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"Friend?"
"No."
Wolf studied me.
"Boyfriend?"
The word hit harder than it should have.
I immediately disliked that.
"Not that I know of."
Wolf noticed.
Unfortunately.
The man noticed everything.
His eyebrows lifted slightly.
I ignored that too.
"He made her uncomfortable."
"Yeah."
"She looked angry."
"Yeah."
Wolf nodded.
Then he said the thing I couldn't stop thinking about.
"And scared."
Silence settled between us.
Because he was right.
Sadie hadn't been nervous.
She hadn't been flustered.
She hadn't been surprised.
For one brief second...
She'd been afraid.
The memory sat like a stone in my chest.
Heavy.
Unwelcome.
Wrong.
