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Me? Oh, I’m just thinking about how hard it’s going to be to walk away from you all, but once you know the truth it’ll probably be easy, because you’ll think I’m a terrible person.
“Nothing much,” I murmur, wishing it were true.
“I think I can hear them coming,” Rueben blurts.
Scout turns his head toward the door as it’s pushed inward.
I guess I’d better get ready to come clean.
It’s almost time to tell them why I came here this morning.
Chapter fifty-eight
Gus
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t curious about what Scarlett wants to tell us, but if she pulls some lame attempt at an apology, I’m a little afraid that my pack brothers will eat it right up.
It’s better if I’m there for this, whatever the hell this turns out to be.
She might have all three of them wrapped around her little finger, but she doesn’t have me, and she never will. I had hoped she might never darken our doorstep again after Scout got brutally honest with her yesterday. Now, I can only hope my brothers wake up to the act she’s been putting on to make them believe she gives a damn about them.
The smell of coffee hits me before Bishop even pushes the door to the kitchen open.
It’s usually a welcome aroma in the mornings, but today something else is pulling at my attention as I step into the kitchen behind our pack’s lead Alpha.
It feels like the world is moving in slow motion around me as Bishop leads the way to the table, where a blonde woman with bright blue eyes that shine like diamonds is sitting, her gaze locked on me.
The pull I feel from within toward this woman is utterly undeniable.
I recognize her instantly as my one true mate.
It takes a few more seconds to remind myself who she also is.
“No.” I shake my head.
She’s not Scarlett, because Scarlett is not our true mate.
It doesn’t matter how much she looks like her.
“What?” Bishop asks, turning to frown at me.
I frown right back at him and then I move around the table toward her.
It doesn’t make sense, and at the same time it makes perfect sense.
This woman has awakened a primal need inside of me, and every instinct I have tells me she’s mine.
She’s beyond a doubt, one hundred percent my one true mate.
She stands when I stop in front of her, and the tension that hangs between us is palpable.
One look in those sparkling eyes and I know she’s feeling the exact same things that I’m feeling, right here and now. There’s no denial, no refusal. Our fated bond is being exposed and both of us are lost to the potency of our awakening desires.
I can feel my teeth sharpening in my mouth as the urge to mark her as mine washes over me.
Somewhere, in the distance, I can hear my pack brothers muttering.
Whatever they’re saying and whoever they’re talking to, I no longer care.
