Chapter 34: "He did what?"

Roman’s pov.

“Calm down. I know what I'm doing.”

Scarlett regards me calmly and cocks her head to the side.

“Are you sure?”

“I am.”

Everything between us feels so settled right now that I don't know what to think of it. She’s still beautiful, as beautiful as she was when I first saw her, but now, with the hair change, she feels different.

I think I've always been aware that this has been happening. Right from that moment when she held a gun in her hands and shot wolves down so she could protect herself and her daughter.

Scarlett is bolder now, she would never have asked me a question like that a week ago.

“He’s the one who saw me this morning.”

I look at her and nod.

“I sent him to your room to get you.”

“And he saw me naked.”

“He did what?”

Fenrir’s anger is like a lance at my throat. The pressure building in my chest is remarkable, but he’s not the one in control, I am.

Scarlett’s eyes are wide in shock and I see she’s flinched. I relax back into my seat and close my eyes so I can