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going to make sure every man here knows it.”
    “Then you had no choice in the matter?” Tess gasped. “That’s barbaric.”
    “There are many reasons, but now is not the time to discuss them,” Chastity insisted. “I’ve got a class to teach, and these men don’t need to hear anything about this from me.”
    Nodding her agreement, Tess strode over to the table along with Chastity and took a seat by her side. The group spent about an hour discussing how to care for wounds during regeneration, how to deal with substances toxic to werewolves, and what to do in instances of blood loss, such as when limbs were first hacked off or during a particularly violent birthing.
    That last topic made Chastity more nervous than ever. Was she really about to purposely attempt to create babies with a man she didn’t even know? What if they ended up not liking each other? What if once they had sex it was terrible and she was forced to keep repeating the distasteful act numerous other times anyway? The whole thing smacked of disaster, didn’t it?
    But then she thought about everything that might go right as well. Night was handsome, intelligent, and a good kisser. That much she already knew. So unless he was secretly harboring traits that she had not yet discovered, what was there about him that was not to like? So far, she liked him very much.
    Chastity spent hours discussing werewolf first aid to various groups of men. Tess elected to remain with her for the greater part of the day so the two could exchange bits of gossip during the breaks.
    The men gathered at the little table. The last group was the liveliest, and it was this one that Night decided to join.
    “The hunters should be back soon with whatever they managed to catch for the evening,” he told her as he sat in the chair she had formerly been using.
    “Is that how you treat a lady?" she admonished him. The stern effect was completely lost behind the desire to devour his lips with hers. She had been thinking about it all day long, and his sudden presence did nothing but make her wanton thoughts increase in their intensity.
    Tess smirked as she looked between the two and noticed that she and the men were now completely forgotten. Night and Chastity stared at each other until her blatant chuckle snapped them out of it
    “There’s plenty of room on this chair for the right lady," he replied with a grin.
    “So I was right, then,” said Chastity to her new friend. “Started in already.”
    “I don’t think I will bother to ask what that is,” Night commented, smirking in Tess’s direction. “There’s absolutely no way two women sat together all day long without this morning’s events being recounted and thoroughly analyzed.”
    “It so happens that Tess may be having a baby,” Chastity said “We may very well have been talking about that, instead of the rather sudden change of my plans.”
    “Liar,” he chuckled. “Unless you were talking about your babies growing up together, that I might believe, but not that you said nothing to her at all.”
    "Not as much as you seem to believe I have,” Chastity said. “I only said that Julian has sent me to be your mate, and nothing more than that.”
    "Very well, and I suppose I simply added a bit more grist for the gossip.”
    “My Lord, I will never presume to spread such news," Tess scoffed. “That is for the two of you reveal as you will.”
    “Well, get ready, ladies, because it is about to be made clear,” Night smirked as he reached out and pulled Chastity down onto his lap.
    “Night!” she gasped as the men who had been waiting for class laughed. “How seriously do you think this lot is likely to take the teacher if she’s sitting on your lap?"
    Night cast the men a stern look as he said, "They had better take it just as seriously as they take me."
    "Don’t you have some lordly thing or other you ought to be doing?" she complained as she tried not to laugh.
    “This is a lordly thing,” he