Nancy shifted her weight, stepping into my view of the intimidating investigator. When she shifted again, he was no longer looking at me. Instead, he was listening as Nurse Irene spoke to him. I exhaled in relief. I must have only imagined that he seemed like he was going to come over. I definitel
I liked it as it was. I wasn’t ready for anything more. Lamar had to know that. Lamar caught my expression and sighed. “Think about it. Today wouldn’t have happened if you were my girlfriend. If we had the label, then Asher would have had to accept my place in your life. He’d back off for sure.”
Lamar’s upset was reasonable. If Asher had attacked him as viciously as he’d said, I would have to be a terribly insensitive person to ignore that. But the fact was, I doubted Lamar’s story. This had to be some kind of misunderstanding. Asher had a hair-trigger when it came to protecting me, but h
Even if he hadn’t promised me, I would still doubt. Asher wasn’t some mindless animal, even when his wolf came to the surface. Every time I had seen his wolf take over had been in instances where Asher was protecting me. He wouldn’t just attack someone. “Yeah, but if he lost control, would he
Quickly, I closed my eyes, focused on the projection within my mind, and snuffed it out. When I peeked my eyes open again, the glowing apparition of Asher was gone. But by then, it was already too late. Nicole had seen. “I can explain,” I said. Nicole stuck her head up from her hiding spot on
It was, but I still felt nervous about it. Returning to Asher’s dorm felt like I would be admitting something. I wasn’t sure what. I wasn’t sure I was ready to go back. Would I be able to control my heart? But Nicole was right. This was my chance to get my answers. So I replied to the text, Ok
Asher stilled. His eyes went wide for a second or two. His jaw slackened. “What?” I sucked in a shaky breath and asked again, “Did you punch Lamar?” “Cynthia.” I braced myself. Was he about to tell me what I feared most: that he had hit Lamar, and I was all wrong about him? I held my breat
“I went to the hospital last night and talked with Nurse Irene,” he said. “I wanted to scope out the investigators. See what they knew, and how they were going about collecting their information.” I tensed, remembering the investigators from this morning, and the way that third one had stared at m