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Until he loved me.
I couldn’t say that, though.
He was never going to love me.
“Until we get to the third part of the demon mating process,” I said.
That was the truth.
“And how do we get there?”
It was time to lie my ass off. “I don’t know,” I said, as if I was admitting something unfortunate.
His eyes flickered to red, and the wolf snarled through the man, “You belong to me, female.”
“Physically, yes. I know. I won’t touch anyone else.”
I was tempted to tell him that he belonged to me too, but I didn’t say that.
I didn’t have to.
The wolf would be loyal; his nature wouldn’t give him any other choice.
He just didn’t want to have anything else to do with me, which was fine.
Or maybe not fine.
Whatever it was, there was no way for me to change it.
The man’s body shuddered once, and then again.
His eyes closed for a moment.
When they reopened, they were no longer red. He said stiffly, “I’ll give you your space, then. The house and everything in it are yours—I’ll have your name put on the papers.”
My throat swelled, and I nodded.
I closed my eyes as he turned and strode out of the room, leaving the bedroom door standing open. I waited to hear the garage door rise, but the sound never came.
Instead, the back door slid open—and then slammed shut.
When I hurried to the window, I got there in time to see a gleam of his golden hair and skin disappear into the trees.
Tears leaked from my eyes.
My hands shook as I walked to the shower.
I was hungry—really hungry.
And dirty.
The hunger could wait.
I’d shower, and then I’d get dressed. When I was clean, I’d go out and find Iris, and then stop at the grocery store. My stomach could wait until I had restocked the pantry with pasta and spaghetti sauce.
The water took forever to heat up, but when it was warm, I finally stepped beneath the heat. The familiar comfort soothed me a little, and I told myself I was going to be fine as I scrubbed my skin with some generic floral-scented soap that didn’t smell a damn thing like Axel.
EIGHT
