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“I need a moment of privacy.”
He started to argue that she had to stay where he could see her, but she added, “For my personal needs.”
Hell. “Okay, but please don’t go too far.”
Looking around, she pointed out, “There’s not a lot of growth here for a barrier. I’m going down the stream far enough that I feel comfortable.”
Worry had him ready to object, but he wanted to make peace with her, and this place looked pretty quiet. “I understand.”
She’d been looking everywhere but at him until those two words. Her gaze dropped to his face. Her face had another debate in progress, but she dismissed it quickly and snatched up a paper napkin before walking away.
He had to get past her earlier dreams that sent her hunting him for Rez and not feel gutted by her admission of thinking she found him only to help her. If she hadn’t fought so hard to stay back and send him for Rez, he might not have blown his top.
What else had happened?
Memories flooded his mind. She’d shown him the way to freedom even though she had to stay behind and ended up being caught by Krol.
She’d come to him in his dreams, and he’d been in hers.
When he broke the lock and opened the door to where she’d been imprisoned, she’d run and leaped into his arms.
He’d never felt the intensity of happiness that he’d felt at her thrill over seeing him again. She’d been unprepared for his return. That reaction had been a hundred percent honest.
Happy to see him. Not someone else.
Insecurity had never been an issue while in that cage and fighting deadly creatures to entertain Krol. His life had sucked, but survival had been simple to understand.
He’d had no good relationships with women in his pack. They’d all been ready to use him for sex, to breed, or both.
This uncomfortable sense of having no idea how to navigate his feelings for Alifair had caused him to fall back on the only thing he’d ever known, which had been never to trust anyone.
He’d compared her to everyone else who had mistreated him when she’d done the entire opposite.
She had been doing her duty for a month.
Risking her life to help him escape had not been her duty. She’d never once said she’d seen his escape in a dream. She’d wanted him far from Krol when she could have just told him to stay in the woods and wait until she needed him.
She had no idea he would even return once he crossed an ocean.
Bosse slapped his forehead. For someone who could think faster than another predator when in the arena, he’d been a mental slug with her.
Titan shouted in his head,Mate in trouble.
No! Bosse jumped up and listened. Alifair’s muffled shout reached him, but then nothing.
He tossed the food bag aside and raced along the water’s edge to find her. What had happened? She had no scent, not even the cinnamon and cardamom from before.
Then he inhaled deeply, smiling to himself. She had a scent from where he’d touched her last night.
She had his scent.
Panic had him pulling off his clothes as he ran, telling Titan,I need you to track faster than I can.
His wolf took the body and put his head down, then slowed and lifted his nose to the air.
Bosse wanted to shout to get moving, but he knew better.
Titan took off running at a blinding speed. He focused on the sound of undergrowth being shoved aside and stomped on. They weren’t far ahead.
