“Why?” Kane said.
“Why? What?” Faith replied. What was the question again? Arghhh, he was distracting her. She needed to get out of there before she did something stupid, or said something stupid. Kane always made her feel like a love-sick idiot.
Taking a deep breath, Faith used her most authoritative voice, the voice she used when children were not listening and she needed their attention. “Dr. Wolfen, I will say it again, take me home, or I will walk home.” Faith knew she should say more, she had so much to say, but every time she spoke nothing she wanted to say came out. It pissed her off. “You have no right to take me!”
He laughed at her—he frigging laughed. “Oh, Faith, yes I do.”
He started removing his clothes, ripping off his shirt and pants, revealing his lovely tanned skin, his rippling muscles, and every nook and cranny of his sculptured body. He stood in front of Faith in all his naked glory. He looked even better than she’d imagined he would look without his clothes. She gulped and sat on her hands, because she had a sudden urge to trace every one of his tattoos, and he had quite a few—her favorite were the two flowers that led to a long, thick penis that looked painfully hard. She licked her lips.
Kane shifted to his wolf form. Light shone from him as he seemed to shrink, grow long hair, and filled out into a massive dirty blond wolf.
She muttered under her breath, knowing he would hear it. “How I hate you. You’re gorgeous even in your wolf form.”
Kane licked her face as he proceeded to rub his fur covered body against her until she gave in, petting and hugging him. After about fifteen minutes of this Kane turned back into a man, a very naked man in Faith’s arms.
Faith screeched. “Dr. Wolfen, get off me now.”
“What’s the difference? It’s still me, princess.”
Faith smiled at him. “I like you better as a wolf.”
Kane stared at her, and she watched his jaw as he ground his teeth and ran his hand over his face. Faith could tell he was getting frustrated because he wasn’t getting anywhere with her. “Why?”
“Why do I like you better as a wolf?”
“No, why have you avoided me for the last four years? You stopped talking to me, and any time I did manage to get a glimpse of you, you glared at me with distrustful eyes.”
Faith stared at Kane, trying to figure out how to reply. She couldn’t tell him that it was because of the incident that had occurred when she was sixteen. He’d come home for the weekend and she’d caught him having sex with one of his girlfriends. Later, said girlfriend had found Faith sitting on her swing in her special place in the woods and proceeded to tell her that she would never have Kane, that she had a silly crush, and she never had a chance of becoming anything to him, because he was an alpha wolf next in line and she was only human.
Faith had been heartbroken, because she knew Kane had seen and heard her when she’d walked in on them. She was also sure he’d seen her further humiliation when the girl had ridiculed her. Faith was aware Kane knew about her crush, but he said nothing, did nothing. He didn’t even check to see if she was okay. Her heart was broken, and she was angry. She’d expected better from him. Maybe she had overreacted, but she was only sixteen. He was the man she loved, and she’d hoped that someday he would see her as more than just an annoying kid. She knew that he sensed she was supposed to be something special to him, even if he didn’t want to acknowledge it. She didn’t seem to be able to get over her anger even though it was years later. It still hurt.
Faith knew she was being childish, but no, she wasn’t going to answer him. She couldn’t do this again. She was getting over him, she was over him, she had decided. She had even decided she was going to take her friend Brad up on his offer and marry him and have a normal life. She had it all figured out.
Faith looked up into his eyes. “No, no way, Kane. You are not going to do this to me. I have finally got my confidence and my life back on track. I don’t love you anymore, I can’t. I’m going to marry someone else. Brad’s coming to Australia, and when he asks me to marry him, I’m going to act surprised, and I’m going to say yes. I’m going to move to England and have a nice normal life! I, Faith York, do not love you anymore. I’m no longer a silly sixteen-year-old who adores you, so you, Dr. Wolfen, are going to take me home now.”
Shit! Okay, that was so the wrong thing to say. She could see in Kane’s eyes the wolf had taken over. He ripped Faith’s clothes off and bit her shoulder, marking her as his mate.
* * * *
Kane had never been so frustrated in his life. He was the calm one in the family, the cool, collected doctor. His wolf was jealous and angry, repeating in his head that she’d been sixteen years old back then, too young to claim. I waited patiently. She was too young then, but now she’s grown. She is mine, she is ours. Deep down you knew it too.