With a groan, as if he could not hold off a second longer, he pulled her into his arms, and the singing rightness and power of the connection between them made her gasp.
“I would do anything for you,” Mateo said into her hair. “I don’t know when you’re going to accept that.”
“But your pack, your company. Your big crazy building!”
He pulled back with a jerk, and she flinched.
“How did you know it was mine?”
“I Saw it.”
He shook his head. “Tell me you’re not here because a vision said you were already here. Tell me you came here for me, that you made this choice.”
“I made the choice. I did need a little help finding the building. That’s all. I love you,” she added because she could not not say it and because it seemed like he really needed to hear it.
In a moment, she was crushed against him.
She let out a wheezing gasp. “Air!”
He wrenched his arms away. “Sorry!”
“But it still doesn’t change the fact you can’t come to Colorado!” she said.
“My pack is fine because it was never my pack.”
“What?”
“Long story. Will explain later. And I’ve hated my company pretty much since the day I founded it. I’m still working there. It just has new management. I am the Chief Shit Stirrer, now.”
“That’s your title?”
“No, I think it’s the development officer or something, but that’s what Tori called it.”
She didn’t think the day could get any more shocking. “Tori? My Tori?”
“Yes, your sister is going to run the company with the wolf that she fell in love with.”
“You’re letting a witch run your company.”
“No, I’m letting Tori Griffin run my company. You are not allowed to run the company. The twins are definitely not allowed anywhere near New York in general.”
She laughed, feeling a bubble of joy for her sister and grief that she would be so far away. She froze. She was already thinking of New York as far away when she stood in the beating heart of it.
“I can’t ask you to come back,” she whispered.
“You came all the way here. You would really stay?”
“Well, there’s this funny phenomenon where you cut ties to your family and quit your job and move out of your house, and then there’s nothing left for you.”
“How do you feel about a new house in Colorado?”
She shuddered, visions of the Double Thirteen house flitting through her head. She knew her impressions were colored by abject terror at the time, and she should really give the place a fighting chance.
“Not there.” He shook his head with a knowing grin.
She squinted at him. “Oh, now you can read my mind?”
“I can guess. How would you feel about a new house?”
