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across his side.
    Flesh wound.
    The crack of another shot had him crouching lower over Raul, but this time the human was the one who fell. His lip curled in a snarl as he swung his massive head around to take in the scene. Three men’s bodies were sprawled across the floor and Manon and Payson stood in the doorway, guns out and ready.
    Kontra shifted back to human form. Unmindful of his nudity, he checked over Raul’s injuries. The two wounds on his limbs didn’t seem too bad, but the one in his chest needed attention, immediately if the human were to have any hope of surviving.
    “Manon,” he roared. “You’re a paramedic, right? Get over here.”

Chapter Six
    Sean sat in the glider in front of the fire, gently rocking Lily to sleep. He hoped Raul wouldn’t mind that he’d moved the chair closer to the fire, but he loved being able to relax and watch the flames dance as he fed his niece. It was peaceful—the first inkling of peace he’d felt in months. The only thing that would make it perfect was if his mate was by his side.
    Noticing Lily had nodded off, Sean rose from the chair and headed deeper into the house. As he laid her down in the crib, he still couldn’t believe the events of the last couple days. The beta, Shane Alvaro, had come and introduced himself as Declan had stated. After the shifter had confirmed that Raul and Sean were mates, he’d taken one look at the infant in his arms and made a call to someone named Caroline, who turned out to be his mate.
    Forty-five minutes later, and during that time Sean had been completely stressed out because he’d thought Shane wanted Caroline to take his Lily from him, the woman in question had arrived with several others in tow, men and women. Instead of taking Lily, they’d set up a bedroom for her.
    To Raul’s spare bedroom, they’d added a crib, a changing table complete with fully stocked drawers, and an armoire, also fully stocked with baby things from diapers to toys to enough clothes to last Lily until she turned at least one.
    Shane had just sat at the table, drinking a cup of coffee, and let his mate work. It was like watching a queen with her ants. Just amazing! After they had everything set up, the twenty questions began anew. This time, Caroline and her friends, Victoria and Teline, had asked about Lily and Lily’s mother. They’d ooh and ahh and even growled in all the right places, all the while promising support and help if he ever needed it.
    After many best wishes and congratulations on his mating, they had left and Sean found himself alone again, except he no longer really felt alone. He had the phone numbers for at least a dozen pack members in the new phone Shane had given to him.
    He knew he’d have trouble putting faces to names, but as he’d watched them all leave, two men stood out. A funny smelling human named Miach and his wolf mate Nick. He watched in amazement as Miach opened the door of a very pretty classic car, then cupped Nick’s jaw and kissed him thoroughly.
    Instead of looks of derision, or even scowls, the women tittered and a couple men smirked. Even Shane just rolled his eyes at their display and helped his mate into their sedan.
    It was then when Sean finally came to grips with the fact that this pack was like none other he’d ever heard of. It was a place he could call home, with a safe open environment for Lily to grow up, a place where the pack would accept him and his mating. And people would really be happy for them instead of lying through their teeth.
    Now, all Sean had to do was convince Raul.
    Another thing Sean realized pretty darn quickly was that he couldn’t not sleep in Raul’s room. He’d tried. Sean knew it’d be best if Raul actually invited him into his bed, but Sean’s wolf was having none of it.
    He’d lain down at night on the spare bed in Lily’s room, only to wake up in wolf form on Raul’s bed. Sean was mighty glad that no one else was there to witness the indignity, because