After the get-together, Crane and Seb are finally done with the dishes. They join their other cousins for another round of drinks and chat in the pack house’s backyard lounging area.
They told Joaquin stories of Shanaia when they were young. Even the embarrassing ones which made Shanaia want to crawl in a hole, for Joaquin, they were precious.
He just held her hand, kissing it from time to time.
“Don’t you miss your partners while you are here?” Joaquin asked them.
“We do,” Zander answered.
“Being away with our mate is too much but we have to tell ourselves over and over again that they also have their lives to live,” Zari spoke.
“I had no choice but to leave mine in the meantime because he still has a report, he needs to turn over tonight. He is a police officer, by the way, and he’
