Page 12 of Wrong Mate

“Oh. You would have rejected me if I’d been a vampire?” she asked.

“Vampires and wolves do not get on well. It would have been a recipe for disaster.”

She nodded, staring straight ahead.

“You know, I’m quite full and seeing as I’ve not washed in over two days, seeing as we took that nice, long dive into the lake or river, or whatever, I’m going to take a shower.”

“Leah?”

“Don’t worry about it,” Leah said.

“I don’t want to hurt you.”

“I know, and I’d rather know the truth anyway.”

She stepped into the bathroom, closed, and locked the door. Turning on the water, Leah closed her eyes and clenched her hands into fists as she heard the first loud rumble of thunder.

It’s fine. I’m fine. It’s fine. Come on, Leah, get a grip. It’s fine. He was being honest and that’s what you wanted to hear. Complete and total honesty.

That had come with a price. She felt like she had been kicked in the guts. No, she felt like he had taken out her heart and repeatedly stomped on it.

“If you had been a wolf or a human,then I would not have rejected you. You would have been mine by the end of the night.”

That was cruel.She wasn’t good enough to mate with. Her witchyness put him off.

Another howl of thunder, and through the bathroom, she saw the lightning. There was noway she was controlling that. She was fine. Her emotions were under control.

She stripped out of her clothes, pretty sure they were crawling from the stench.

Steppinginto the shower, she heard the patter of rain. That was not her.

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“You have to goto her!”

Killian threw his food out of his hands, startled as he saw Lucinda appear in the corner.

“What the ever-loving fuck? I have told you not to do that.”

“And Idon’t listen to you. Not when you have hurt one of the nicest, kindest, and sweetest women I know. Leah does not deserve to be mated to you.”

Another growl of thunder, along with lightning, could be heard and seen, even through the curtains. He heard the rain as it fell.

Lucinda groaned.“You have to go and fix it!”

“Why?”

“Leah is causingthe weather.”

Killian shook his head. “No, that’s not possible.”

“Damn it, Killian, what did you say to her?”

He told Lucinda, reluctantly, what Leah had asked him. His old friend looked like he wanted to murder him.

“Have you forgotten everything I’ve ever told you?” Lucinda asked. “Leah feels pain, she feels anger, and we at the coven realized that it affects the elements around her. The weather changes. She is so attuned to nature that we feel she can call on her for help so easily. Leah is hurting. Your honesty has hurt her. If you don’t go in and help her, soothe her, then this will get worse.”

Another crackle of lightning, immediately followed by thunder.

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