desire that stirred beneath a storm of emotions.
She’s our mate. It’s right.
It was not.
The towel jerked out of my hand.
“Well, shit. That was a fucking nightmare,” Savannah said.
“Are you okay? What the hell were you thinking, running across town on
four legs?”
She snarled. “Thinking? I was thinking that my wolf is a treacherous
bitch! She took control. Finding you was the only thing I could get her to do.”
“You need to get control of yourself,” I growled in return as I spun to
face her.
She’d wrapped the towel tightly around her body and tucked it in the
front. Savannah was tall, and the towel wasn’t quite as large as it should have
been. I followed her legs all the way up to the hem.
She tensed, and heat flooded my neck. A cool wave of her magic filled
the room, and shadows swirled around her like a black evening gown.
I snapped my eyes up to hers. They were burning with hatred, which
instantly killed my rising desire. But it wasn’t my roving eyes she was angry
at.
Her lips peeled back in a wolfish gesture “Damn it, Jax, I can’t get
control. It’s like my wolf has a mind of her own. She locked me out!”
“You’ll learn. I’ll help.”
“How is it that you can command my wolf when she won’t even listen to
me? I should have control over my own body. Not you. Not any man,” she
muttered.
“I do because I’m alpha.”
“Well, I hate all your alpha bullshit,” she snapped.
My muscles tightened as rage burned across my neck. I bared my teeth in
warning. “It’s who I am, so get used to it.”
Her lip quivered, and she twisted away and stared out the window. “I hate