Page 71 of The Wolf King's Mate

He lifted it in front of me, holding up his phone so I could see every call he’d received recently.

The only names on it were his brothers’, and there were no unknown phone numbers.

He maneuvered to his text messages, and once again showed me that the only conversations he had were with me, his brothers, and…

“Fletcher? You texted Fletcher?”

“I told you I got information about you from him.”

Right.

The chocolate.

I didn’t even want to know what else they’d said about me. Or how pissed Fletcher was after the conversation. He hadn’t even mentioned it to me, which stung.

He put his phone in his pocket and lowered his lips to my ear. His hands were still on my hips, his thumbs dragging lightly over my lower back. “You are the only female I want, Princess.” His lips brushed my bare shoulder with a quick kiss. “I don’t even have time for our relationship. Another one is out of the question.”

That was a good point. He spent a lot of his time with me, and I knew he spent the rest of it with his pack or hunting rogues. He definitely hadn’t been in anyone else’s bed at night, or making food for them.

I had no idea why I was jealous in the first place.

It wasn’t like I really wanted him.

He was just… acting weird.

I’d blame it on that.

He released my hips and took my hand. When his fingers laced through mine, my throat swelled.

What was he doing?

Why was he holding my hand?

He towed me back to his truck, walking slowly to give me time to make the trip in my boot. When we reached the vehicle, he lifted me into the passenger seat.

“You’re not acting normal,” I said, eyeing him as he turned the truck on.

“What’s normal for me?” he asked.

I guess I didn’t really know.

“Choking your packmates and breaking people’s bones for knowing me before you?” I suggested.

He snorted. “Sure, Princess. If you want to pretend that’s all there is to me, go ahead.”

thirteen

ASPEN

I couldn’t helpbut stare at him as he drove down a dirt road. Trees whirred past us, but my wolf wasn’t even interested in them. She just kept purring at the man in the seat next to me.

Heat was definitely approaching.

“Have you ever taken a human mate?” I asked, unable to stop the question from bubbling out.

“No. Have you ever seen a wolf go rogue?”

I blinked. “No.”

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