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It was funny how fast your life could change. Up until this morning, I’d never thought I’d have a purpose outside the clan. Everything I’d ever worked for had been for my family. Myself, really. And that was how I’d expected it to continue. Sure, I’d believed I might take a mate one day, but in doing so they’d become clan.
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One chance meeting had my priorities shifting. Now, this human came above everything else. To a human, it might have seemed sudden. Dramatic, even.
But I wasn’t human.
I was a wolf shifter. Our natures were different. We were protective to a fault. Loyal against all odds. Territorial over those we considered ours.
Reid wasn’t mine, not in that sense. He never would be.
That didn’t matter to my wolf. Like me, he took what had happened to Reid personally.
We’d both let him down. And now, we’d both protect him with everything we had.
The foursome stopped off at an Italian restaurant first. Seated at a table in the window, they ordered a couple of pizzas to share. The conversation seemed to flow easily, the cadence of the banter easy to hear even from my position across the street. The exact words escaped me, but the pattern was familiar. It was the same teasing back-and-forth I was used to with my own friends.
“I didn’t look away from Reid the entire time. I noted each of his microexpressions. The wrinkle in his nose when he realised his cocktail was sour. How his eyes rolled back at the first spoonful of chocolate mousse. The way his shoulders shook as merry laughter overtook him.
I wished it could erase the way he’d looked at me earlier. The hate he’d worn. The disgust. The shame.
But it couldn’t. I’d remember it until my dying day.
It was the least I deserved.
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