CHAPTER 37
Seeing Declan that day made my heart ache all over once again. I wanted so much to stop my car and get out, just to throw myself into his arms, but I knew better. It was enough that he came back to see me once more before I left. Not that I know that that’s the reason he returned, but I like to think it was.
Since that day. I’ve thrown myself into pack business and training once again. There are rumors of another pack attacking other packs in search of this legendary Dire wolf once again. Wasn’t one psychotic pack enough? Now we have to deal with it all over again? The only positive thing about this news is that this pack is in the Midwest and nowhere close to the Eastern side of the states, but we can never be too careful.
It’s been a few weeks since I was at the Storm River pack, and so it’s been a few weeks since the Alpha of that pack became a father. Gavin still visits and we’ve become really close, but it annoys me that he insists on keeping me updated on his cousin’s fatherhood progress. I don’t think he means anything by it, but it still irks me.
Gavin is here visiting with me today, and as we take our usual walk around the border, he surprises me by taking my hand in his. I don’t say anything, and I don’t pull away. It actually feels nice. We walk mostly in silence after he takes my hand, but when we come to the clearing by the lake, he stops and turns to me.
“Quinn, you know how I’ve felt about you since day one,” he begins and I go to cut him off, but he stops me, “Please, just let me say what I want to say and then you can turn me down all you want.” He smiles sadly.
That’s what I like about Gavin, he never took offense of me turning him down in the beginning, and he has remained a true friend to me. I don’t know what Declan has against his cousin, but all I see is a true gentleman and a great friend, so I nod and let him continue.
“Like I was saying, you’ve known how I’ve felt, and I know you were waiting for your mate, so I stepped aside and became your friend instead.” He stares down at my hand in his and runs his thumb back and forth over the top of it before returning his gaze back to me, “It’s been almost a year, and you still haven’t found your mate; most she-wolves find them shortly after. Have you ever thought that maybe you are that minority that the Goddess Selene left to choose their own?
I don’t think of it as that way, just that I was forgotten, but what Gavin says makes sense. I grin, “I never thought of it that way, but still, what if my mate is too busy leading a pack or helping to run one?” Usually, Alpha females are either fated to an Alpha or a Beta with Alpha blood in them, “They may just be too busy to come looking for me.”
“Do you honestly believe that. Quinn?”
My grin fades, I cannot lie to him, so I shake my head, “No, Gavin, I don’t.” It’s my turn to study our hands now, but he lifts my chin back up.
Before I know it, his lips are lightly pressed against mine. They aren’t demanding, only testing, maybe to see what I would do. The thing is, I’ m not sure what I want to do. I know I can’t have who I want, but I know that I am becoming lonely. Do I take a chance with Gavin?
When I don’t push him away, he brings his hand up to cup my face and licks the seam of my lips. Hesitantly, I open my mouth for him, slowly, and his tongue pushes through just as slow. He’s not pushy at all, and because of that, I open myself up to him a bit more.
*his shirt in my hand, I kiss him back. He doesn’t try to take any more than I’m willing to give, and all too soon, he’s pulling away. I open my eyes and stare into his green ones as he looks down at me. His eyes are full of lust, but he keeps himself in check.
you doing, woman?’ My
I’m doing?’ I ask with an inward
to me as though my human counterpart is
would you have me do, Tala? Have us live
to go get our
who would that
I am referring to!’ My
not going to be a homewrecker, Tala! Lila has
to go around kissing every male that you come
the second male that I have kissed! Besides, I thought
when I thought
have sex with him, just in case our mate does come along, but I’m not going to stand
you want anyway. I’ll just take a back seat and watch as you * up.’ Tala then turns
Wolves, I
of a middle finger before she blocks
my waist and pull me closer, but he still isn’t demanding. I’m
than I thought it would.” He
my head, “What
I thought I was going to get
“I’m in a generous mood.” I wink and then take
for you to have dinner with me tomorrow?”
giggle at the adorable way that his cheeks
That’s okay, we can remain
him, “I mean no, it’s not too
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