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Ignoring me, Leif leaned his elbows on his knees. “My reasons for being here aren’t typical. It’s all because of my blood test. You see, I was really looking forward to finding my fated mate. I did the test as soon as I was old enough. The problem was, I was matched with this female shifter in another pack. She was terrible. Like an absolute disaster of a person. I refused the mating.”

“That’s not weird to me,” I said. “If I had to do it again, I’d probably refuse my douchebag of a fated mate, too.”

Zoe sighed in exasperation. Leif chuckled and looked at her. “Is she always this oblivious?”

“On most things?” Zoe said, “No. I think her head’s a bit out of the game at the moment. The show’s got her so stressed, she can’t think straight.”

Heat crept up my neck. “Can you two please remember that I’m in the room with you? What the hell are you talking about?”

“I was hoping,” Leif said, “that instead of a female shifter, the blood test would pair me with a certain gorgeous male shifter. One