Page 8 of Love Bites

She inhaled a forest and spice scent that sent her wolf into a shuddering howl.

Gideon.

This was Gideon.

She was in Gideon’s arms.

And she needed to run away before she made a fool of herself.

“You okay?” he asked, his voice that low growl that caused shivers in all the right places.

No, those were thewrongplaces.

This was the wrong wolf. The wrong place. The wrong time.

She pulled away and nodded. “Lost my footing,” she replied softly then stepped back so she was at Finn’s side. Finn wrapped his arm around her shoulders, but she didn’t lean into him.

Gideon gave her a look she couldn’t decipher then turned back to Kade, continuing his conversation as if he’d never held her, never seen her.

Well, that settled that.

There would be no mating.

What kind of Alpha would want a submissive wolf by his side? Especially a submissive wolf from a different Pack?

She took a deep breath and pulled away from Finn. She’d get over this. She did when she was seventeen, and she would do so again.

Gideon Brentwood was not for her.

Her loyalties were to the Redwoods, to her family.

Not to a fate that lay in tatters thanks to a bond she would never have.

She would cope.

She had no other choice.

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