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“Lie. You’re a silverback. I would guess you are just hitting your stride.”
He chuckled and ran his hand over his hair, stared at where everyone was gathering at the water’s edge through the trees. “I guess I learned self-control around the humans.”
“Maybe that’s why they want you here then,” she said, her smile slipping from her lips.
“Who?”
“Damon and Beaston.”
She peeled her shirt over her head and gave him her back. He could see her red bra easily, and this was the part where he was supposed to look away out of respect, but she slid him a look over her shoulder that froze him in in his tracks. That smile. That inviting smile.
“You’re trouble,” he said, forcing himself to lower his gaze as she unsnapped her bra in the back.
“Everyone here has seen each other naked,” she told him.
“I haven’t seen you before,” he murmured, offering her his back. “We didn’t Change together.”
“I’ve seen you,” she admitted.
He frowned. “When?”
“Right after you and Cadence broke up. You went wild. Your animal was out of control and you kept Changing. You couldn’t go to school for a while.”
He slid a glance over his shoulder, and she was tying the back of her string bikini. “I dealt with that alone.”
“Not always. Sometimes I skipped school too, so you wouldn’t have to be alone.”
His frown deepened as he searched his memory. Everything from that time was muddy and blurry. “No one was with me. I didn’t want anyone around me.”
Jenna pulled her sweatpants down, panties and all, and he forced his gaze away again, clenched his hands as he stared at the pattern of the tree bark right in front of him.
“I was good at being invisible,” she quipped softly. “You weren’t alone.”
“There’s no way your parents would’ve let you skip that much school. I was a mess for a couple months.”
“Ask my dad about it someday. Ready,” she said.
He turned in time to catch the clothes she tossed to him. Jenna stood there in that teal sequined bikini and string bikini bottoms. God, she looked like a model, and the confidence on her made this moment even sexier. She was tan and slender, with perky little boobs pushing against her triangle top. A thin chain necklace with a feather pendant on it graced her throat. She slipped her feet into her slides and gestured to him. “Your turn.”
“Oh, you gonna watch me change? Since you’ve seen me before?”
Jenna tilted her chin up and looked at him down her nose, and there was something so sexy about the way she looked at him. “I don’t steal anymore. I’ll look at you when you invite me to.” She ducked her chin to her chest, offered him one more flash of silver, and then sauntered down toward the water, her slides clacking against her feet with every step.
His heart was pounding against his ribcage as he watched her leave.
Jenna had been with him during those months?
“Wait,” he said low.
She heard him and stopped, twisted around. “Yes?”
“You saw me at my worst.”
A small smile took her lips. “It wasn’t so bad. I understood.”
“No one could understand.”
“I watched you hurt. I did understand as much as someone could without feeling it myself. I hurt with you. I still think of it.”
