“I don’t think I should tell you.” I opened my hot dog. I didn’t love hot dogs, but food was food.
Plus, eating was something to do other than continue spilling my sexual history to Maverick.
“I think you should.”
“It doesn’t matter, Mav.”
“Like hell it doesn’t. You’re mine. It matters.”
“I get lonely sometimes too. That’s all.”
“When was the last time yougot lonelywith Timber?” The growl in his voice was impossible to miss.
“A few months ago.”
“Bloom,” he warned.
“Fine, it was three months ago. Way before I met you. And it was just sex, so I don’t see why it matters to you. It only happens two or three times a year, and we don’t talk outside of it.”
“Has he ever bitten you?” Maverick’s voice was low. Too low.
“No, Maverick. No one has ever bitten me but you. And I’m sure you’re not a virgin, either.”
“Of course not.”
“Exactly. When was the last time you had sex?”
“Last March.”
“You answered thatwaytoo quickly.”
“Werewolves go through breeding season every March. Sex is basically unavoidable for a few days of that, after a certain age.”
My eyes widened. “A fewdays?”
He nodded. “Our anatomy changes. It’s the only part of the year where we’re fertile.”
“I don’t think I want more details than that.”
“Alright.”
“We should get going.”
“If you say so.” He pulled out of the gas station. We ate as we drove.
“Who did you spend breeding season with?” I asked.
“Alisa. I trust her not to develop feelings.”
She was the blonde with the mate mark who had been driving me around. I liked her, dammit.
I shouldn’t have been annoyed that I’d met the woman he fucked last March, but I kind of was. I decided I’d better not ask how many breeding seasons they had spent together.
“What happened to her mate?” I couldn’t help but ask the question. She had a mark, and it obviously wasn’t because of Maverick. It wouldn’t have scarred unless she bit him too.
“She lost him in the war. It was an epic love situation, and she doesn’t plan to take another mate at any point. Does Timber want to mate with you?”
Well, that made me feel shitty for being annoyed at her.
