Chapter 029

[Sylvester]

I knew that she was the right pick for this job.

She is so different from any she-wolf I've ever dated. She shapes the world around her with her smiles and frowns, brightening the room with her light. She almost glows with energy, and when I saw her with the pups tonight, I could tell that they could feel it too.

If she were a wolf, I'd have been afraid to make her my Rental Luna. A wolf with that much charisma is destined to run a pack. Because she's a human, she'll never be a threat.

"She'd never be a threat because she is ours," Rufus rolls his eyes in my mind.

"Alexis was once ours too, remember?" Or so we thought. I don't understand why she's come back. I know it's not for me, no matter what she's been telling the Board of Directors.

"Apple is different," Rufus insists. "She is OURS."

The way he emphasizes our ownership of her usually means one very particular thing--something that can't be possible. If it were, I'd send her as far away from me as possible.

I can