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“I hurt you.”

“No, the pain is gone. It was there and then it left. I’m fine.” She reached for his ass, because she didn’t want this to end. “Make love to me, Dex.”

He reached for her hands and locked their fingers together, pressing them either side of her head, keeping her in place.

“There is only so much control I have,” he said.

This made her smile. “Was I driving you a little crazy?”

“Just a little,” he said, and then he took possession of her lips and she felt him begin to rock inside her.

Inch by inch, slowly at first. She needed more. Thrusting her pelvis up to meet his, she growled, and he chuckled.

“All in good time.”

And then she realized why.

He was a virgin.

She was a virgin.

This was their first time together.

Dex let go of her hands and cupped her face. “I want to take it slow.”

It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him at that moment that she loved him, but she didn’t. She looked into his eyes, seeing the glimmer of his wolf shining back at her, and she knew. She loved him more than anything else in the world, and she had loved him for a very long time. Longer than she thought possible. She had started to love him since the moment they had first met, and those feelings had only gotten stronger.

There was no need for words.

She didn’t thrust up or try to take over. She was with him every step of the way.

Nothing was ever going to come between them. Nothing.

Chapter Seven

“You’re back again. What do I have to do to keep you kids out of my area?” Lucinda asked. She waved some kind of talisman at him, or it might have been a hand-stitched doll.

Dex frowned. “First of all, this is the very first time I sought you out. If you remember, you came to find me, to give me that dire warning of two paths.”

“Tomato, tomartoe,” she said. “What do you want? You certainly haven’t stumbled here.”

Dex glanced around at the forest. The truth was, he didn’t exactly know where he’d been heading, but clearly, he did have a direction in mind and it was to come to Lucinda.

“The last time you came to see me, you said there were two futures for me and Casey.”

Lucinda snorted. “Only two, sweet boy, trust me, there are more than two maps for everyone, and it gets real confusing.”

Now Dex frowned. “You came to warn me, remember?”

“Yeah, I remember that, but you see, there are so many ways of interpreting the future. It is all dependent on whether you go left or right, or stay on the right path, or go back. This is why looking into the future is no guarantee. Someone can change. That is the pesky thing about human beings, they tend to change their mind.”

“We’re not humans. We’re wolves.”

Again, she snorted. “But you are still human, and you have choices. You can always choose to do the right or wrong thing. It depends on your mood and what exactly is the right or wrong thing. Am I making myself clear right now, because I feel like I am saying the same thing over and over again?”

“Are you purposely talking in riddles?”

“Oh, my, how does your father even put up with you? Thisis why I will not date, as I don’t want the risk of having children.” Lucinda took a deep breath, spun in a circle one way, and then the other. “We all have choices. Just like your good friend Buddy made the choice to hurt Casey. His path had three directions that day. One was to hurt her, the other was to not hurt her, and the other was to walk away.”

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