He jostled her, serious alarm flaring, until she blinked normal blue eyes.
“What happ—” he asked.
“There’s a wolf.”
He grinned. “Yes, there is.”
She shook her head and pointed her chin to the huge window. “Out there. He’s coming.”
“What?”
“I Saw it. I never have random visions like that. I don’t know what it means, but it has always been huge when I have a vision without searching for one.”
“Okay,” The whiplash of love to defense hurt for a second. “Okay, stay up here.”
“What?”
“We’re going to lock this place down. Nobody’s getting past Nico, but I’ll be out there, and I will take care of this.” He said all this as he gently pushed her off his lap and helped her steady on her feet as he got up, too.
“You’re not leaving me here!”
“I am definitely leaving you here.”
“Mateo!”
“I’m not putting you in harm’s way!”
“I was there in the woods in the vision,” she said as she straightened her skirt.
He shook his head. “That’s a new way to win an argument. I’m right because I already saw it happen.”
“I’m not lying!”
“We’re really going to have to discuss the space-time continuum.”
“The what?”
“And the, you know, paradox of time travel and how it might end the world,” he added as he tidied her shirt.
“You read too much science fiction. I’m coming.”
“Yes, you did.”
“Mateo!”
He could not make her stay. He could not ask his wolves to make her stay. And she would probably run the moment she could. “Okay, but you stay behind me, and you run like hell the moment I tell you to.”
“Okay, fine.”
“I’m serious, Cat. This is life and death.”
“I know. Besides, I’ll probably know before you do when it’s time to run, you know?”
He laughed. “Fair point.”
They flew down the stairs. Had the other pack found the body in the woods? Were they coming to declare war? How could he stay here if he had to fight? Why would she stay with him if she had to watch him fight?
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