Page 3 of Rejected Wolf's Secret Baby (Rejected Moons 4)

“It’s not insane. It’s just human. They love routines and habits. They’re not as capable of wildness. Especially as they get older.”

“I don’t know why you would choose that over a shifter mate,” she said.

“Excuse me, haveyougot a mate?”

“No, but I’m not datinghuman meneither.” My sister is terminally single. Sometimes I think she’d rather jump off a cliff than settle down with anyone.

“I’m not dating any human men at the moment either,” I point out.

“Yeah, but the next guy you date will be one.”

“True.”

“I don’t know why you didn’t just let Dad set you up with Brandon.”

I sigh. The one person I can usually count on to be on my side, and she’s doing this. “Yes, you do.”

“No,” she says. “I know why you didn’t want to stay on pack lands and let Deidre tell you you were rotten and spoiled and have Lonnie needling you all the time. I know why you wanted to give the human world a try. But did you even ask Brandon if he’d be willing to live away from the pack?”

“Are you kidding?” I ask. “Brandon loves the pack.”

I have trouble fitting in in the human world. It’s too tame for me. But for someone like Brandon, it would have been downright impossible. He was always running around the pack territory in his wolf form when we were young, always causing mayhem. And when he wasn’t doing that, he was spending his nights at this bar, shooting pool and drinking beer and laughing boisterously at everyone’s jokes. He made money fast and lost it just as quickly, betting on games or buying drinks for everyone around him, and in all my life I never saw him back down from a fight.

The idea of Brandon taking a desk job somewhere— pushing papers nine to five, coming home in a four-door sedan, and having a quiet dinner at my dining room table—it’s insane. It’s like picturing a flying cow, or Lonnie saying something nice to somebody. Impossible.

“He’s different from the guy you remember,” Kay says. “He’s relaxed a lot.”

“I mean, he’s stillBrandon, though, right?”

“Well, yeah. I mean, he still likes to have fun. He’s still not one to back down from a challenge. But I’m telling you, he’s different. He’s grown up.”

“Not enough for the human world,” I say.

“And besides, he’s hot as hell.”

“Why don’t you go sleep with Brandon if you like him so much?”

She grins. “I’m spoken for at the moment.”

“Don’t tell me you’re in arelationship.”

“Oh, fuck, no, nothing like that.” She shudders comically. “No, it’s strictly pleasure.”

“Who?”

“Do you remember Alistair?”

I think back. “Are you talking about that kid who was like five years younger than me?”

“Well, first of all, he’s five years younger thanme, not you. But yes, that’s who I mean.”

“He’s a child!”

She laughs. “He’s thirty-nine! He’s middle-aged!”

“Well, the last time I saw him he was a teenager.”

“Trust me, he isallgrown up now,” Kay says with a wide grin. “One hundred percent man.”

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