by Dana Archer
She turned her head, breaking his grip, and walked to the end of the pool table. “I told your father everything. If you want to know, ask him.”
He had. His dad had said not to worry. It’d been handled. Nic had been left with no recourse. He’d never told his dad about Riley and had no right to demand more information. “You promised to call me if you needed me.”
“Yes, but I didn’t.” She glanced over her shoulder. “I still don’t.”
“Really? So you’re going to handle the person trying to kill you all by yourself?”
She leaned against the pool table, arms crossed under her breasts. “Nobody is trying to kill me. If you’re referring to the accident, that’s all it was—an accident. Even if there was someone out to get me, I can take care of myself. I’m not naïve or weak.”
“You’re human. That’s—”
“The reason you dumped me and never told anyone about us.” Riley curled her hands into fists and took two steps toward him. “Did you really think I wouldn’t figure it out?”
“The unmated pack females would’ve—”
“Enough.” She closed the distance between them. “Save your excuses for someone who cares. I don’t any longer. I’ve moved on.”
A surge of possessiveness he had no right to feel gripped him. He took deep breaths, but the calming exercise didn’t ease the anger. The memory of the human kissing her from moments ago added to it. It offered a visual for what Riley had done while he’d been traveling across the country in a band. It didn’t matter if he’d screwed women in every city he’d toured. None of those girls had meant anything. They didn’t belong to him.
Then again, neither did Riley.
A growl crawled up his throat. He stood there, vibrating with rage. He’d invited the situation on himself, practically tossed the woman he loved into the arms of another man, and he couldn’t do a thing about it.
Riley smiled, humor glinting in her eyes. He knew her too well. His primitive response to her words no doubt pleased her. “Now that we’re clear on where I stand in your life, what’s the real reason you’re back in Hollow’s Grove?”
Nic cracked his jaw and prepared to seal his fate. “I’m taking my rightful place as alpha. On the next full moon, I’ll accept the spirit of the pack and lead the Kagan wolves into the next generation.”
She held his gaze. No reaction. No acknowledgment of what it meant to become alpha. No hurt over learning the real reason he’d returned. Nothing.
He waited another moment for some kind of reaction. Not seeing one worried him. There was more to Riley than her looks. She was intelligent, cunning, and brave. If she’d been a wolf, she would’ve made a perfect alpha female.
He brushed his thumb over her jaw. She didn’t move. Hell, she didn’t even blink. He cleared his throat. “Well? Nothing to say?”
“I will visit your father tomorrow to offer him my vow of silence and recommendations for a new pack doctor. I’ll be gone before the week is out.”
Her head held high, Riley turned and strode toward the door.
His chest tightened on a surge of emotions he wasn’t equipped to deal with. “You don’t have to do that. This is your pack too. I would never ask you to leave it.”
Except, he had. Maybe not in words, but in actions. He’d treated her horribly the night before he’d left. He’d also spent the past four years wishing she’d just move so he could return home. Faced with the reality of Riley leaving, though, he couldn’t accept it.
She paused with her fingers wrapped around the doorknob. “And that’s why I am.”
Riley slipped out the door before he could come up with anything to say. He stepped into the hallway and followed her retreating back with his gaze. He wanted to go after her and reclaim his lover, the woman who owned his heart.
Too bad it wasn’t happening. He’d set his path tonight, and Riley had no place in it.
Neither did love.
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Dana Archer is the alter ego of Nancy Corrigan. She’s a dreamer who one day decided to write down what the voices in her head were telling her. Years later, she's still at it. The number of heroes and heroines waiting for their happily ever after have grown. As a result, you'll find her typing frantically at all hours of the day or night as she brings their stories to life.
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