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“It must be such a hard secret to keep as a kid. I bet you wanted to tell your friends.”
Canaan shrugged. “I didn’t really have friends. I preferred playing video games. Ryland was the popular one. He was on every sports team, and all the girls had crushes on him. I was the lesser Wolverton brother.”
“That’s terrible!”
“It really wasn’t. I didn’t care enough to let it affect me.”
“So long as you had your gaming console,” she teased.
He nodded. “Pretty much.”
“It was the same for me. I moved around so much because of my mother, so I never had many friends either.”
“We have a lot in common,” he said before thinking better of it.
“We do, yeah.” Elizabeth was quiet for a little while before she added, “Is that a mate thing?”
“I don’t know. Maybe? I could ask Kyle.”
“Oh, god, no. Don’t ask him that. I guess he does know a lot more about being a human in a shifter world. Does he know who I am to you?”
“I haven’t told anyone. Rylee guessed,” he added, making sure Elizabeth knew his sister’s comment hadn’t come from him. “She smelled you on me and vice versa. That’s a shifter thing. Heightened sense of scent.”
“If you never had anyone here, it makes sense that my presence would be a big tip-off that I’m …”
“Special,” he finished for her.
“I was gonna say different,” she whispered.
“I preferspecial.” He could’ve kicked himself for saying too much. It was breaking through their easy rhythm. “It’s awkward now that you know, isn’t it?”
“I wouldn’t say awkward.” She met his eyes.
“I could wring Rylee’s neck,” he grumbled.
“Don’t. Please don’t be mad at her. She did what was best for my case, and honestly, Canaan …” Elizabeth took a deep breath. “Do you really think she’s wrong?”
His heart stopped. “What?”
“Well, we kind of are together.”
Canaan was scared to move. Scared of taking a breath. Had he heard her right? He shook his head and ran a hand back through his hair. “That’s all I want, Queenie. Believe me. But I want you to take the time to think about it.”
Canaan kept the rest of his thought inside, but his wolf heard it loud and clear.
If you say we’re together now when your world is falling apart, and you change your mind when everything is resolved, I couldn’t survive it.
His wolf called him an idiot, but Canaan didn’t have it in him to fight. He had a video game to play with his mate.
TWENTY-FOUR
ELIZABETH
Canaan was the most wonderful man ever.
It just so happened that he was also the most stubborn man ever.
Elizabeth took a deep breath and focused on the game. She didn’t know how else to explain to Canaan that she wanted to be with him. He was reluctant to accept her decision, and she didn’t know why. Was this some other shifter thing she didn’t understand? Maybe sheshouldtalk to Kyle.
