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Once outside, I shoved away from him. “What the hell was that about claiming?”
“Nothing.” He stormed forward to his truck, then held the passenger door open for me. “Get in.”
I crossed my arms and planted my feet. I’d stand there until I was old and gray if I had to. “Not until you explain what you meant. That is the second time someone talked about me being unclaimed. What does it mean?”
He released a snarl—similar to the one he had inside but one with far more frustration. It seemed dealing with me was even more annoying than dealing with the pack. “Humans can be claimed by werewolves. When they are, any other werewolf can’t touch them, can’t harm them. Because werewolves are possessive, it also means other supernaturals tend to give them a wide berth.”
“So what? Wolves just go around collecting humans like cattle, like vampires do?”
Troy shook his head. “Werewolves only claim a single human, and only when they take that human as their mate.”
Mate.
Even though I didn’t know exactly what that meant in werewolf terms, it sure as hell wasn’t hard to guess. I licked my lips as though they’d suddenly gone dry. “So I’m your…” I couldn’t say it.
He looked at the ground and scuffed his shoe along the dirt. “We wolves don’t get to pick this, Ava, at least not our human half. The wolf chooses our mates, and we’re just along for the ride.”
And…wow…that statement stungfarmore than I’d have ever expected it to. Not only was he admitting I was his mate—clearly he was never planning on telling me—but he also managed to make it clear he would haveneverchosen me if he’d had a say in it.
“I didn’t mean it like that,” he said, his voice losing the snarl as if he’d just realized exactly how his statement had sounded.
“Whatever,” I muttered like a petulant teenager before I passed him and slid into the passenger seat of his truck. “Take me home.”
He could go fuck himself for all I cared, because I no longer planned to do it.
