chapter 23

“I am engaged!” I cough out.

“And we’ve established that you don’t want to be, so that’s one challenge overcome.”

And once again, I’m being steamrolled by a man who thinks he can just have me.

Meanwhile, my body is still shouting, he can have you any time he wants! But the chemistry between Nathan and I isn’t enough for me to walk from one cage into another.

“Changes need to be made here if this pack is going to survive,” Nathan tells me. “You and I are the only werewolves in the allied packs to invoke the right in a hundred years. Imagine what we could do together.”

I have imagined what we could do together. Just not in the way he’s proposing.

“That way, too.”

Is he reading my mind?

He must see my panic, because he explains, “Your scent. Let’s drop the pretense. I know you want me. And I want you.”

What’s it called when everything swells up and you can’t breathe? Anaphylaxis?

That, but for my pussy.

“Think about what I’ve said.” He switches smoothly back into what sounds like a busin