Page 9 of Fated In Winter

I had never met someone that my wolf was so intrigued with before, and that worried me.

I shook my head and pushed the thoughts out of my mind. There was no need to stress over something that wasn’t going to happen. I had a party to plan. A fucking Yule party for the Alphas. And while I agreed the Alphas needed something, as did our Packs, I wasn’t sure why I was the one that was supposed to do this. But it wasn’t as if I had a choice.

I made my way outside and blinked as I saw Romy coming up. She had her dark hair piled on the top of her head, her long neck inviting.

I frowned. Inviting? Where the hell had that come from?

She had on a low-cut shirt that showed just a peek of cleavage every time she moved, as well as a wrap sweater that had a tie around her waist. She also wore dark leggings and thick boots that probably kept her legs warm and helped her with her footing.

Why the hell was I paying so much attention to the way that her curves filled out those leggings?

“I didn’t know you were meeting me here,” I said as I frowned at her outside of my front door.

She gave me a look. “I didn’t realize I need your permission to be on your land?”

I sighed, my wolf not rising to the bait. After all, he was intrigued by her, and hell, so was the human half.

“I just meant I thought we were meeting at the neutral territory, not in front of my house.”

She shrugged, the action forcing my gaze to her curves once again. I pulled my gaze up to those gray eyes of hers and swallowed hard. What was wrong with me, and why did she intrigue me so much?

“I was visiting Quinn and Gina, and since I was already in the den, I figured I would meet you here rather than where the council meets. As I don’t have your phone number, it made it a little difficult to try to warn you.”

I cursed under my breath and pulled my phone out of my back pocket. “I don’t know why we didn’t do that yesterday. I’m sorry.”

“We had other things on our mind, like a party that we need to plan. And honestly, you don’t need to apologize. I’m surprised you did.”

I snorted, raised a brow. “Just because I’m a dominant male doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say I’m sorry.”

“That’s not what I’m used to, but I like it.”

“Well, don’t get used to it because I don’t always act as I should.”

She snorted. “Now that’s the dominant male attitude I’m used to.”

“Oh yeah? And a dominant female isn’t the same way?”

“That is true. However, I’m not that high on the hierarchy. I’m not a submissive wolf, but you’re far more dominant than me.”

She met my gaze as she said it, and I found that odd. She was far more submissive than I was, but she was still a soldier. However, she shouldn’t be able to meet my gaze for long. Maybe it was because we weren’t fighting for dominance. Or perhaps it was something else.

And once again, I wasn’t going to think about that. I wasn’t sure I would like the answer if I asked the question.

“I was planning on doing a run around the perimeter before we have a chance to sit down. Do you want to join me?”

She looked at me then and nodded. “Are you still looking for Darren?” she asked, her voice a whisper. She was close to me now, and I wasn’t even aware that I had moved, so I was a bare breath from her. My wolf reached out, wanting her, and damn it, that single thought I’d had in my head when I fell down that mountain hit me again. I wanted her. I had fallen in love with her at first sight, and it maybe had just been because of her strength, and perhaps it was just a joke in my head, but I knew who this woman was.

Damn it. She could be my mate.

Mate.

The word kept banging around in my head, and I told myself not to worry about it because it was just a potential.

All shifters could find their mates. It might take a century. It might be the first moment that they start looking. It could be with humans, witches, or other shifters.

I used to think there were only wolf shifters out in the world, but it was recently revealed to our small group that there were cat shifters, and possibly other shifters out in the world, created by other goddesses.

The moon goddess had created wolves when she had seen a human hunter many eons ago hunt and aggressively attack a wolf for nothing more than sport.

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