Several days had passed since the incident with Tallow and the three mates had been working on getting to know each other. They had actually realized fairly quickly that they knew very little about the others’ personal lives. Even Vincent and Bonnie kept some things from each other…such as the fact that he was a shifter. She easily forgave him for that, though, given the laws involving humans.

Still, if this mateship was going to work, they had to strip down the secrets. They ...