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I'm not wearing pants.
I jumped across the bed as Ripley slammed Rhaspe against the floor. He shrank until his disheveled human form laid on the ground. Ripley held him pinned by his shoulders. They remained like that for quite a while. During the calm, I looked over the room. Not much of the cabin had survived their fight. The bed appeared to be the one piece of furniture that hadn't been crushed.
"Ripley, please." Rhaspe's voice sounded so raw that it erased some of my own frustration. "Kill me. I don't want to go on without you."
His security detail remained stationed throughout the cabin. They didn't budge, even though he begged for death.
My mate shifted back, then stepped away from him. "And I care about you too much as a friend to do that. I know you're hurting right now, but
