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"None of that," he murmured into my ear. "Don't be embarrassed."
"I needed you," I admitted, trying to explain why I felt so vulnerable, why I felt sowrong.
"And I need you," he muttered.
He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me, soft and slow, and I let myself get lost in his kiss.
CHAPTER44
Stone
I walkedinto my own house, and found myself walking right back out again.
“You can fuck all the way off,” Karissa told me, her pointy finger stuck in my chest. She looked up at me from a good foot below, but she still glared at me intensely. “You are not sleeping in this house tonight.”
“It’s my house.” I wouldn’t hit my sister or even push her, which she knew damned well, so I had to back up.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s her house right now,” she bit back at me furiously.“Youforced her to stay here. Shaw asked you to give her a cottage of her own, but you didn’t want that. You wanted herhere. Well, now she’shere. And you’re not.”
“Karissa, get out of my face. It’s been a long day.”
“You’re the one who makes the days long!” she exploded.
I frowned down at her. “She’ll be fine. It’s just a memory. She’s not hurt.”
“You are such an idiot.”
“You are talking to your alpha, remember.” A growl of power rumbled through that reminder.
But she just scoffed. “Save it for someone who isn’t your sister. Honestly.”
She looked as if she wanted to slap me, but she just pointed out the door.
“You know you can’t stop me,” I warned her.
She raised bright eyes to mine. “You’re right.”
The words were so unexpected they made me pause.
“But you know you hurt her. You know you fucked up. Deep down, don’t you?” she asked. “So, as I said earlier.” She fixed me with a bright, fake smile. “Fuck all the way off.”
I scoffed, but turned and walked away. There was no point in arguing with Karissa.
An unsettled feeling swept through me.
I’d done what I had to do.
But usually, no matter how much I disliked interrogating a packmate or punishing the guilty, I felt sure of myself. It was the right thing to do.
The memory of Amelia’s wide blue eyes, her panicked look, the way she’d pushed me away, rose like ghosts.
The thought that she was in pain right now speared through my chest.
I turned the corner around the house, determined to go for a run.
The cry that broke through the night air stopped me in my tracks.
I paused, listening. It was a wild sound, full of pleasure.
