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“I’ll pick you up after your shift ends,” he said.
The bakery’s back door opened, and my coworker popped her head out. Her eyes widened when she saw Madd in front of me.
My wolf bared her teeth at her, though she couldn’t see it.“He’s ours.”
“Holy shit. You’re Archer Madd?—”
“He’s leaving,” I said, interrupting her.
I liked her, but my wolf’s possessiveness was creeping into my veins too. So at the moment, I didnotlike her.
“I’m bringing you lunch,” he called over my shoulder, as I stepped past her.
“I won’t eat it.” I just couldn’t stop myself from arguing with him.
“I will,” my coworker offered.
The snarl that escaped me as my head snapped toward her was all wolf.
Her eyes were huge as she jerked away from me, hugging the door while my wolf glared at her through my eyes.
Madd’s rumbly chuckle followed me the rest of the way into the bakery—and lingered in my mind as I angrily loaded ingredients into the massive stand mixer.
“What the hell was that?”I asked my wolf, irritated with both her and myself.
That reaction wasn’tallher.
If I was honest, it was equally her and me.
“He’s ours, even if we don’t want him to be. And I still want a do-over of last night.”
“That is never going to happen,”I told her bluntly.
It felt like a lie.
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LOVE
I apologizedto my coworker after my breathing finally evened out, and she apologized too for overstepping. According to her, she’d been in awe of his size and beauty.
Yes, that was my personal translation of what she said.
But honestly, I couldn’t hold it against her. Hadn’t I been in awe of him too? There was no ignoring the way I broke out in goosebumps every time he spoke.
I wasn’t as chatty as I normally was, but my coworker seemed to realize there was some shit going on outside the bakery for me. She wasn’t offended when my responses weren’t as enthusiastic as usual.
Tori got there two hours after I did, and immediately got to work on the cookies and cakes she always handled.
I waited longer than usual to take my lunch break, at my wolf’s insistence. She believed Madd when he said he’d be bringing me lunch—and we were out of bread, so I hadn’t been able to make myself a sandwich before work.
Sure enough, at 12 PM on the dot, one of the girls at the register called into the kitchen, “You have a visitor, Love.”
Dammit.
My wolf celebrated, but I sighed.
“He had a Jollie’s bag, and said he’ll meet you behind the building,” she added.
