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“I think it’s safe to say all of your sons have at least experimented.”
    “You have?”
    Richard’s responses would have been more comical if Leontis didn’t feel the need to throttle the answers he wanted out of Chase.
    “If Sage has been with a man before, then why doesn’t he want me?”
    Chase sent him a sympathetic look. “It’s not that you’re a guy, but, dude, seriously, have you seen yourself?”
    “So what, I’m too ugly?” Sure, Leontis knew he’d never win hottest man of the year, but he wasn’t a fucking troll.
    “No, but you’re bloody huge.” Chase rolled his eyes. “Sage is a big, bad, dominant Alpha, and then you come along saying you’re mates...he is going to have issues.”
    The light bulb flicked on in that moment. “He’s afraid I’d want to top him.”
    “Oh God, I don’t think I can hear this,” Richard muttered. He held up his hand when they all shot a glare at him. “I don’t mean because you’re talking about two men, but you are talking about one of my children. And male or female mate...there are some things a parent never needs to know.”
    Leontis gave the older man that. Hell, he didn’t exactly want to have this conversation with Sage’s brothers, let alone his father.
    “Listen, why don’t I take you up to see Tessa? Sage might be there, he might not. Either way, I think you should see her,” Chase offered. “After all, she is your mate.”
    He appreciated the other man’s gesture, quick to take him up on it. “That would be great. Thanks.”
    Leontis needed to know if at least one of his mates wanted him, but at the same time feared rejection again. He didn’t think he was strong enough to face that again.
     

Chapter Five
     
    Tessa paced her lounge room, desperate to hear back from Sage. When a car pulled up outside the small granny flat she moved to the window, pulling back the curtain to peek at who it was. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw Chase. Tessa had met Chase a few years back when he had come to Sydney to visit his sister, Ella.
    Walking to the door and opening it, her greeting fell short when she caught sight of the towering man behind Chase.
    Leontis.
    Her eyes darted from Chase, then back to Leontis over and over, waiting for an explanation. “Chase? L-Leontis?”
    The larger man smiled and Tessa cursed her traitorous body’s reaction to the sight.
    “Tessa, sweetheart,” he said softly, jogging toward her and sweeping her up in his arms.
    She melted against him, unwilling and unable to fight her attraction for him. Tessa felt torn and guilty. This wasn’t right, she shouldn’t feel this way about another man. Ella had explained some things to her, and if she truly was Sage’s mate, then her feelings for Leontis shouldn’t be possible. Leontis must have sensed her change, the tensing of her body, because he suddenly let her go, stepping backwards.
    “Not you too,” his voice broke with emotions, and it took her a moment to hear his words.
    “What?”
    Pain etched in his features. “First Sage, and now you. What is so wrong with me that neither of my mates want me?”
    “Mates?”
    What on earth was he talking about?
    He eyed her warily. “You do know you’re my mate?”
    Tessa’s jaw dropped. “I am? But...Sage?”
    “Is my mate as well...not that he wants me.” Leontis seemed so unsure, so hurt. Biting down on his bottom lip, Tessa had never seen the man look so lost.
    “Wait. So the two of you are mates, and I’m mate to both you?” She shook her head. “I’m just trying to work this out. I mean, is that even possible?”
    “Very, though I haven’t ever heard of a mate rejecting another, especially when they are both paranormals.” His bitter laughter crushed her.
    Tessa stood on the tips of her toes, cupping his face with one hand. “I don’t know what’s going on with you and Sage. What I do know is his sister, Ella, has told me a lot about mates, about what that means. I also know what I felt