“Well, I can see how it would help me, yes. But what about Alexei? Have you ever considered that we need our mates but they don’t need us?” Jay held up a finger when it seemed like Soren was going to interrupt him. “Not if they’re still human when we find them, that is. Alexei is completely, gloriously human. He doesn’t need a tether. He doesn’t need me. It would be selfish of me to take his humanity away to serve my own purpose.”
