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keep him safe and happy? “I do want to be your mate. I just don’t want you to think I’m going to live off of you.”
    Kevin looked up. Tears filled those golden eyes, wrenching Payce’s gut into a whole nest of knots. “I don’t care if you live off of me. If you want to work, I’ll find something for you. If you don’t, that’s fine too. All I want is for you to stay with me and be my mate. That’s all I’ve ever wanted, a mate.”
    He’d never been someone’s dream before, but Payce could tell from the look in Kevin’s eyes that he was everything to this wonderful man. “If I claim you, will you always be mine?”
    “Even if you don’t claim me, I will always be yours.” He could see the truth in the lion’s eyes.
    “Then let me claim you.”
    Kevin’s smile was blinding.
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Chapter Five
    Kevin couldn’t believe his luck. Just as he was certain Payce was going to tell him where to shove his mating, the temperamental jaguar decided to give in. How did he get so lucky?
    Some might not think it was lucky to have a mate on the run from some unknown psycho, but Kevin had waited his entire life for a mate of his own. He wasn’t going to let little details stop him from having his mate claim him.
    “How do you want me?”
    Payce gave him a sexy smirk. “I thought you liked to tell me what to do.” Kevin nodded, his cock rising at the idea. “I do but this is your mating too. How do you want me?”
    “Remember what you told me at my apartment?”
    Kevin ran his words through his mind. He remembered everything he ever told his mate. Fuck, he was hard.
    “Get on the bed,” he ordered. Not bothering to look and see if Payce obeyed, Kevin walked over to the chest by the wall. Reaching inside, he pulled out a set of handcuffs and a skein of rope.
    “Hands up,” Kevin barked, pleased when Payce’s hands snapped up.
    With quick efficient movements, Kevin snapped on one cuff, looped it through the headboard and cuffed Payce’s other wrist. The increase of pheromones and the pole standing at attention between his mate’s thighs, told Kevin that the jaguar was all for these games.
    Except Kevin wasn’t playing, he was binding for keeps. Whatever hang-ups his lover had, it was time for him to get over them. Payce was Kevin’s and he aimed to keep him.
    With quick, practiced movements, Kevin bound Payce’s ankles to the bottom posts. A low moan greeted his final loop.
    “Comfortable darlin’.”
    Payce nodded, panting. Kevin smiled when he saw one of Payce’s fangs peeping through his lips. His baby liked being tied down.
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    With a confident stride, Kevin approached his mate. “I want you to forget about leaving me. I don’t care what you decide to do with your life, but we are not going to be apart. Now, I can’t go and join you in Seattle because I’m attached to my boys and don’t want to miss them growing, and some psycho is after you, so you’re going to stay here until that’s resolved. But you are not allowed to leave me, understand?” Payce nodded.
    “Good. Now I’m going to slick myself up and enjoy that one-eyed monster you’ve got staring at me, and you’re going to be a good kitty and mark me as yours, do we have an agreement?”
    “Anything.” Payce licked his lips.” Anything you want, mate.” For the first time Payce admitted they were mates.
    Relief rushed through Kevin, he’d worried that Payce wouldn’t agree to their mating.
    Grabbing the tube he kept in his side table, Kevin spread the lube liberally on his fingers. Propping one foot between Payce’s bound ones, he lifted his ass and pressed his fingers inside giving Payce a show. Kevin let his moans fill the air as he loosened up his tight hole. It had been years since he’d let anyone inside him. He’d need lots of lube.
    “Please,” Payce begged. “Fuck me.”
    “I think you’ve got that wrong, darlin’. You’re going to fuck me.” Payce