Part 4
"So are you happy?"
This question came from Spencer's brother Trevyn. Spencer had been unsurprised to discover that Trevyn and Dylan had come into town while he had been gone on his first case as he had expected nothing else. His two brothers had already been in town for several days by the time he and the team had gotten home from Philadelphia and he had known this, because they had sent him constant text messages and they had been keeping in contact that way for the duration of his absence. His brothers had known the minute he had landed and he had told him that he would meet them anywhere they liked as he didn't know the city that well yet.
Sure he had all the maps of the area memorized, and he could get from point A to point B with no trouble, but he didn't have any favorite restaurants, or bar that matter since he's been in the area such a short time. Oh, sure, he'd been at the FBI Academy at Quantico, but it wasn't as if he had a car to go places on the weekends or friends that would agree to transport him. No in fact, the other cadets had resented him if not hated him, so he hadn't made any friends. He had done his best to be as inoffensive as possible.
Finally they had decided that this discussion was private to risk going to a public place and so they were sitting in his living room at his rented apartment, even if he hadn't spent much time here in the last few days.
"Yes, Trev I'm very happy," Spencer promised his brother. "Aaron completes me in every way. Believe me, he got downright furious when he heard about my childhood and how the pack didn't take any of us in like they should have. He was amazed that we had survived since as wolves are pack animals, which includes werewolves as well. His theory is it's only because we had each other, that we didn't just commit suicide."
"So do you believe this mate thing that Aaron told you about?" Dylan asked looking wistful.
"Yes, because the way my wolf reacted the minute I saw him...well, let's just say I had a hard time keeping control and not jumping his bones right there in his office. Aaron acted like it was the most natural thing in the world, but then he was raised within a pack and so he knew exactly what was happening, while I didn't."
"It seems a rather strange coincidence," Dylan said suspiciously. "You know how I usually feel about those."
"The same way all of us do," Spencer said, "but in this case, that's all it is, because a werewolf's mate can only be another werewolf."
"Which explains how dad was able to leave our mother and us too," Trevyn said.
"From what Aaron has told me in the last few days, Mack Burke was absolutely wrong to make us outcasts at seven years old, especially since we had committed no crimes. He has told me that nobody under 18 can be made an outcast and that it hasn't happened in the United States more than a few dozen times, not in centuries. If you had seen how angry he became you would not doubt his motives for a second. He was all for going up to Las Vegas and kill the Alpha in a fair straight fight and I believe he could do it to. I calmed him down though and asked that he not do anything at least for awhile."
"Your Aaron was going to do that for you?" asked Dylan in astonishment.
"For all three of us," Spencer corrected. "He said that what Mack did was wrong and was against werewolf laws and that if us wolves hadn't married humans we would've died out, since less than 40% ever find their mates and therefore, have pups. He said he knew the second he saw me that I was the one and since I'm good at reading body language, although I know I can refine the skill, I believe him. Despite the fact we didn't know each other more than a few hours before we completed the bond, I know he's trustworthy and he has promised to never lie to me about anything and I'm going to take that to the bank unless he proves that he's untrustworthy.
"I don't believe will ever happen because I know if we're ever parted on a permanent basis it would be like ripping half our souls away—for both of us. I will be the first to admit that we both still have a great deal to learn about each other, however, all the information I've been given in the last few days has told me many things and one of those is that werewolves who have found their mates never divorce or separate. They argue sometimes sure, just like all couples do, but they always make up afterwards with greater understanding of each other and don't let little differences come between them for long."
"I would really like to meet this Aaron Hotchner," Dylan said and Trevyn nodded in agreement
"Well, you're welcome to come back to his house with me, as he's looking forward to meeting you too, as I told him all about you," Spencer offered. "Of course, he didn't expect to meet you this soon, but I told him you would almost certainly come into town as soon as you learned of my relationship."
"Damn straight," Trevyn growled.
"We had to make sure that you weren't getting into something you couldn't handle, even though we realize that wasn't very likely. Still, we've been very protective of each other ever since we were seven years old and made outcasts from our own pack. We wouldn't have survived without each other, so your Aaron is right about that," Dylan said.
"Now that we know you're happy and believe me, we would be able to tell if you are lying or not, since you've never been very good at it, so we'll be happy to meet Aaron before we go back to our jobs," Trevyn said.
Trevyn was definitely the more aggressive one of his brothers, likely an Alpha wolf like Aaron, Spencer thought reflectively, while he preferred to be the peacemaker. Dylan, on the other hand, was the suspicious one and it took quite a lot to gain his trust. All three of them were alike in the way that if a person broke their trust none of them would ever trust that person again. The three of them were similar in many ways, but different to, which only made sense really, because while they were triplets, they were fraternal and not identical and a lot of identical twins were very similar in personality and sometimes fraternal ones were to, but not always.
"So how's the job going?" Dylan asked.
"Well, while being the mate of my boss was rather unexpected, things are going well. Unlike in high school and college all the team are intelligent and are willing to accept me for who I am and don't make fun of me or snide comments. At the moment I'm still on guard, but I'm making tentative friendships with all of them."
"Well, that's certainly a switch," Travis said with a wry grin
"We all know that children can be cruel to those that are more intelligent than they are and buck the status quo and even if we didn't mean to show off I know we did," Dylan commented, "although I will admit that you got the worst of it, Spence."
"That's in the past, but that's one of the reasons I've been so cautious with the team, because I don't want to make the mistake of trusting them until I'm certain that they are going to stab me in the back, well, all except for Aaron as he's the only one I trust. Aaron says I can trust them and I believe him, but still I'm being cautious until I'm sure."
"So why don't you tell us about your teammates?" Trevyn suggested.
"Well, there is Derek Morgan, a big black man," Spencer said. "He's our expert in sex crimes, particularly rape. I don't really know much about him beyond his specialty at the moment, but then I've only known him for a few days. I do not that he has two sisters, a mother and an aunt in Chicago, but other than that I really don't know anything at all. JJ or Jennifer Jareau is our media liaison, although she helps interview witnesses to. She's very pretty with light blond hair and big blue eyes, but also extremely intelligent just like everybody on the team. I probably could've got myself interested in her if Aaron hadn't gotten his paws on me first and now I wouldn't have it any other way. Then there is Jason Gideon, well I don't need to tell you about him since you met him back when we were going to college. The last member of the team well, besides, Aaron, is Penelope Garcia. She's the team's technical analyst and doesn't travel with us, as she stays behind and gives us all information to help us catch our unsub. She's a computer expert, and finds things that most people who know their way about computers likely couldn't. She's also blonde, but has brown eyes, instead of blue and instead of being slim like JJ she's bustier and bigger boned."
"And Aaron?" asked Dylan
"Aaron is a whole different story altogether," Spencer said with a decidedly goofy grin, as he thought about the man that had come to mean so much to him in the very short time they had known each other.
"Oh, our brother is in love," Trevyn said with a big grin.
"That has been obvious ever since he contacted us and told us about him," Dylan said. "Besides, you know that Spencer is too practical to get himself involved in a relationship unless he truly believes he's in love and as suspicious as I am I do know that he's too intelligent to get himself into a situation that would be dangerous, have his heart broken or possibly have him lose his position. I admit that I didn't expect to hear about him falling in love just a few days after he started his new job, but there is supposed to be such a thing as love at first sight, even if it doesn't happen very often. After all where would authors get their ideas from if it hadn't happened at least once somewhere in the world."
"Stop it you two," Spencer ordered them sternly and caused both his brothers to break into laughter.
"You always were to serious for your own good," Trevyn told his older brother. "I can understand it however, considering how hard our childhood was, but still you need to lighten up and hopefully, your Aaron can help with that."
Right on cue Spencer blushed a deep red causing his two brothers to laugh heartily at him.
"You are so easy to embarrass, big brother," Dylan teased him.
"And both of you take adverse pleasure in doing so," Spencer grumped back.
"Of course, we do we're your brothers and if anybody has a right tease you it's us," Trevyn said. "After all, none of us would have survived without each other."
"That's the truth," Dylan agreed a dark shadow crossing his face as he remembered that time where he hadn't been sure they would live to adulthood, but they had because of their intelligence. It had been all three of them that had decided that even though it went against their grain that picking pockets was the only way they were going to survive. Their father had left them absolutely nothing, and although the bills for the house utilities were automatically paid out of their mother's bank account from the money that she had made before she'd had to stop teaching, it still didn't put food on the table or clothes on their backs. They knew that although they were only seven years old that they couldn't afford to go to a foster home much less separate ones and so this had been the only way that they hadn't ended up on the street, although it bothered them to steal, but they hadn't really had any choice, if they wanted to survive. They had never taken more than 5 or 10 dollars from one person and most people didn't miss that amount, which was why they had gotten away with it for the six years before they went to college. They'd had quite the little racket going by the time they'd gone to college, but once they had started they had given it up without a second thought or a single qualm.
As soon as they had gone to college at 13 they had started tutoring since they were so intelligent and knew a great deal, about various subjects. Some of the older students were willing to accept tutoring from them in subjects that they were having difficulty with and that had brought in enough money for them to buy clothes and other necessaries. Of course, all three of them had learned quickly to always get the money in advance because some of the older students tried their best to get out of it without paying them and it didn't seem to matter that one of them was giving up their free time in order to help out, the older students who are 18 to 22 tried their best to cheat them. All three of them had had to prove again and again that they were nobodies fools, despite their young age.
"Those days are over," Spencer told his brother immediately guessing where Trevyn's thoughts were going. "Our father and Mack will get what's coming to them and if Aaron has his way he will be the instrument of that retribution. He truly believes that Mack broke pack law as he was raised properly for a werewolf pup and learned all the pack laws, our species history and traditions. I do believe that Aaron can handle our father although I'm not so sure about Mack, but it's likely that he can handle him to. I did make him promise however, that if our father had found his mate and especially if he had pups that he would teach our father a lesson, but not kill him."
"Personally, I think those pups would be better off with someone like us and not with their father considering that he already failed this pups once and just abandoned them without a second thought," Dylan snorted.
"Aaron agrees with you as he said something similar," Spencer admitted. "If that unlikely situation really occurs, then Aaron then I will deal with it when the time comes. Of course, he could've married a female werewolf that wasn't his mate and had more pups anyway, although Aaron says that doesn't happen too frequently. He said that if our kind hadn't married humans that we would've died out. Apparently, the blood gets too diluted after a few generations and while you might have a lot of the blood that allows the change, it is not enough to change shape into a werewolf. He said that you might feel the moon calling to you and perhaps, get headache when it's full and for a few days before and during, but that will be the only effects. Also he said that the reason that werewolves don't usually marry each other unless they are from different packs of course, is because of the risk of inbreeding. Most packs aren't that large and aren't more than 300 or 400 werewolves and about a third of those are children, so the risks of inbreeding is very high and in only a very few generations too."
"Yes, I see what you mean," Trevyn said slowly. "With that few people Aaron is right in saying that the risk of inbreeding would be extremely high. I'm sure a lot of the pack is related to each other in some way anyway whether that's cousins nieces and nephews, children or grandchildren."
"That's why Aaron said that it didn't make sense for Mack to throw us out of the pack just because our mother was human if that was really his reason or just an excuse," Spencer.
"It could have been because mom was so sick," Dylan offered. "I'm not saying that makes it right, just that it could've been his reason. The Alpha might have feared that we would come down with disease and the pack has no way to cope with someone who has schizophrenia. It's not like they could've left her in a rest home, because not only would that be very expensive I'm sure they wouldn't want to risk her talking about werewolves even if none of the doctors would believe her."
"I think Mack kind of jumped the gun to tell the truth because our mother might've had the disease it doesn't mean we would develop it and in fact the chances are very very slim," Dylan said.
"I would say so at only 13%," Trevyn snorted. "Now if our father had had it would've been around 50%, but since it was only our mother the chances of us getting it are nearly nonexistent."
Spencer let his two brothers talk and thought that he could sense even back then at the age of four that Mack hated them for some reason, but didn't say so out loud as he wasn't sure his brothers had sensed the same thing and there was no point of disturbing them further.
"So are you and Aaron going to get married?" asked Trevyn finally.
"Eventually yeah," Spencer admitted, "but right now we're keeping our relationship under wraps."
"Why?" asked Dylan immediately, "Aaron isn't ashamed of it is he?"
"You would never have suggested that once you get to know him," Spencer snorted causing Trevyn to grin. "Aaron, is an Alpha through and through and he would never be ashamed about admitting our relationship or displaying it in public. He's already made it clear if we didn't need to be so cautious that he would already be shouting it from the rooftops as he didn't expect to meet his mate, much less work with them. You see our situation at work is rather precarious at the moment."
"What do you mean by that?" Dylan asked immediately.
"Well, technically, it's discouraged for members of the same unit to get involved," Spencer explained, "and it doesn't help that Aaron, is technically, also my boss. Do you imagine I would be able to keep my job if we got involved in a relationship when I had just started? No, Aaron and I already talked about this and we agreed that we wouldn't start to display our feelings, except in private, until we had known each other for at least a year to two. Werewolves, aren't really the only ones that fall in love at first sight, as it happens very rarely to humans as well. Aaron and I don't want to create resentment among the team, or make them suspicious, as they're all highly intelligent people. Morgan for example would probably think that Aaron forced me into a relationship as he's the very suspicious type and I'm not looking forward to trying to explain to him when the time comes that our relationship is consensual. I believe he's already started to look at me as a little brother since he's the only boy in his family as he's certainly been very protective of me in the short time I've known him. I believe he thinks I'm totally innocent, at least when it comes to having sex and that he would've been right, at least if I hadn't met Aaron that is. I did meet him the same day I met Aaron and mated as Aaron calls it just hours later, so for a few hours after I knew him I was actually totally innocent, as he believes me to be. I believe that Garcia our technical analyst would be happy for us as she's a very romantic and upbeat type person and JJ would as well."
"What about Gideon?" asked Trevyn.
"Aaron believes that Gideon will never accept it as he's very old fashioned in some ways and he's never made a secret of the fact that he is disgusted by same-sex relationships," Spencer supplied.
"Oh, I can imagine the confrontation that will come when he finds out," Dylan said. "If he is as against same-sex relationships as you say..."
"What Aaron says," Spencer corrected, "but I trust his judgment, because he's known Jason Gideon far longer than any of us have."
"Alright then, according to what Aaron has said," Dylan corrected without missing a beat, "There is bound to be a confrontation of some sort a little bit farther down the line."
"Believe me, I know it, but in my admittedly short acquaintance I have come to the conclusion that while I can live without Gideon in my life, even if it will hurt me to lose him, but I cannot live without Aaron. If either one of you ever finds your mate whether that be male or female you will immediately know what I mean, trust me on that."
"That would be nice," Trevyn said wistfully. "It isn't too likely though as the odds are against it and I know you were just very lucky."
"Yeah, the likelihood of another one of us finding our mate, well they are astronomical," Dylan agreed. "If he or she exists the only way we'd ever find them is totally by accident just like you did."
"Whether or not you find your mate it doesn't mean that you shouldn't allow yourself to fall in love and get married," Spencer told his brothers. "Our kind does it all the time according to Aaron, I mean just look at our father."
"If I did that I would never abandon my wife or my pups the way he did," Dylan growled. "I'm not saying that any woman I chose to marry, that it wouldn't end up divorced eventually, but I'd try to prevent that from happening."
"So have you two joined the local packs where you two have chosen to live?" asked Spencer with a raised eyebrow. "We've always known that what the Alpha of the Las Vegas pack did to us wasn't right, as we knew enough about pack life by that time to know it was wrong, even if we had no say in the decision. I admit that we didn't know as much as we should have since we were only seven at the time, but most adults don't pay attention to children so long as they are quiet and we learned that from experience, didn't we?"
"Yeah, I remember those days before we were thrown out of the pack," Trevyn said with a nostalgic gleam in his eyes. "My memories are kind of dim since we were only seven, but I do remember quite a bit, but to answer your question yes, I have and the Alpha accepted me and I have begun making friends, although like you, Spence I'm being cautious, making sure that they really want to be my friend and aren't using me."
"Yeah, I remember just staying silent at the back of a crowd of werewolves and being able to pick up a lot different people's conversations," Dylan agreed. "We learned a lot, even if it was just bits and pieces because just as you said nobody pays attention to children so long as they are quiet and well-behaved and to answer your question Spencer like Trevyn yes, I've joined the local pack and often run with them on the full moon and have for the last year and a half or so."
"Good," Spencer approved, glad to know that his brother's experience with their own pack hadn't scarred them to where they avoided all werewolves, although they would have every right to be scared of encountering any of their kind considering how they had all been made outcasts at such a young age.
"I well remember how a lot of the pack buzzed angrily at the Alpha's pronouncement, but they weren't about to challenge him," Trevyn continued remembering. "Most of the them weren't fighters just ordinary people, even if they had the distinction of also being werewolves. Sure they would fight in order to protect their family, but for three pups that were not even related to them? No way. Despite their feelings the fact that they knew what the Alpha was doing was wrong they weren't willing to challenge him and from the perspective of years I can't really blame them. I bet you the pack in our old hometown would be astonished to know that we'd survived though."
"Almost certainly," Spencer agreed. "If Aaron has his way they will learn soon enough that we did survive."
"Would your mate really kill the Alpha of the pack?" asked Dylan tentatively.
"If it is still the same one that threw out 3 7 year olds for no reason then yes, he would. Aaron truly believes in justice and what Mack did was against werewolf laws. In most packs pups no matter their origins are revered, treasured and cared for. Children are apparently important to our species and taken care of by the entire pack or at least that's how it's supposed to work and does in most packs. Apparently, bad Alphas have been in charge of other packs before, although it hasn't happened very often as they are usually disposed in a very short amount of time."
"Would he really risk it being tracked back to him?" Trevyn asked.
"I wouldn't worry about that as Aaron told me exactly what they do with the body of a dead werewolf and let's just say that there isn't much chance of it ever being identified. The human part of me doesn't exactly approve, but the wolf in me definitely does. Wolves can be extremely violent and they don't take betrayal well, because they are supposed to be loyal to the pack and what Mack did broke that statute. Apparently, werewolf laws are extremely strict, especially when it comes to their pups and the only punishment is apparently death, well either that or being cast out of the pack like we were. It is the Alpha's responsibility to contact every pack and spread the word so that particular werewolf would not be welcome among any of our kind, which would also lead to their death eventually. Usually anyway. Some werewolves live a long time after they've been thrown out of their hometown pack and are not accepted in others no matter where they travel, since word would eventually spread. This punishment is never given without a reason and depending on circumstances..."
"But since our kind cannot be revealed to the human race, our laws are necessarily very strict," Dylan finished. "I can understand the werewolves point of view, I don't necessarily approve, but I can understand it."
"I don't necessarily approve either, but then if our father had taught us what we were supposed to know it probably wouldn't bother us so much," Spencer said shaking his head, "and we would likely just accept that it was part and parcel of being werewolves. Aaron is going to start training me in what I was supposed learn as a pup, tracking and hunting in the forest for example, also how to move silently and things like that. Aaron says that werewolf pups start out really young learning that kind of thing and that their natural instincts are gently reinforced as they grow. By the time they go away to college or at least are out on their own, well, let's just say they are at peace with both the wolf and the human part of themselves. However, because of that early childhood training most werewolves don't have trouble with either part of them and just accept certain things that a regular human would have trouble with, unless they were the vengeful sort."
"Blending both wolf and human, that's the way it should be," Trevyn said approvingly.
Dylan looked at Trevyn and he said, "Not all wolf traits are bad ones, for they are usually loyal to their pack and if they want to fight the Alpha of the pack they do it openly and not in an underhanded way. Of course, that's true wolves and while werewolves share many of the same traits, we are also human and capable of treachery and betrayal."
Dylan snorted at that.
"What does your Aaron going to do about our father who is just as culpable?" asked Dylan.
"It depends on the situation, as I told you earlier," Spencer said. "It's possible that Mack ordered him to leave us in the lurch like he did and if that's the case, then our father wouldn't have been able to resist his commands and he's not culpable at all. Aaron thinks that it's a very unlikely scenario, but admits that it's possible. If that's the case, Aaron won't do anything to him, because it wouldn't have been his fault since the Alpha's command is to be obeyed, no matter how bad an Alpha is. You know we overheard our father talking to mom when we were young and he told her that he was only a weak Beta not even a strong one, so there was no way that he could have resisted the leader of the pack command. However, Aaron believes that the most likely scenario was that our father abandoned us on his own free will and if that's what happened then Aaron will indeed give him what he deserves."
"You know, I can't say I'm sorry if our father is killed by your mate," Dylan said. "I know you're supposed to love your parents and I do miss mom a lot, even if she was off in her own little world most of the time and I know we share half his genes, but from what I can remember of him which are foggy at best he was never much of a father."
"No, he really wasn't," Spencer said remembering back when he was five or six quite clearly, thanks to his eidetic memory. "I'm not sure what his problem was, but he certainly didn't spend much time with his wife or his sons and from the perspective of years I wouldn't be surprised to find that he had a woman or two on the side."
Both Trevyn and Dylan winced at that, but nodded knowing it was very possible. They were no longer young children whom such information needed to be kept from them for their own good and they had definitely lost their innocence when they had been made outcasts for no reason.
"So have you and Aaron already moved in together?" asked Trevyn with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, that's why there's no food here and why the place is so bare as I'm essentially living over at his house. I'm only maintaining this place for appearances sake. Once we tell the team about our relationship in a year or two, I should be able to let it go."
"Well, it's a good thing because we couldn't discuss what we just talked about in public venue," Dylan said. "None of us might know as much about our species as we would like, but even somebody as young as we were know better than to go blurting out what we were as that just would have caused trouble we didn't need."
"Very true," Trevyn agreed, "though it likely would have been a different story if we had been normal seven year olds, instead of so intelligent. It not like our father ever conveyed the need for secrecy."
"There's a lot of things he didn't convey," Spencer snorted sounding unusually cynical. "He was hardly ever around, so I don't know how he could convey anything."
"Well, I suppose it's just as well that we were so intelligent then," Dylan said. "You know I would love to see our father's not to mention the pack's reaction that we survived with no help and no support."
"We had support," Trevyn disagreed, "we had each other."
"Alright, no adult support," Dylan corrected with a smile and his brother's direction.
"That's better and definitely more accurate," Trevyn said with a smile of his own.
"You and your need for accuracy," Dylan snorted.
"I happen to agree with Trevyn that accuracy is everything and in my job it pays to be as accurate as possible as that is what helps us catch our unsub," Spencer said.
Dylan rolled his eyes, but also smiled for it felt really good to just sit somewhere and talk with his brothers, which they hadn't had a chance to do in awhile, not since they had graduated college actually as they had been getting started in their careers for the last several years and hadn't had the money to travel much. The three of them hadn't had money for pleasure and barely for necessaries at times and had often gone hungry, but they had made it despite the hard times. Besides, they hadn't been about to ask for help as they would have had to explain their situation and since they had been underage at the time, well... not a good idea. Now that all three of them had careers of their own and they finally made some good money they would be visiting each other more often. It was nice to no longer have to worry about where their next meal was coming from.
"Why don't you let me call Aaron and I'll take you out to dinner," Spencer suggested. "You can ask him 20 questions while we are eating.
"Now would we really do that?" Dylan denied.
"Yes, you would," Spencer answered with a smile of his own. "I plan on doing the same you know if you ever decide to propose to another woman or even another man."
"As far as I know I like only woman," Trevyn said and Dylan nodded in agreement.
"I wasn't really interested in either sex, since I never had time to even think about it," Spencer admitted. "Who knows if I ever would've taken an interest in either sex at some point. I'm actually surprised any of us knows our sexual orientation considering our upbringing. Do you know that most pups are actually taught that it's okay like either sex since their mate can be either one?"
"Really?" asked Dylan in surprise.
"Really," Spencer said with a smile. "Of course, not all werewolves families teach this and it leads to some being very confused about their sexual orientation. Some werewolves apparently disbelieve in teaching this particular thing to their children just like humans do, except in a werewolf's case, that's kind of a bad idea since they do have Lifemates, while humans do not. Now a werewolf might never discover their Lifemate, but how do you know?"
"Which is why it's a good idea to teach our kind that it's okay to like both sexes," Trevyn said logically Spencer nodded.
"Many don't though," Spencer said. "There is still a lot of prejudice, even in the werewolf community where such thing as having a soulmate is quite common."
"I'm surprised you accepted it so easily," Dylan mentioned
"Aaron was nice enough to explain, and I had to agree once he did. He told me that if I had been raised in a pack like I should have been, we would've headed straight upstairs and that he wouldn't have bothered with an explanation because one wouldn't have been needed," Spencer said blushing a little. "However, he was nice enough to explain things to me as he immediately realized that I had no idea what was going on."
"Good, I'm going to enjoy getting to know your Aaron," Dylan said.
"You'll like him," Spencer promised, "but now I had better call him as we've been talking for hours and even if he knows where I am I don't want him to worry about me. I'm afraid he's a bit of a worrier at least where I am concerned and I'm sure he's sitting by the phone trying to pretend he's not concerned."
"That is so sweet," Trevyn said looking wistful.
"And romantic," Dylan added with a grin.
"Hey our bond and relationship is still new guys, and I promise I'll worry about him just as much as he does me when situation calls for it. For one of us to die now, well the other werewolf in question very rarely survives for long when that happens, even when it's old age and both of us are in a very dangerous profession."
"A point," Trevyn admitted somberly.
Spencer took out his phone and pushed speed dial as Aaron was already programed in and then headed to the bedroom and shut the door, not that his brothers wouldn't hear him talking with their excellent wolf hearing, but at least you gave him the illusion of privacy.
~~~The Alpha Werewolf and his Mate~~~