Orion POV
Thaddeus starts picking up bodies, making me look at him as he shakes them.
“What are you doing?” I ask him.
“We already have four in the bed. Do you feel like adding a fifth?” He asks, looking at me.
He picks up a man in his early thirties, he is human, but Thaddeus is right. We don't need any more mates, and her leaving him alive will mean being tethered to him, and he will come searching for that connection. The man groans, still alive. His eyes dazedly look up at Thaddeus.
“You want him?” Thaddeus asks me.
“Of course not,” I tell him, though I feel bad we have to kill him.
“Ready?” He asks me.
“Just do it,” I tell him, looking away right as I hear his neck snap.
A painful shiver rushes over my body from the bond-breaking; thank God she only just marked him and h
