“I’ve been here before. Plus, I have the unfortunate circumstance of hearing it all.”
I tried to clear my mind.La-la-la, there’s nothing to hear. La-la-la
“That’s really annoying, Monte. I’m only trying to help.”
“I don’t want your help,” I snapped. “You can’t fix this.”
I didn’t even want to think about it. A mate? Dammit, this was a nightmare.
“Well, turns out she’s not so sure she wants you either,” Jax said.
“What? Stop listening in on her thoughts. Or at least have the decency to keep them to yourself.”
“So I shouldn’t tell you that she just left?”
“Left?”
It took me a moment to realize what he was talking about.
I ran back to my room and burst through the door. She was gone. One of my drawers was opened and her scent lingered everywhere. Not quite the scent of her wolf, buther. And my bedroom window was open.
“Seriously?”
I could only imagine she was having second thoughts about me too.
My instinct said to follow her, but she was literally running into a den of wolves, and I didn’t trust myself to handle seeing her surrounded by unmated males. Just thinking about it had my body shaking and hair sprouting up my arms.
This is bad. Real bad.
There was only one thing I could think of doing. I gathered my gear, loaded up my car, and got as far away from Zoey Rey as possible.
Denny could punish me later, but I knew what I had to do despite the repercussions. Luckily it was Friday night, so I had the whole weekend to pull it together, and the best way to do that was to get lost in the most remote place possible.
I knew just the place.
Zoey
Chapter 6
It wasn’t the first time I’d had to sneak into my own room. And at least as president I no longer had to share it with anyone.
I pushed the screen and window up before climbing inside wearing a T-shirt two sizes too big on me and a pair of drawstring workout shorts that tightened enough that they didn’t fall off during my escape.
Maybe it was the cowardly thing to do, but I just wasn’t ready to face him.
Physically I was recovered from my near-death experience, but emotionally I was even worse off now after spending time with him, even if it was in my fur.
Monte.
Not only did I have a name to go with that face, but I’d seen more of him than I bargained for tonight. He’d shifted and strutted around in his birthday suit like it had been no big deal. And I got it—nudity was no big deal among shifters. But hot damn!
I’d never seen a male sculpted like that before, at least not in real life. He’d been handsome enough in his suit, though if I were being honest, he probably wouldn’t have stood out to me if my inner wolf hadn’t been losing her shit and screaming “Mine” in my head. So, I hadn’t been prepared to really see what lay beneath those clothes. And now I feared I’d see nothing else every time I looked at him or even just when I closed my eyes.
It did make me wonder where the hell he worked out to earn abs like that.
My mouth watered at the thought.
Pull it together, Zoey.
