NovelEnglishChapter One Hundred-Sixty-Seven
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“What are you saying? 1 ask, reaching out to lift his chin and mindig lots stand heaven her kes
She smiles and my chest fotters. My gundian, the whispers, has eyedpropping from my toyand tacked om?
in
As | watch her, my mind reals, | think an Old foralling in on the shes the parking lot and the man he get dried
|
Inne she saw my Rings in the house. Does th
Thraven told you,” | say as softly as | can. Not sure how | feel about that
She nods, and 1 regard her carefully. “She did.”
She shrugs, | don’t know how to answer that. Everything, | guess, and your pack and what you are. | probably
about you if | hadn't already been thinking - well hoping that it could be true.
“Hoping? I'm almost afraid to ask.
Yes.” She blushes, biting her lip and makingwant to kiss her. “When | woke up with your ripped
neck, it was hard to explain away what I'd seen you do and thats when the fantasies started rolling i
“Fantasier, huh?” 1 Lick my lips thinking we should get to the bar so that we can play out a fe
Yeah, don’t you know? Werewolves are hot.”
| laugh, stepping closer to her.
She also toldwhy you bit me. She says that Im your mate and that when she cuts off, tears slipping from
back a sob and her beautiful face pinkers. | reach out and take her hand, squeezing genth. “When | told you that
you had you panicked.” She pauses, shedding a few tears and | nod, shaking off the memory of what | bit that
morning. Her emotion when she speaks next. “She says that I'm the one you are meant to be with
“Yes. Did you get my note?” | ask gently.
“1 did,” she says. “I have it in my b
back pocket and it makes way more seme
e now than it did at
“I'm sorry | didn’t tell you about Angle, | know it hurt you to find out the way you did. But | was afraid that if |
told you, you wouldn
She nods. “Draven said that you married that... wumut because you never wanted to find your mate ”
“Angle,” | say, kneeling in front of her so that | can look up into her eyes. “Her nis Ang
*| know her name, | just don’t want to say it, she snaps, rolling her eyes
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Chocking, stretch forward, Teining my head against her shins. “I heard she showed up at the bar last night. Did
she upset you?”
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Fella strokes her fingers through it and | groan, loving her hands onin any way.
Not as much as the pissedoff.” Felix says. “She kept callinga whore, that was about it.”
(I'm angry. | get that Angle is upset, | do. But calling someone a where that had no idea | was married is not fair.
If anyone is the whore,
Im sorry about that, sweetheart.” | say, stroking my hands up and down her calves.
asks suddenly.
That you
nted to find me?”
whispers and | can hear her trying not to cry.
| leap to my feet and pull her toward me. “It’s not the way that it sounds, but yeah. It's true, | never wanted to
find my mate. But | didn’t
“And then | show up.” he sight. “Ruining everything
“Hey! Not” | grab her head in both of my hands and lean in to kiss her Eps. | didn’t love Angie. | was never going
to. She may not understand that now, but hopefully one day the will. What | did by manying her while knowing |
would never love her, was wrong. Now the has the chance to find someone who does. It was selfish ofto do
that. So you ruined nothing.”
“So then, when did you realize | was your mate?
1 grin, kissing her again, this tmore intimately, | was watching a video of the shooting so that | could check
out the guys I'd be looking for and | saw you on the tape. | didn’t know you were my mate yet, but | probably
should have. All | knew was that there was an extremely beautiful girl whose boyfriend shot up the club and |
headed for you instead of him. But the moment | stepped onto your floor at the hospital, | scented you and as
much as | always said | never wanted to find you, no one could have stoppedfrom walking into
our rooms that day. | told myself | just had to see you. At least once.”
So you knew right
asks, shocked. “Then you hadarrested. She frowns and | once again feel like an ass.
To be honest, | think | subconsciously was trying to keep you near me, Even though having you close only made
| couldnt help myself.” | pull her out of the car and into my arms, holding her againstas | dip my nose into
her hair. “It’s true, never wanted my But | never wanted her because | was afraid of losing her. At the time, |
thought | was bring smart by marrying Angle. | thought if | already had a wife, that if my mate ever showed up, |
could just walk away. But then, | met you and... | just couldn’t. In fact, that night you toldthat Antman would
cfor Hector and then for you. | uh- well...”
ar?” she pulls back, looking up at me.
1
| may or may not have chased him through the woods as something other than a human,” | admit, squirting. “I
looked at it as solidifying your freedom. And then of course | caught him and ripped him apart with my teeth.
“Seriously? You chased dhim, as a wolf?”
Her eyes sparkle and the constriction around my heart eases a bit. “I had a dream about you and him in the
woods. He was dead in my
dream
shrug. “Ya know, the woods can be a treacherous place. Anything might have happened to him.”
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She giggles. “I would have loved to
see that! Then with a suspicious
smile, she adds, idole
heard hoping thane nt you?
Thats ‘why you cback with your
buttons crooked. And to think | was
all heartbroken because | thought
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“I know you did,” 1 admit, placing her back in the car. “And | let you think that because | thought it was
adorable.”
She sticks her tongue out atand | close the door. Once in the drivers seat, | start the car and decide to go
ahead and pop a couple of questions. “So, | cto your rescue last night, huh? Was | the big hero?”
You don’t remember?”
“No... it’s a long story t that I'll definitely tell you later. But two, none of us knows what we did last night.”
That's crazy. But... you knew me. You tried to protect me.”
| smile, pulling away from the curb to head for the har. “I was hoping | would. I'm glad that I did.”
Her eyes go dark for a moment.
Antman shot you six times,” she
shuilders. “I thought you were going
to die. You were hurt, and | thre
myself over the top éfdu When
Edel he) to finish you off, that's
when the rest of your pack appeared.
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They dragged him into th trees. It
was actually pretty scary.” Then she
smiles as if something has just
occurred to her. Tm free. | can go to
bed in the middle of LA. and not have
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“Well, | wouldn't say you were free. You're not...”
She quirks an eyebrows. “How do you figure?”
| have to laugh, Letting my eyes roam
over her body suggestively. “l mean...
it's true... | still have to file for diygrce,
then findapothe house then buy the
perfect ring but... in the eyes of a
Shifter, that mark on your neck says
that you're already married,
sweetheart. So no, you're not free.
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“Oh?” she teases.
“Ols,” | say, losing my smile as we pull close to the bar to find Bart outside in front of a busted front window,
“Shit. Did you lock the doors
when you left last night?”
She nods. 1 set the automatic deadbolt like he showed me.”
I roll down the window and pull up next to Bart. “Again?”
He nods. “Yup. Sold deal. Nothing taken, everything busted.”
| turn to Felix, “Thank God you left last night”
“Is it safe to stay here?” she asks, shuddering.
“It will be. Because I'll be staying here with you.”
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