Alden Alden sighed as he watched Bjorn leave. While he was glad that he and Arabella had finally accepted the rather obvious mating bond between them, he also felt a little jealous. Not because Bjorn had caught Arabella herself, though she was an attractive, if somewhat formidable woman. Rather, it was what they shared that made him feel that way. It was the same feeling that he’d thought he shared with Janelle, before she’d left him. He’d thought that he’d been lucky enough to find his mate while he was still a teenager, but time had soon shown him just how wrong he was. Alden pushed a hand over his face, frustrated by the direction his thoughts had taken. It’d been years since he’d thought of Janelle. And his frustration was only increased by the fact that he needed to call Rory. Not o

