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“You’re not a leech,” he snapped, his control breaking.
“No,” she said, her voice faint.
He didn’t feel the rush of pleasure he would have expected, though. How could he when she’d gone pale again? The delicate sweetness of her scent had soured slightly, a sure sign that uneasiness was working its way through her veins.
“What’s wrong?”
She didn’t answer right away and he had to bite back the urge to snarl at her, demand she speak to him. That would do nothing but insure she figured out damn fast that he felt anything but casual about this conversation.
Letting go of her knee, he reached up to cup her cheek. “I know we’re not... friends like we used to be. But I don’t like to know that you’re hurting, Zee. You can’t tell me you aren’t. I sense it in you. You’re unsettled, too. What’s going on?”
“I’m fine, Niko,” she said gruffly, voice raw and more husky than normal.
“You’re not.” This time, the echo of a growl came through and when her gaze shot to his, he gave her a hard look. “The Prime is meant to care for those he’s charged with protecting, Zee. That includes stubborn wolves who somehow managed to keep to themselves for ten long years. But you’re not alone now.”
The fringe of her lashes lifted and she gazed at him, the green of her eyes so sharp and clear, it almost hurt to hold her gaze. For a Prime who’d been groomed from birth to lead, it was a rather dazzling thing to admit. Both his father, the past Prime and his mother, the product of a union between the female Prime of the European Therians and her Russian lover, had claimed he’d tried to stare them down before he was even a toddler.
“What do you want from me, Niko?”
