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you’re not to blame for her mental
    issues.”
    Paris shook his head angrily. “I should have seen it. Out of
    everyone here, I knew her best. I just…” He broke off, not knowing
    how to explain the conflicting emotions he still had about his mother.
    Even if she had never shown him true affection, he’d always loved
    her. It was why he had defended her in the first place when his
    adoptive father had attacked her. He’d gone so far as to knock the
    man out to help her, not knowing what his choice would end up
    causing. But what else could he have done in those circumstances? It
    wasn’t like he could just let his mother die. “I just don’t know what
    I’m supposed to do,” he told Jace at last. “What I should have done.”
    “You acted in the best way you could, given what you knew at the
    time.” Jace tried to soothe him. “How could you have possibly known
    things would turn out the way they did? Besides, you shouldn’t dwell
    on what could have been. Reed is fine now, and I’m sure our forces
    will eventually catch the warlock and your mother.”
    But would they? There was one question that kept tormenting
    Paris ever since his mother had escaped Soren while being transported
    to Elder Wade’s lands. What would the warlock want with Aria in the
    first place? All evidence showed that Tyrell hated shifters.
    Therein lay the gist of the issue. A small part of Paris still feared
    for his mother, still hoped that she could be redeemed. Even after she
    had nearly killed him, he didn’t want her to die. Oh, he could never
    forgive her for what she’d done, but that didn’t change the fact that
    consorting with the warlock could easily get her killed.

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    “Jace, I need to go after her,” he said. “I don’t really understand it
    myself, but I have a feeling I will be needed.” Knowing he was being
    unfair, he gave Jace a pleading look. “Help me. You can do it. You
    can help me sneak out of the States and into Japan.”
    He came closer to Jace, half because he didn’t want anyone to
    overhear them and half because he simply craved Jace’s touch. “I’m
    not an idiot. I realize the risks. But I can protect myself just fine. I’m
    not a helpless pup.”
    “Sweetheart…” Jace took a deep breath, and Paris’s nostrils flared
    as he scented the werewolf’s arousal. The other man’s proximity
    roused Paris’s own beast, and he had the yearning to simply climb
    into Jace’s lap and rub against the other wolf’s cock. But then, Jace
    spoke again, and his words were like a bucket of ice water over
    Paris’s excitement. “We can’t do this,” Jace said. “I can’t do this. It’s
    not safe.”
    Paris moved away from Jace, recognizing the rebuff for what it
    was. Fine. No matter. Paris had always been on his own. He’d just
    have to make his way out of this without anyone’s help. He should
    have known that not even his mate would truly grasp what Paris was
    trying to say. In the end, they all thought he was nothing but a child,
    which must be the reason why Jace had made no move to touch him
    in the first place.
    “Fine,” he snapped at Jace. “I get it. I’m an idiot who doesn’t
    understand what’s right in front of his nose. And on that note, I’m just
    going to play with my action figures now. If you’ll excuse me.”
    He shot to his feet, ignoring Jace’s attempts to stop him. Perhaps
    he was being a selfish brat, but there was just so much going on. He’d
    had hopes that he would find a home, but pack members could be
    very unfair when hurt. In their eyes, Reed was one of their own, and
    their concern had manifested in trying to separate Paris’s father from
    his mate, but also in a general dismissive attitude toward Paris. He
    had told no one, not even his mate, about that, and he was glad he

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    hadn’t. In the end, they’d probably think he was whining when he had
    been the one saved from all the