Looking down, she saw the confrontation with Micah had opened her robe, showing her nakedness.
“You’ve never seen a woman’s tits before?” she shouted. The vulgar words sounded harsh to her own ears.
“Not a virgin’s tits,” they all said at once.
Humiliated at her exposed body, she tied the sash and ran for her room. She slammed and locked the door.
She pressed her back to the door with her hand going to her neck. A small drop of blood dotted her fingers.
The man had bit her. No, not a man. Not from what she remembered from that night.
What the fuck had happened to her?
Storming around her bedroom, she grabbed her cell phone and slammed the door of her en suite bathroom.
Charlotte dialed her sister’s number and waited for her to answer.
“Hello.” The voice sounded muffled.
“Who the hell is Micah, and what the fuck went down at that bar all those years ago?” she demanded.
Rarely did she raise her voice. With the revelation she’d just had, she didn’t think being nice about it would get her what she wanted.
“Charlotte?”
“The very one.”
A few cusses and she heard her sister yell at someone. Another curse and a door slammed.
“You mean to tell me you had no recollection of that night?” Kim asked.
“Nothing.”
“Then what brought on the attack of awareness?”
Charlotte ran her fingers through her hair and got up to check her wound out in the mirror. It looked like one hell of a love bite.#p#分页标题#e#
“You know a six-foot-plus giant and his pack have stormed my apartment, and the giant has bitten me.”
“Micah is there?” Her sister sounded panicked.
“Yep.”
“Shit. You’ve got to get off this phone. He’ll punish me worse if he catches you talking to me.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Because of the crap that went down, I was banished from Rock Wood, Charlotte. I’m not allowed to set foot back in there ever again.”
“But we’re not in Rock Wood.”
“Yeah, but the banishment also includes anyone from there. I broke the rules when I started talking to you. Not only pack law. I also disobeyed my alpha and my queen.”
“Who’s your queen? And you’re not a part of this pack. Shit, what’s with all these words of wolves and packs and everything? I’m freaking out here.” Charlotte placed a hand over her chest. Her heart pounded inside her chest.
“You’re the queen, and there is still so much you don’t know about Rock Wood. I can’t believe Mom and Dad kept you in the dark. Even now, when your life is on the line.”
“What do you mean?”
“Shit, this is going to get me punished more. You’re the queen of the Rock Wood pack. The men in your apartment are werewolves, and the big one, Micah, he’s the alpha, and you’re his mate.”
Well, shit.
* * * *
“That didn’t go well,” Cade said to the men in the room.
Micah flinched as the door slammed. “Maybe I shouldn’t have been so demanding,” he suggested.
His men chuckled. Micah couldn’t help his response. Charlotte had been engaged for the longest time, yet she still held her virgin barrier intact. No dick had been near her body. Probably a good thing, otherwise he’d hunt the bastard who thought he could touch his mate.
Even on the other side of the door, she’d responded to his voice. Whether she liked it or not, Charlotte was his, and her body already knew it.
“I don’t like the fact she’d forgotten about us, boss,” Cade said in between mouthfuls of ice cream.
“She remembers. Not everything, just the night she first entered the bar.”
“You know, Brandon will be up to something if we take her back,” another of the men said.
Micah sighed. He couldn’t do anything about Brandon without starting a turf war. The ways of the wolves were always fucking pedantic. They were animals for fuck’s sake. Why couldn’t they settle their battles man to man? Brandon was a fucking coward, hiding behind their rules as some kind of shield. Brandon was a threat to the humans, but no other leader saw it.
“If he touches her, I’ll kill him.”
“It’s not just Brandon who’ll be a problem,” Cade said. “There are all the others in the pack who’ll have a problem with a human being queen.”
He hadn’t thought of that problem. Micah cursed. He had more problems on his mind over the last few years with rogue wolves than caring about a human queen.
“I can’t change what I did.”
“Not saying you should, Micah. Some of us won’t be as accepting of Charlotte. Especially some of the women who’ve tried to get in your bed since she left town,” Cade replied.