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what he truly wants.”
    He looked into her lovely aquamarine eyes. “What he wants?”
    She held out her hand and he let her lead him into the room. She smiled. “James is in love.”
    “How…” Hold up. Was he actually going to ask his mate, the Goddess of freaking Love, how she knew that little factoid? Moron. “The thought never even crossed my mind. Wait, you mean Pax, don’t you.”
    She nodded.
    He stretched out in front of the fire and laid his head down in her lap. This was brilliant. How the hell was he going to keep James from pulling more erratic shit in the field? He’d already taken a bullet for Pax. What next? He took a deep breath. First things first. He had to get everyone through that ceremony tomorrow in one piece.

CHAPTER TWO
    Diesel walked out of the closet and looked at the colossal mess he’d made of the suite. Wasn’t Helen just going to love that? He went to the antique desk and pulled the middle drawer open a little harder than he meant to. Nada. Son of a bitch. He hadn’t seen his ruby cuff links since he and the Doc expanded their suite. Fuck. Me. There was a brief tap on the door. Pax .
    “Yo!”
    His partner walked in and took in the view. “Hey. Why does it look like your next call should be to FEMA?”
    “My fucking cufflinks are missing.”
    Pax closed the door. “The Order rubies? I put them in the safe when we were working in here. Remember?”
    He ran his hand though his hair and sighed. “Shit, that’s right. I totally spaced. Hey, how’s James doing?”
    “Yeah, about that. I need you to do me a favor.”
    He popped a piece of gum in his mouth. “Sure. Shoot.”
    “Do you think you could make sure he does the prep work before the ceremony? The meditation and whatnot?”
    “Don’t you want to do it? You’re his camzah .”
    The male’s eyes began to glow faintly and he looked down at his feet. “Yeah, I do. I just don’t think it’d be very fair considering how he feels about me right now.”
    “Pax—”
    His partner looked at him with those warm chocolate browns and a lump formed in Diesel’s throat. He knew that look. It wasn’t so long ago that he’d seen it in his own gaze. Desperation. Like the male was about to unleash some crazy at any moment.
    “Not now, Dies. Please. Just tell me you’ll do it.”
    “Yeah, of course.”
    “Thanks. He knows what he needs to do. You just need to make sure he doesn’t leave anything out.” His partner handed him a gold box. “I picked up his cufflinks this morning. Would you give them to him for me?”
    “Sure.”
    Pax turned and headed for the door. “I gotta go. I’ll see you in a bit.”
    Diesel sat down on the bed and opened the box. Holy… He knew these cufflinks. They belonged to Pax’s father. The center stones had been swapped out for the traditional red rubies of the Order, but the metal design and pave diamond trim were still intact. He carefully took one in his hand and flipped it over. The old man’s initials were still engraved on the back. Son of a bitch.
     
    Rose Sato sat in her Cambridge Street office at Harvard University. She looked away from the window and down at her desk. Not good. There was a fifty-pound grant proposal for the school’s Institute of Japanese Studies to read, a pile of exams to be corrected, and her latest article to finish. She looked back out the window into the March sunshine as she once again found herself wondering about the male at the Boston Public Library. Xavier. The whole thing just seemed so, well, odd. He was a New Breed warrior, for one thing. That bit of knowledge had been front and center in her mind since she’d sensed him when he knocked her books over a few weeks ago. Now she’d seen him twice more. He was striking to look at—incredible, actually. What would a New Breed shifter possibly want at BPL? More to the point, what would a male like that want with her?
    He clearly wanted something. He told her that he wanted to take her class, but it