Chapter 9

Nathan

I hear him coming long before he nips my heel mid-stride and sends me tumbling across the forest floor in a tangle of limbs and twigs and leaves.

“I said stop,” Rex growls as he shifts back and offers me a hand up off the ground. Shifting back to my human form, I bat his hand away and slump down, choosing to remain where I am in the dirt.

“For fuck's sake.” Rex raises his eyes to heaven before leaning back against a nearby tree and folding his arms over his chest. “So, you met your mate?”

I grunt and nod sulkily and pick a leaf out of my hair absentmindedly. I wince as my fingers brush across the quickly healing cut on my head. There’s a lump there too. That will take longer to disappear. Maya. My sweet, wonderful Maya. Although she wasn’t so sweet when she was drop-kicking me across my bedroom and into the wall. It was all going so well. Until it wasn’t.

“Did she reject you?” He knows damn well that she didn’t. If she had, I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to him, I’d be writ