Page 54 of Loup Garou

My jaw dropped as I huffed.

“Lindsay, hear me out!” His face hardened. “Before I explain let’s get one thing straight. You are in no way, shape or form doing a train or a den of anything. Understand me?”

Before I knew it, my power had lashed out at him, giving him a hard shove. “You jackass! I’m not worth your time of day, so even if you were married I wouldn’t count? Am I the token fuck? Don’t answer that. I don’t want to know. And I will do anyone I want to. You are not my keeper. You are a childhood friend who showed up out of the blueafter twenty years. You obviously have a life and I have my own. Go on your tour and take lots of pictures. Maybe in twenty more years you can stop by and show them to me.”

His eyes flashed back to black as he moved his body over mine again. “Lindsay, you are not a token anything. I am way more than just a childhood friend to you.”

“Mmm-hmm.” Letting out a very unladylike snort, I looked away from him. “What’s up with the spooky eyes thing? You didn’t do that when you were little.”

“And you didn’t dance on poles or sleep with my best friends.”

“You have to be kidding me. You were engaged. I also had no idea Eion was your best friend.”

Exavier’s eyes widened and a low growl emanated from the back of his throat. “Eion? Eion was your first? You slept with my cousin? I can’t believe you spent a summer screwing him. And for the record, I was never engaged.”

I wanted to pummel him. Lucky for him, I was a little injured at the moment. “Hey, asshole, I spent more than a summer with him. We had a good number of years under our belt.”

“What?” He dragged his hands through his hair and over his face.

“I was with him while I was choreographing for Tim.”

Exavier’s face paled considerably as he stood there. “Please tell me you didn’t sleep with them both.” He groaned. “Oh, shit, they’re the two men at one time the women in your morning class were teasing you about.”

“Maybe, we were all too drunk to remember. We woke up on the beach in a tangled heap. Who knows?” I was fucking with him but he didn’t seem to catch on to that.

“Who knows?” His eyes blazed with onyx fury. “Any more surprises for me? Though it’ll be hard to top the fact that you didn’t seem to care that you had a husband waiting for the right moment to come for you.”

“Are you a virgin?”

Exavier jerked back slightly, clearly surprised by my question. “No.”

“And of the two of us, you knew that you’re supposedly my mate. I didn’t. Tell me, Xavs, how many women have you been with? I’m guessing the numbers would blow me away. After all, you’re the one on tour in a different city every night with women throwing themselves at your feet. Yeah, preach to me some more, jerk. You knew every time you sank your dick into another woman that she wasn’t your mate.” Turning my head, I huffed and clenched my teeth tight. “My mate, my ass.”

“That is it. You are impossible to deal with.”

I smiled wide. “Great, does this mean you’re done asking me to handle that tour issue of yours?”

“No. That means you’re coming whether you like it or not.”

Laughing, I sat up as fast as I could and held my shoulder tight. “Uhh, you can’t force me to do anything, Exavier. Now go away before one of the things trying to kill me actually gets you.”

“They’re trying to kill you to hurt me, Lindsay. Why in the hell didn’t your dad go to the council about this? They would have come to me and I’d have gotten here long ago.”

“Why did you wait so long?”

He looked down a minute. “My mother told me you were married with children of your own now. She also said you were happy.”

I hopped off the desk, expecting pain to move through me. None did. Glancing down at my shoulder, I found it was completely healed. “Exavier? What did you do?”

“I healed you.”

“You don’t say? Wow, I would have never guessed that. Thank the gods you’re the prince or we’d all be lost.” I stopped and thought about what I’d just said. “Oh shit, you’re the prince. Of course you are. You’re an asshole now. It makes perfect sense you’d be a royal one.”

“Lindsay.”

“What?” I wrinkled my nose at him.

“You’re even sexier when you’re mad.”

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