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Corey

Copyright © 2013 by Toni Griffin

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Corey Toni

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Ethan sat at his desk in the office Ben had allocated for him. He'd been on the job for an entire week. The day after he'd interviewed for the position, Ethan had flown home to Newcastle and packed his things.

Making the decision to apply for the job had been easy. Ethan never thought in a million years he would actually get it. Deciding to accept and move halfway across the country was one of the scariest things he'd ever had to do. Seeing as how Ethan had grown up a child of the foster care system, he'd seen some pretty scary shit in his life.

It had taken Ethan a month to pack up his

apartment, serve out his notice at his job, and have everything moved to Atherton.

Ben had been nice enough to pay for his belongings to go into storage until he found a place to live. Ethan had just planned to find a place online and have his stuff shipped there so he could unpack when he arrived, but both Ben and Tommy had talked him out of it. Their main argument had been that you really needed to inspect the property personally, as you didn't want to be stuck in a place you hated because you'd signed the lease sight unseen.

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Ethan agreed reluctantly and for the last week, he'd been searching for something that was within his price range and suited his needs. He didn't have a great deal of stuff. Ethan had been kicked out of the last foster home the day he turned eighteen, as the Murphys would no longer be receiving a payment to take care of him.

He'd always known that day would come, Ethan had been passed through so many foster homes he'd long ago stopped counting. Ethan had been saving madly in preparation for when he was legally allowed to take care of himself. He'd gotten his first job when he was just fourteen—working at an ice cream parlour—and had held many more since. Every penny he'd gotten had been put away for that fateful day when he could be by himself—

without anyone trying to drag him back to yet another home where no one really cared if he lived or died.

Ben had been nice enough to him and offered the use of one of his spare rooms until Ethan found somewhere more permanent. The knowing grin Ben and Tommy both sported when they discussed this annoyed Ethan slightly. It was obvious the pair was keeping something from him but for the life of him, Ethan couldn't think what it might be.

After the way Tommy had acted when they'd first met, Ethan had been surprised the man was all right with him being in such close proximity to Ben any more than he

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absolutely had to. Tommy had been ready to rip his throat out when Ethan had walked out of Ben's office after his initial interview. Something had changed dramatically since then, but whatever it was, Ethan had been kept in the dark about it.

Ethan could remember something else he'd been kept in the dark over. He'd been shocked as shit when Ben had explained to him about the ability for male wolves to be able to fall pregnant. If it wasn't for the fact that Tommy was the size of a bloody house when he returned to Atherton, Ethan would probably still think the Penneath Alpha a little crazy.

There was no doubt about it though; Tommy was pregnant. This was obvious, not just by the basketball-sized lump in his belly but by everything else that went along with pregnancy.

Tommy had the widest ranging mood swings Ethan had ever seen. Ethan chuckled as he remembered one instance the previous Friday when he had been in Ben's office discussing one of the South Australian packs, when Tommy had walked in and started stripping off his clothes.

Ethan had been too shocked to move and had watched as Tommy sat in his mate's lap and had started to ravage the man.

Just when Ethan had gotten his senses back and

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stood to leave Tommy had burst out into tears and started to weakly hit Ben in the chest. Ben tried to soothe his emotional mate and Ethan had bolted, wanting out of there as fast as possible.

Ethan knew seeing the Alpha mate like this wasn't exactly ideal, but it gave Ethan a great deal of insight into what a relationship based on love and friendship looked like. He'd never had anything even remotely close to what the Alpha pair had but God, Ethan wanted it badly.

He didn't know if he wanted the kids, the swollen feet, mood swings, and weird-ass cravings at all times of the day or night, but the love of a man who stood by him, no matter what? Yeah he wanted that.

Now he just had to find his mate, and the chances of that happening here in Atherton were probably not that high. Ethan was only twenty-four, but after an entire life with no one to love him, Ethan was ready for more. He figured if he stuck it out here for a couple of years working for Ben then he could move on and start his search for the man fated to be his, and with his mate, hopefully he would finally get the home he'd never had growing up.

A knock on his office door brought Ethan back to the present and what he was supposed to be doing.

"Come in," he called out.

Tommy opened the door and took a couple of steps

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