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 was human but Thaddeus was right we didn't need anymore mates and her leaving him alive would mean being tethered to him and he would come searching for that connection.

The man groans, still alive. His eyes dazedly looking up at Thaddeus.

"You want him?" Thaddeus asks me.

"Of course not" I told him, though I felt bad we had...