Crescent Camp Outskirts

Cas felt like a ball of wool—stretched, rolled out, frayed, and tossed about. His *emotions* felt like that.

He knew Mingan and Shani currently felt the same in their own way, for their own reasons. One of those reasons was suddenly him.

In truth, he had little experience with females when it came to close relationships. He mated with Ara when he was eighteen and she was nineteen, and she was the only one he needed. She had been his fated ...