“The question I’d like to start with is, how man girends on hafranite have an


    “I’ve had three girlfriends but wily one wat gemaine


    “What makes you feel that way? That only one of the rtionship was rest?


    He sighs hard telling me he really doesn’t want to open up about it so I decide to add an exnation to any time


    “I’m trying to use this as a distraction. We can tell by the changes in your voice when something bes dereferralde,


    *So this has be more of a you ask and I answer”


    “It’s not fair but I do need to know the extent of your rtionships with these three women. How they started? Rey long tury brand ne you got with them?*


    “I already told you I haven’t done anything sexually with anyone.”


    He has a clipped tone showing his embarrassment and annoyance with the questions.


    “I understand that most werewolves start having sex around sixteen or after their first shift and most only wait that long bead of thews of the par? but there are plenty of werewolves that are not yers as well. We are very sexual creatures and it’s not at all umon, especially for the mules, to had multiple partners before finding their fated mate. How about 1 level with you a little as I don’t feel that being a virgin at your are is something ashamed of.”


    “Okay. I’ll bite.”


    He sounds hesitant but a bit more rxed.


    “I’m the youngest of four. I have a sister and two brothers born before me, none were twins. All three of them started having sex by or before sixteen s my brothers were quite the yers. Being the alpha’s kids had the unintended perk of every she-wolf wanting a piece of the action. I guess it meast something to brag about, losing your virginity to the alpha’s son in high school. While my brothers eagerly took advantage of the throngs of the wires that threw themselves at them, I couldn’t stand how vapid and shallow their rtionships were.


    My father was shocked when I waited until I was sixteen to even start dating. I had a lot of rtionships thatsted a few months here and there but nothing that was fulfilling in any way. The girls that I stayed with the longest tended to push me faster than what I was interested in going and eventually left me when I refused to move beyond third base.


    I found my fated mate at eighteen. She was sixteen and not ready for a sexual rtionship when we met so we waited. She was eighteen when we did the mates union ceremony and it took another year after that before she thought she wasfortable withpleting the mates bond. She was neen and I was twenty-one.”


    “I’m sorry to interrupt but I never knew that about you Dem. Lillian was your first?”


    Ang seems surprised with what I was willing to share with a newbie who’s only been here two days. I look where Cole’s neck meets his corbone. Ang has the blue sterile barrier sitting across his shoulder. She had already made arge incision horizontally across the abscess and is using the vacuum punp to clear the pus and blood from it.


    “Are you doing okay, Cole?”


    “Yes sir. I’m keeping my eyes closed because it’s hard enough to hear all the tools being used. I don’t think I can handle seeing it.”


    “That’s alright. I can only see it when it’s not me under the knife.”


    “You really were a virgin until twenty-one?”


    “I wasn’t aplete virgin Cole. Which is why I told you about me. I went out with about a dozen girls over two years and made it to third base with, the five that I felt something a bit deeper with but I never went home because I felt that was something special. It was something only my fund was deserving


    of and I was willing to wait until I was twenty-five before allowing myself the freedom of going all the way with someone random.”


    “Alpha, could you exin something to me?”


    “Anything you want. Completely confidential within very specific limits.”


    “I’ve heard talk about bases before in dating but I was ridiculed when I asked so I just let the girls I dated say whatever they wanted. I didn’tte’s the because I didn’t know what they were talking about. Some nasty ruinors started in addition to the pedophile ones so I stepped even trying to date le eighteen.”


    I nce over to Ang, catching her gaze. I’m certain the disbelief I see in her eyes mirror that of my own. The picture that’s being painted of this yours man’s life just seems so sad and alone.