Rafe He’d, bleary-eyed, read Luci’s text from his bed, frowned a little at it and answered it without much thought; he was still half a sleep “No.” then he’d closed his eyes to go back to sleep, only to have it actually register what that question truly meant. It dawned on him that if she was asking that very question of him, that there had to be a reason for her to do so. A mating alliance? There was one on the table for her right at that very minute. He sat bolt up right and snatched his phone from the bedside table, and texted her back to find out just what was going on. “What is it?” Jack muttered, woken by Rafe’s worried and concerned thoughts. “Luci, is being mated off again.” He muttered. “What the f**k!” Jack snapped, waking up fully now, and was getting out of the bed himself

