Chapter １５

"Are you saying that you simply cannot or simply will not do this? Carl's cold eyes stared right through her. It was something you wanted that night.

That's different," she said. It's a no-go.

Is there anything that definitely won't work?

She gestured for them to come together. “This. Both of us."

His arms were folded across his chest. So, "why not?"

She stutter-spoke, "Well, you're you...and I'm me." Her mind was blank because the smell of him was driving her crazy. She closed her eyes, fighting the urge to growl, and it was delicious. It was a reflexive motion, like acting on a gut feeling, but she understood its source.

Affirmatively scrumptious, yes.

Her dormant and normally silent inner wolf was reacting to Carl in some way.

I don't get it," he retorted.