Page 63 of Wolf Cursed
I shivered, and his eyes darkened knowingly. Whatever wall he’d put up between us, it was crumbling now. I could see some of the emotion he’d been hiding. And the attraction. It made my skin tingle.
He released the clasp and dropped his hands. I slid the helmet off, shaking out my hair now hopelessly tangled from the wind.
“Thank you,” I said finally, mostly because the silence was killing me.
“For what?” he asked.
“Saving me,” I said.
His brow lifted in challenge. “How do you know I didn’t bring you out here to kill you?”
“Because you would never hurt me.”
“You shouldn’t trust me, Ashes.”
“Why not?”
He sighed. “I’m a Lone Wolf,” he said as if that explained everything.
Instead, all it did was make me go completely still.
“What did you say?” I asked slowly.
“I said I’m a Lone Wolf.” He sighed. “It’s the name of our pack.”
“Your… and the symbol is a white wolf’s head tipped back in a howl?”
He shrugged. “Yeah. So?”
I swallowed hard, heart racing. My head was a jumble of panic and fear and sudden understanding. If I’d been standing before anyone else on the planet, I would have fled. But this was Kai. And I knew one thing for absolute certain.
“You won’t hurt me,” I repeated, more firmly this time. Mostly for my own benefit. “I can see it in your eyes when you look at me.”
He held my gaze until my racing heart had nothing to do with my fear from a moment ago and everything to do with the way he always seemed to draw me in and make me want to jump his bones.
“And what else do you see when I look at you?”
His voice was quiet and just rough enough to rake me over with its sharp edges.
“You want to be friends with me.”
He smirked. “Is that right?”
“But I think you don’t know how to be friends. Or don’t want to let yourself be happy. Why is that?”
He winced at that. “Ash, there’s a lot you don’t know.”
“You mean the curse?”
The smirk fell away. “I’m going to kill those twins,” he muttered.
“They’re just trying to be honest,” I said. “Something friends do.”
He grimaced. “Look, we might not have an alpha, but there are a few things the pack agrees on, and this is one of them. We don’t talk about the curse.”
“Don’t or can’t?” I cocked my head. “It seemed like they were literally unable to say the words.”
“Both.”
