I tied the robe and headed back to the armchair. “When does that end?”
“When your blood is clean.” He got out of the bathroom, his face and hair dripping water on his naked chest. “Do you have a towel? I’d have loved to use yours, but I didn’t want to without asking you first.”
That was so intimate. “You can use it.”
He vanished into the bathroom, and I smiled.
“Coffee?” He came back all dry.
I nodded. “About the timeout, I get that Alec must listen to you because you’re Alpha, but why would Joshua? He comes from a different clan.”
He didn’t answer and entered the kitchen. “You seem to know so much about clans for a skeptic, for someone that passed out when they saw a shift.”
“You wouldn’t believe the amount of information I have.”
“Where did you get it? Your porn books?”
I giggled. “Yes.”
The smell of hot coffee nourished my senses as he emerged into the living room. He handed me a cup. “You’re asking about Alec and the leech because you miss them or your pussy does?”
“Both. If I turn into a shifter, I’d be a bunny instead of a wolf. My sex drive certainly supports that conclusion.”
He sipped at his own cup. “I thought you’d make a cute lemur.”
“What? Is that because of my big eyes?”
“Yup. They go so big when you’re staring, it’s so cute.”
Hearing that word coming from this face, out of this body sent more giggles out of my throat.
“What’s so funny?”
“You said cute.”
He looked at me, perplexed. Then he shook his head and grabbed the jeans he left on the floor last night. “I’m going to get us some breakfast. I bet you’re hungry.”
My stomach growled on cue. “Starving. But how are you going out like this? Don’t you need a shirt or something?”
“Not in Forest Grove.” He winked at me as he buttoned his jeans. “It’s not like I can wear any of your blouses anyway.”
As he headed out, he stopped in his tracks and leaned on the front door frame. “Is it weird that I’m not jealous?”
“Of?”
“Alec and Asher. The way you want them. The way you want the three of us.”
“Not to me.”
He smirked and shut the door behind him.
Oh, Kayden, why do you have to be so dreamy?
I wished the other two would have been as levelheaded as this wolf. Especially, when they knew how I felt about having to choose.
I went over to my phone and checked my messages. I’d found two from Detective Magnolia. She was assigned to my case from the beginning. Had they set a verdict date already?
Coffee filled my mouth as I tapped to listen. “Professor Ferro, this is Detective Magnolia. I’m afraid I have some bad news.” There was a pause, and an ominous chill ran through my body. “Montgomery has escaped…”
