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Hawke said. It all makes sense now.”
    This man was her mate, and she knew it. She’d always known it. What the hell had she been thinking, believing she had to give herself to another? “Canyon, what should I do? How do I fight this? My mother is dead. I have no brothers. Most of my family is female. I don’t have enough blood relative males I can call on to help fight off the Medinas.”
    “I know that.” He placed his hands on her shoulders, and the touch sent shivers down her spine.
    “I’m my father’s only hope. His mental capacity has been diminishing. If he loses his business as well, I might as well put an arrow through his heart and end his life. I had convinced myself that my own desires no longer mattered. That I had a duty to save what was left of my family’s legacy.”
    The lust in his beautiful dark eyes stirred her soul. She might still be a virgin, but her female cousins had told her often enough what it was like to have sex with the man you loved. She had no fear of having it the first time, at least not if the man was Canyon.
    “Fiera, you aren’t alone in this fight. Not anymore.”
    He was so strong and handsome. She’d always thought so.
    Dark hair that hung down his back and eyes that normally flashed with humor and intensity. His clothes couldn’t hide the hard muscles, and she’d even glimpsed the tats on his chest and upper arms a few times when he hadn’t known she was watching. All the male lynxes sported them, but she had eyes only for Canyon.
    The urge to give herself to him right now was stronger than it had ever been. He was the sexiest man she’d ever seen. Fiera understood the delicious tightness in her groin and the reason her pussy became wet whenever she so much as thought about Canyon. She’d brought herself to orgasm often enough to know how that felt, always while fantasizing about him. She wanted to experience it with Canyon’s cock inside her, not merely by rubbing herself.
    He’d gone to all this trouble to bring her here, to a place where they’d have complete privacy. The gesture touched her very soul.
    She glanced up into his face. “I should have told you. I realize that now.”
    The hard stare he gave her nearly tore her heart in two. “Tell me everything he’s ever said to you, no matter how you think I’ll react. I need to know the entire story.”
    Once he heard it, he might leave her here alone to go and find Hawke. He’d kill him. He had a right to do so, but that wouldn’t end her family’s danger. Hawke had a living father, two brothers, and plenty of male uncles and cousins who would not only avenge his death, but continue his quest.
    “I’m not sure you can help me. Even if Hawke was out of the picture, what would stop one of his unmated cousins from deciding to take up the challenge and claim me? I will never be free of his family.”
    “I do not accept that. Fiera, I am not letting this go. I will not simply give you to that swine of a family.”
    Shivers ran down her spine again at the tone of his voice and at the way his eyes flashed with righteous indignation. This man would fight for her. She had no one else she could trust with this much information. Who else but her true mate should hear this anyway?
    When Canyon took her hands, his features softened. She drew strength from their warmth as he led her back to the sofa, where they sat facing each other with their legs crossed.
    “You really do love me.”
    The expression of adoration in his eyes melted her heart. “Of course I do. You’re my mate. Fiera, please. Let me help you.”
    “I love you, too, Canyon. I have all my life.” Fiera forced back her tears by taking a couple of deep breaths to calm her emotions. “Okay. You know my father hasn’t been the same since we lost my mother. And you know he’s left running the company to my uncles for the most part. We used to control the timber rights to eighty percent of this land. The land on which all the packs live. At one