219.  Step Two

~ CARA ~

I never even considered how it would feel to lose the link with Rig. I’d been out of his arms and out of his sight a few times since we completed the bond, but never out of range.

When he drove away with Natalie in the jeep and twenty minutes later I was alone in my head it almost sent me into a panic.

My scent must have changed, because I was sitting on the couch in the living room, intending to wait an hour before I went to see Meg since it was still so early, and I’d probably wake her up. But Charlie appeared suddenly out of the kitchen, frowning at me.

“You okay?”

It was embarrassing how intimately these wolves knew each other. Of course, I could scent his unease as well, so maybe we we