Chapter 9. STEPHEN GLANCED TOWARDS the bedroom door where he knew Brad slept. He tried to pull his mind back to the conversation at hand, but there was nothing he could do to fight the need clawing at him. Teagan was pissing him off, and the crappy gossip his friends were dishing up was starting to annoy him, too. When had his life become so tiresome? He glared towards the door again. Since Brad came into your life. A growl cut through his throat and he shook his brain free of the thought. Once Brad left again, everything would go back to normal. Hopefully. He wasn’t sure how he was going to cope knowing that his mate was never going to show up now. None of the cute little Omega females were suddenly going to develop his mark. That dream was gone, crushed. Under the giant foot of

