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still in exile and will continue to live that way. I can t ask you& 
 You re not asking. You re telling me. She licked her dry lips.  And I m telling you,
I m with you. All the way, as your mate.
 I can t ask you& 
She interrupted again. Moved her hand up to his face.  I need to be with you. On
Settler s Mine.
 But you won t have a pack. I ll be consigning you to the existence that Putney talked
about. No pack.
The time had come to be honest with him. To tell him of her past. And why it didn t
exactly turn her off to be living without a pack.  Clyde, when you came here, I lied to you.
Well, not really&  She bit her lip. How would he take this bit of news?
He leaned back, taking a quick check of his thigh. The blood hadn t soaked through the
bandage. A good sign. She sat back, relieved as he said,  Oh?
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 I m not a whore. Not really. Maybe technically. But not on the whole&  She kept
babbling until he interrupted her.
 I know.
 You know? That I wasn t a whore?
 Well, I suspected. His teeth showed with his smile.  You didn t act like a whore.
With me. He touched her hand and then released it.  Even as I tried to believe it after we
had sex, I couldn t.
 Oh. She moved her arms around herself and sat on her haunches.  I m a Beta. To a
Colington pack. She couldn t help but be nervous. She wasn t an Alpha female. Alphas
generally went with Alphas and Betas with Betas. That was the way of her pack. Though the
Alpha and Beta males would fuck anything that was female to see if they were mates and to
assuage their heat.
 Why are you so far away from home? Did you run from them?
She nodded.  I felt like a whore, always being used. And the head Alpha female and I
didn t get along. I m& a little outspoken for a Beta. If he d gone to his pack and taken her, it
would have caused problems. The Alpha females would have constantly challenged her
position as the head Alpha s woman. Because of her Beta rank. She would have lived
constantly fighting to keep her position. For Clyde, it would have been worth it though.
He snickered. Didn t look apologetic at all when she glared at him.  I hadn t noticed.
Like when a male tells you to go and you refuse.
She lifted her brows at him.  Hush. She swallowed.  And the men couldn t fathom
why I d be so& dead in bed. She d wanted them to dominate her, but they hadn t. She
looked him full-on in the face.  You re the first person to get me. And like me. I m tired of
pack politics, too. I m tired of all the games. I want to be with you, not because of that, but
knowing that you re tired too means something. We re at the same place.
He didn t say anything.
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She waited. What would his verdict be? Would he reject her? Send her back to her
pack? Surely not. He had to understand her reasons.
 Guess we re a match made in heaven.
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Chapter Eleven
That settled that. It was all done and they were headed home. Except nothing in life
could ever be that easy.
It was as they pulled off the planet that Clyde said,  Hold on. We ve got company. He
turned the shuttle to the side to evade a shot that went over the bow.
 Mercurior. Damn his hide. Clyde grumbled as he worked on the controls, keeping
them shimmying around Mercurior s shots.
 Who is that?
He barely spared her a glance.  Another bounty hunter. The words spit out of his
mouth. Not someone that Clyde was fond of.  A Quatarian.
Angelica strapped herself in and held on to her knees. They d been almost free. Why
wouldn t the man leave him alone? After all, the hunt for Clyde would probably be called off
soon. Of course the bounty hunter didn t know that. All he knew was the desire for his
money.
Clyde shot her a look.  We re going to be fine.
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She looked into his simmering eyes.  I know that. Her heart jumped. With Clyde,
everything would be fine. She nodded at him to tell him she believed him.  Focus on the
shuttle.
He turned back around and tapped the controls.  Least he s not a good pilot. He
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