Chapter 40

Take me away?

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I think I’m just surprised to see you.” I still don’t know how he even knew to find me here. I haven’t seen this man or spoken to him in years. “What do you mean, ‘take me away?”” I ask.

He shrugs. “I’m thinking you might want to not be fought over like a scrap of meat for a while.”

He’s strong and handsome, and, I suspect, very accustomed to getting what he wants, at least from females. “But why? Why

me?”

lopsided and amused. “You have to know that I always had a crush

What? No.

absolutely news to me.

ted that I was…drawn to you. It’s why you haven’t seen me at his pack in recent years. It

keeping up with all of this. And seeing you out of

I’ve shared too much, I think.” He grins again. “But I’m not shy. And I know he never

lot, but those visits stopped shortly

used to hang out and be a fixture within our

about what happened at

timing, I guess. Or at least why he might seek me out. But I’m still not clear on how he

what do you say, want to break out of here for a

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