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landed on Dev’s arm and started stroking.
    A tingle raced up Dev’s spine, his gut twisted and his bottom teeth joined the top. “Holy fuck!” Oh man.
    That couldn’t be due to adrenaline. Nope, now that he thought about it, the adrenaline had worn off.
    Way worn off.
    “What?” Cole sounded bewildered.
    Huh? He’d totally forgotten about Cole again. “I…Cole, I gotta let ya go. I’ll start looking for land and apartments and talk to the realtor about the office building. I, yeah, gotta go, buddy.”
    “What? Dev what’s wrong? You sound weird.”
    “I just…you know the man I rescued?”
    “Yeah?”
    “I’m pretty sure that he’s my mate.”

    Laine blinked his eyes open to find one of the most ruggedly handsome men he’d ever seen inches from his face. The man smiled at him and Laine’s stomach flip-flopped. The sense of rightness overwhelmed him. A feeling of anticipation and excitement followed. His cock was harder than a steel pipe, his canines had extended and he was seeing in black and white. “Darn eyes. I hate not seeing color. I really like being able to—” This man is my mate. He didn’t know how he knew it but he did. “You’re my mate.”
    Shoot. There he went again, blurting out whatever popped into his mind. What if this man hadn’t figured that out? Laine’s senses told him the man was a wolf, but…
    “It would seem so, yes.”
    Nice deep sexy voice. How had he gotten a mate and not even realized it? What had he been doing?
    Laine pushed himself up on one arm and looked around. Darned eyes. The night vision was nice, but—no color?—it sucked. He was in some sort of hotel room, a colorless hotel room. “Where am I and how did I get here? Where did you come from?”
    The man sat up.
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    Yum. Laine felt like rubbing his hands together. The man was huge. He had nice big muscles, broad shoulders. Wow. He wished he could tell what color the man’s hair, eyes and skin were. His hair was dark as were his eyes, but Laine couldn’t make out a definite color; probably black hair and brown eyes, but were they chocolate brown or a reddish-brown? Darn it. This was his mate, he really wanted to know these things.
    “You’re in my hotel room. I was supposed to meet with your Alpha and when I showed up—”
    “Oh, yeah. I got my ass kicked by Victor and his goons again.” He waved his hand, but the big man’s eyes flicked down to his chest before catching his gaze again. “That’s par for the course. You’d think I’d learn to keep my mouth shut. But, noooo, I just had to tell them they were wrong. You saved me? You must be the guy they were going to rough up…” Laine grinned until he couldn’t contain his mirth any longer, then giggles escaped. This was the man Victor was going to beat up?
    His mate frowned. “What the hell is so funny?”
    “I’m sorry, it’s not you. It’s just that Victor has screwed himself this time. You’re freaking huge. And strong too, I can sense it. You are way stronger than Victor.” He burst into giggles again, before slapping a hand over his mouth trying to stop.
    Finally, the man started chuckling too, and he glanced down. The scent of arousal in the room increased.
    Laine peered down and realized his shirt was ripped. His gold nipple rings were showing. Did the man like his rings? Laine loved his rings played with. Wait, I saw the gold of my rings. My eyes changed.
    Laine looked back to the man. His eyes were copper-colored, his hair a soft black. He was darkly tanned, with a square jaw. His whole face transformed when he laughed. This man may be big, strong and fierce, but he was gentle too. “Oh.” Laine’s fingers were itching to touch. He reached towards his mate’s cheek, hesitantly. He bit his bottom lip, his hand trembling slightly.
    The man grabbed Laine’s hand and laid it against his cheek.
    Damn if Laine’s cock didn’t jerk at the