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keep sending females to my house, Father.  The one before this one wouldn’t leave, and I had to trick her to get her out of my bed.”
    His father shook his head.  “When I was a young male, burying my cock into willing female flesh was considered a good time.”
    He snorted, refusing to allow thoughts of his father plowing willing female flesh to take root in his brain.  “I don’t want the sort of females she keeps sending to me.  They’re thin as rails, stuck up, and only interested in me because of my status in the military.”
    “So you’d prefer a chubby fae for your bride, then?”  His father chuckled.
    Crimson stifled a growl.  The beast part of him didn’t appreciate the random females that kept showing up.  His wolf wanted to find its mate, and each full moon that passed made him more irritable.
    “I don’t care what my bride is.  Don’t you think that if my female were a fae that I would have found her by now?  I’ve been all over the realm with the military.  My beast is driving me insane.  He doesn’t want anyone but his mate, and I’ll be damned if I can find her.”  He’d long ago lost the urge to just find a random female and have fun for a few hours.  The shallowness of random sex had definitely lost its appeal.
    His father hummed.  “You’re twenty-six, Crimson.  You should have mated in your twenty-fifth year.  It reflects poorly on your mother that you haven’t taken a bride yet.”  He paused and settled the weight of his dark eyes on Crimson.  “If you won’t mate one of the females that your mother has sent to you, then you know what you have to do.”
    He’d been so busy striving to live up to his father’s awe-inspiring reputation in the military that he hadn’t really focused on mating.  He’d always had one more battle he wanted to win, one more rank to attain.  But if he didn’t do something, then his mother was going to continue to send females to him or, worse…she might try to force him into an arranged marriage.  Mothers less insistent than his had succeeded in trapping their sons into marriages they had arranged.  Judging by the females his mother kept sending to him, she was hoping he would mate with a highbred female so she would be elevated in status as well.  She meant well enough, he was sure, but she was hoping for the best for herself, too.
    Nodding, he said, “I need to spell for my truemate.”
    His father nodded.  “You have no choice. Your mother will continue to try to find a suitable bride for you, the same way that my mother did.  However, I was lucky enough to find my mate within the first few months of her interference.”
    “The practice of the mother choosing the bride for her son is ridiculous.  How can she possibly know what I want in a female?”
    He smiled.  “She doesn’t, and that’s why you have to take the choice away from her.  If you don’t spell for your truemate, then I’m afraid she may go so far as to try to force you into a mating.  I would stop her if I could, but you know how determined your mother can be.”
    Nodding, Crimson stood up.  “I’ll do it on the next full moon.”
    “I wish you luck in finding your mate, son.”
    Crimson closed the doors behind him and hurried to his home.  If he was going to spell for his truemate, then he had several things to get done first, the least of which was getting his house cleaned and finding a way to get his mother off his back while he made his plans to find his mate.
     
     

 
     
     
    Chapter 4
     
    The day after the full moon, Lindy went to work, plastering a smile on her face and chatting brightly with customers.  She might look as though she was having a good day, but inside she was a wreck.  She hadn’t slept well once she got home after the full moon hunt.  The insults she had suffered had lobbed around in her brain like tennis balls.  It wasn’t as if she didn’t know she had a reputation within the pack.  She had made the choice