was the one
designed to be yours for the rest of your life.”
    Blowing out a breath, Marshall rolled onto his back so
he was looking at the ceiling. “She smelled of roses, the forest, home. She
smelled like home, and when I heard her speak, I knew I could sit and listen to
her talk all day. It wouldn’t matter what she said, only that she kept talking
and didn’t stop.”
    “Wow,” Jack said.
    “I wanted to touch her. I wanted to wrap my arms
around her, hold her close and never let go. I wanted to fuck her, make love to
her, and claim her so no other guy would get the change. She’s the other half
of me, and I know I’ll do whatever it takes to protect her.”
    Jack was silent for several minutes.
    Marshall got to his feet, heading toward his closet.
    “What about her weight? I mean, she’s, you know,
chunky.”
    Pausing in his closet, he thought about Jack’s
question. “She’s perfect, Jack. Fuck, before summer, all of last year I was
responding to her. You know, getting turned on just being around her.”
    “Why didn’t you fucking say anything? I wouldn’t have
picked on her,” Jack said.
    “I don’t know. I didn’t understand it. Why did we
bully her? She was so fucking scared of me, Jack. She flinched away from my
touch as if the thought of my touch terrified her.”
    “Shit, man, I’m so sorry.”
    He rested the phone against his shoulder as he reached
up to grab the box that contained old school photos that his parents had gotten
over the years.
    “Is there anything you can do?”
    “I don’t know. I’m not going to quit or give up
without a fight. She’s my mate.”
    “What are you going to do about this new guy? He’s not
going to back away.”
    Marshall walked back to his bed, putting the box on
top. “We’re going to become friends with him.”
    Jack laughed. “How do you work that out?”
    “We become friends with him, I get close to Scarlett.
I can’t just leave her.”
    “You’re going to get close to her by being friends
with him?”
    “It’s the only way I can see it can work. When we’re
friends, I can push him away using other girls.”
    He was going to start being nice to her as well.
Marshall didn’t know what he was going to do, but he had the rest of the year
to try to figure it out. He disconnected the call and opened up the box. Inside
were all the photographs from years ago.
    Some of them were class photos. Picking one up from
when he was ten, he looked through the photo and stopped when he caught sight
of Scarlett. She was standing in front of him in the picture. How had he not
known she was going to be his mate?
    Sitting on his bed, he went through most of the
pictures, and was shocked to find they were close together in each one. Had he
known?
    His mother knocked on his door.
    “Come in.”
    He sat in the center of his bed surrounded with
pictures of his mate. There were not any of just her, but there was enough to
soothe his wolf.
    Carla carried a tray filled with cookies and some
milk.
    “You got through your first day.”
    “Is Dad still mad?”
    “He’s concerned.” She sat on the edge of the bed after
putting his drink and cookies on the night stand beside his bed. “ This her ?”
    Marshall