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I opened the door and got out. It was beautiful and I couldn’t help but take a deep breath of the wilderness. Cade took my hand in his and led me to the door of the house. He reached behind a potted plant beside the front door and pulled out a key. It was such a typical hiding place for a key.
He opened the door and stepped inside.
“It’s not much, but I like to come here when I need to be alone,” he said as I entered the house.
I looked around. It was a small house. The lounge had a sofa facing a fireplace with a simple wooden coffee table in between. It was nothing compared to what I was used to, but I liked it. It felt homey. The massive houses that I’d lived in my whole life had been cold and empty.
There was a small kitchen in the corner of the lounge. It had a stove and a small fridge.
“I like it,” I said honestly as he watched me for a response.
“I thought it would be better to talk here than at the house where there are too many distractions.”
I nodded my head.
Gary was at his house. He was right, we needed time to talk about what had just happened and we didn’t need other distractions. Like how Gary was going to take the news that Cade was my mate.
Besides, I knew that our talk was going to get heated. Irrespective of how he made me feel and how right it felt being with him, I wasn’t prepared to just drop my life to be with him.
“But before we talk I need to do this again,” he said before he reached for me and pulled me closer. His hands cupped my face and tilted it upward as his lips covered mine. His seductive touch sent a shiver of awareness through me.
I wished we didn’t have to stop kissing. Once the kissing stopped and the talking started, things were going to get heated and we’d be back to fighting.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Cade
I’ll never forget how I felt the first time I saw her.
I’d missed the first day back at school because I’d been out with a couple of members from my pack trying to track down a rogue that had shown up a few days before.
We’d managed to track him to the town’s border but then his tracks had just vanished. It was never a good thing to have a rogue roaming in your territory. I had to up the patrols and security around my property.
The only reason I’d been waiting outside the school was to talk to Blake. I was leaning against my car with a couple of girls keeping me company when the smell of wild daisies hit me and I looked to the source standing at the entrance of the school.
It wasn’t her outer beauty that kept my eyes glued to her. There was something about her—maybe it was the confident air about her or the defiant way her eyes had clashed with mine.
When I’d watched her walk over to the beautiful Maserati I’d raced the day before, my interest in her had gone up a level. The thought of a girl being able to drive a car like that made her sexier than before.
She was so different from the girls I was used to. She was like a breath of fresh air and I couldn’t dispute the fact that I wanted her.
When I’d found out from Blake that she didn’t know what a pack meant and he was convinced she had no idea she was one of us, I’d felt protective of her. That protectiveness had made me watch over her that night from the boundary wall of her property.
When I’d managed to get her to come to my house so Blake and I could reveal the truth to her, she’d lost her cool and left.
The fear that had hit me when she’d hit the rogue with her car had scared me. I was in charge, so there were plenty of lives I was responsible for, but I felt something very different when Scarlett had been injured.
But it didn’t matter that I was attracted to her or that I cared. She couldn’t stand the sight of me.
And it seemed the more time I spent with her, the more she disliked me and the more she gravitated to Blake. I usually never got jealous, but for the first time I wanted to hit my best friend because he’d seemed to have caught her interest. Watching it unfold in front of me was more than I could handle.
I looked forward to seeing Scarlett as I made my way downstairs.
When I walked into the kitchen and spotted her sipping her coffee, I felt the attraction I had for her come alive. Even though she’d spent most of the day before so close to Blake, it didn’t stop how I felt about her.
I’d never felt jealous before and it took all my self-control not to beat the crap out of him.
“Morning,” I greeted her as I grabbed a cup of coffee.
