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| sat staring at the screen with a pit in my stomach. It was foolish. | needed to speak with him. | needed to figure
out my feelings before | did anything else. But seeing his words madefreeze...and panic.
"Are you okay?" Rick's words snappedback from the screen.
"Um, yeah. Just a message | need to respond to."
He nodded. "When are you talking to Vince? About leaving?"
| sighed. "After | know where I'm going." He nodded and stood.
"I guess I'll see you tonight."
| smiled. "See you tonight. | need to leave a little early to get everything | need for
tonight." He nodded, then leftalone in the
office.
| wanted to ignore Thoth's message, which is stupid. | needed to face this.
You are panicking over a message? Nix sounded amused.
Megan chuckled with her. | think she is panicking more about what the message
means.
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But she messaged him first. Nix shook her head.
| laughed. They were both right. | shook my head as | turned back to the screen. The cursor flashing, waiting for
my message.
NixtheGoddess: What do you need to talk toabout?
| hit send before | could think about it, and then | waited. | turned to my work computer, doing my best to look
busy. | heard a new notification, and my stomach clenched as | turned to look at the screen. My stomach
loosened when | realized it was from my father. Before | could read it, a stench hit my nose, just a tiny. | knew
Brandon was creeping outside of my office, but | had thought he had left when Rick left, but no. He was still out
there. | ignored him and clicked on my father's message.
Deadmanwalking: King has agreed to move back to pack lands. You can move
today.
NixtheGoddess: Are you ready to move?
Deadmanwalking: Believewhen | say everyone is champing at the bit. | have Ronnie and Cas scouting the
caves.
NixtheGoddess: WHAT? Cas is still so young.
Deadmanwalking: Yet she has quickly becour best tracker. You were right.
| let a lot fall to the wayside when your mother left, but | have been sticking to
their training and the girl has really stepped up.
| felt a little vindicated after he said that.
NixtheGoddess: Are they okay?
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Deadmanwalking: They are fine. They haven't even gotten to the caves yet; they left a little while ago. But |
figured you would
want to know. Anyway...
| furrowed my brow at the screen, and | was going to ask what was wrong. My father was never one to trail off.
But Brandon
finally walked to my office door after standing outside long enough for his scent to creep fully into my office. |
felt my face fall as
| looked up. There were two notifications that went off, but | shut the laptop screen and settled back into my
seat, crossing my
arms.
"What are you doing here?" My tone was sharp to my ears, but | wasn't going to pretend to care about this man
anymore. That
part of this play was over.
Brandon smiled and tried to caround the desk, but I let out a growl. His face fell. "Babe." (1
Another growl was ripped from my throat. My voice fell lower. "I would think again before callingthat. Keep
your distance. |
don't want you anywhere nearanymore."
Brandon's eyes tightened and | could see he wanted to snarl, but he held it in check. "Why are you acting like
this?" He sank into
the chair across from me. "I told you Shannon doesn't matter to me."
I snored. “You really think I'm fucking stupid, don't you?" He stilled for a fraction of
a second, but the damage was done. | threw
my head back and laughed. | laughed so hard tears had started to fall, but | just nodded. "I walked into that one.
Of course you think I'm stupid."
He drew in a deep breath, and | watched as his eyes dilated a little. "That's not true." He tried to sound so
sincere, but even he
could hear the lie. "You smell...different."
| raised my shoulder. "I went back to my old shampoo." Another ding from my laptop drew his attention.
"What was that?"
"An email." | tossed back. "But that isn't important. What are you doing here, Brandon?"
He looked atfor a second, then puffed up his chest a little. "I cto apologize about last night."
| waved him off. "It doesn't matter anymore."
He smiled like he won. "Exactly, so we can just go back to being fine. Our mating ceremony is in a week and
then we will be mates." | stared at him for a minute, my eyes dancing all around his head. He started to squirm.
"What?"
| gave a long blink. "I'm sorry, | was just checking to see if you got hit over the head."
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