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Lovely.
I put the lid over my box of takeout food, figuring I could eat the rest later.
“This was… something… but I’m going to go. Thanks for lunch. Good luck with that.” I gestured toward his erection, then slipped out of his truck.
Honestly, I was kind of surprised he hadn’t fucked me. People were known to lose control of themselves the moment vampire venom flooded their system, and he wasn’t justpeople. He was my potential mate. My venom would hit him much harder than it hit anyone else.
Madd was out of his truck and walking me to the back door of the bakery a heartbeat later. “I’ll be waiting here when you get out of work.”
“Of course you will.” My voice was flat.
“With moving boxes,” he added.
“I haven’t agreed to move.”
“Your apartment is full of mold, Love. I could smell it before your friend even opened your door. My mate isn’t living in a mold-infested apartment. You can let me in and help me pack your shit, or I can break the damn door in and pack it myself,” Madd said bluntly.
“I’m not your mate, so the problem is solved,” I shot back.
“Liar,”my wolf said.
I reached out to knock on the bakery’s back door, but before my fist connected, Madd blocked me.
His arm was around my back, and his intense gaze was on mine. “Let go of your stubbornness for one damn second, and listen to me, woman. Your apartment is shitty, bad for your health, and expensive. I have more than a dozen empty houses in my pack’sneighborhood that are free to you, and surrounded by the forest. Tori can use the money she saves to buy more blood. No one needs to go hungry anymore.”
As much as I didn’t want to agree with him, I wasn’t a complete moron.
He had a point, and we both knew it.
“I’ll talk to Tori and let her decide what to do,” I said, pulling his hand off my waist. He let me remove it, but otherwise remained exactly where he was.
“You told me you wanted your own space.”
“In an ideal world, I would. But my situation isn’t anyone’s ideal world.”
His expression darkened, but when his hand cupped my cheek, I couldn’t stop myself from closing my eyes and leaning into the touch.
Madd made me feel… like I mattered to him, I guess.
It was a new feeling for me.
“We’re going to figure it out, Love. Trust me.”
“You want me to trust someone who doesn’t even know how to apologize,” I said, finally peeling his hand off my face and stepping away from him.
“I’ll google it.”
I suppressed a snort. “Good luck with that.”
“Thanks. Sounds like I might need it.”
I couldn’t hold back my smile.
Or the stupid way my chest warmed at the realization that he hadn’t argued with me, or tried to convince me I was wrong.
Maybe he hadn’t apologized, but he also hadn’t askedmeto apologize for not telling him what I was when we met.
He finally rapped on the bakery’s back door for me, then stepped aside. “I’ll see you in a few hours.”
