She came back to Gideon, and he spread his arms to take her into his lap as she showed him the caller ID. She could feel his whole body become rigid under hers.
“What does he want?” the Lycan King grunted, wrapping his arms possessively around his still naked mate.
“Let’s find out.” She giggled, leaning into him and answering the call.
“Ri,” she heard her ex-husband voice and listened in disbelief that he still had the audacity to call her that. What was he thinking? “Thank you for picking up,” he said, sounding slightly lost. They were not together anymore, but after years of a relationship with him, she knew everything there was to know about him. Something was wrong.
“How can I help you, Alpha Thorn?” she asked in a business-like manner, dry and cold, yet respectful.
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