Page 96 of Pack Kasen: Part 2

“I will.”

One second passes in silence, and I feel the rest of the pack observing us.

She rolls her eyes, mutters something under her breath that sounds like a curse, and puts her hand in mine. “Okay. Fine. But only because you don’t know how to let things go.”

“I’m not nearly as stubborn as you.” I smile as I draw her into my arms and begin a slow dance.

We’re not on the dance floor.

If anything, we’re blocking a path out of the room.

I don’t care.

I have my mate in my arms, and I have no intention of letting her go for anything.

“You are looking particularly smug,” she says, eyes narrowing.

“Am I?”

I wince as a sharp pain radiates up my right foot.

“Oops.” Her smile is saccharine sweet. “Like I said, I don’t dance.”

The room gets louder as conversation merges with the music. I dance us a little further away from the rest of the pack, toward my office. “We need to talk.”

“About the apology you have yet to give.”

“Kat…”

She just looks at me.

Keeping hold of her hand, I pull. “Come on, we need privacy for this.”

I lead her to my office, close the door behind us, and pin her against the wall.

This urge to keep a tight hold of her whenever I have her close is growing, and for the first time, I understand Joy and Emilio’s relationship better than I ever did before. I don’t think I’ve been thinking straight since the day Kat entered my life.

“You know how I feel about you, Kat,” I tell her softly

She shakes her head. “I don’t.”

I step into her. “Yes, you do.”

She lifts her chin. “I know you keep tiptoeing around actually admitting what you did and hoping if you tiptoe long enough, I’ll forget.”

She thinks that?

I frown. “That isn’t what I’m doing.”

Doesn’t she know that I’m showing her I’m sorry? That I won’t hurt her again. That some people say things they don’t mean, like Dania’s ex, who left her, but I show them.

“Then what are you doing, Wolf King?”

The impact of that title never diminishes. Before, it was just a title.

She said it to keep me at a distance. I know because I called her a feral for the same reason, even after I started developing feelings for her.

But now that title hits me in a different way.

---