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“A group of humans.”
The words leave her mouth, but it isn’t until they’ve repeated inside my head several times that I begin to comprehend what she’s said.
“Humans? How?”
My words are short and clipped, but that’s all I’m capable of at the moment.
“Drugs. Lots of drugs.” She shudders, looking up at me with tears in her eyes. “There are others. I left them all behind. I… I just ran.”
“Other wolves?”
She nods, her voice cracking with heavy emotions. “And vampires and witches.”
What in the actual fuck?
“I need to call River back,” I tell her. “The guy who was just on the phone. He’s someone we can trust.”
A stretch of silence builds between us as she avoids looking at me. Maybe I should have just texted him, but not having her permission to share this information doesn’t sit right with me.
I wait for her to respond, every second my body growing more tense.
“I can trust you,” she says so quietly I almost think I don’t hear her right.
Except when her eyes finally meet mine, they’re bright and full of hope. Hope that makes me determined to slay every demon from my mate’s past.
I go to her again, this time dropping to my knees and not touching her. “I won’t let anyone else hurt you ever again. Whoever did this, they will die a brutal death. I promise you.”
She reaches out, her fingers brushing over my chest. Even with my shirt keeping our skin from touching, the heat from her burns through me, branding me for a lifetime as the rest of the world seems to disappear around us.
My heart pounds heavily in my chest, and I stop breathing for those first few seconds as she begins to speak. “My wolf tells me we’re safe with you. In fact, she insists on it. But I haven’t been safe in… Well, I’m starting to think decades after what you’ve said. You’re going to have to be patient with me.”
I lift a hand and lightly place it over hers where it’s still resting against my chest and give her my best smile. “Woman, I will wait the rest of my life for you.”
And suddenly, being snowed in for the night has never sounded so good.
Chapter12
DAWSYN
Back in East Texas…
“Get down!” Aunt Embry screams in my ear as she tackles me to the snow-covered ground, laughing her ass off. “Your mate nearly took your head off.”
No, not Cillian. He wouldn’t do that.
Only when I peek up from behind the fallen tree we’re now crouched behind, I see his smirking grin. Not only that, but the shithead waves his fingers at me.
Oh, I’m going to kill him.
Aunt Lucy comes with a basket of already-made snowballs. “Give them hell, kid.”
I’m not a kid any longer, haven’t been in years, but I proudly take the offering and turn back to my mate.
Cillian’s face pales and he darts behind a tree, but that’s not going to save him now.
Mom screeches from a few yards away and Aunt Embry goes to help her, but Aunt Lucy stays with me.
“I could…”
