Page 6 of Wolf Roulette

He leaned closer. “Trying to.”

Mind-speak was easy. The words just needed to be pushed in the other person’s direction.

Join me in the shower?I thought at him.

No reaction.

“Nothing?” That’s all I did in four-legged form.

I inhaled the spike in his concern.

Still, Sascha was right. Our so-calledmating giftshad never worked properly. They came in at random.

Well, notexactlyat random.

They arrived whenever I’d accepted Sascha’s presence in my life a little more.

So maybe this didn’tmake sense. We were closer than ever. Or at least, I’d taken a huge step toward him. “Is there anything you’re worried about? With us?”

“My feelings remain the same,” he answered. “And you, mate?”

“Not that I’m aware of.”

He interlaced his fingers with mine. “Then let’s put it behind us.”

I frowned. “You don’t think it has to do with me being on pack lands, do you?”

My wolf was a sigma after all.

Are you okay about this?I asked her.

For me, this is no different to interacting with the tribe. I’d prefer to be alone, of course.

It wasn’t Booker either.

Sascha tensed. “You don’t like living here?”

That wasn’t the problem. “Moving here is the only big change I can think of.”

“A lot has happened lately. Moving here is the least of those changes. This is probably nothing, little bird. Yeah?” He wrapped an arm around my shoulders.

I rested my head against his chest. “Yeah.”

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I rolled in Sascha’s gigantic bed and encountered coldness instead of his overheated body. I consulted the elastic band sensation under my ribs. He was a couple of buildings over in the pack house.

Sun blared inside the open patio doors, and I took my time stretching.

Last week, waking after dawn would be laughable. But I wasn’t head steward anymore, sofuck it. Plus, things were kind of awkward with the pack, so sleeping in meant less time in their company.

We could live in the forest,Booker said hopefully.

I padded to the wardrobe.Good try. Hey, if you’re a sigma, does that make me a sigma too?

You’re human. Humans don’t have statuses off the media because they’re stupid.

I tucked away a grin.You mean social media?