Irina
“I love you, Irina.”
The words resonated around my head long after his midnight wolf left the gym. He hadn’t said them out loud, but he’d spoken to them directly into my mind. He loved me already, despite my nature. It took a long time for me to get my limbs to move and leave the gym.
Back in Alec’s room, I felt conflicted. My beasts begged me to hunt down Quinn and forgive him, but my pride told me to stick to my guns. Alec was nowhere to be seen with his words of wisdom. I was left to ponder why I had been given a mate when I lacked the emotional capacity to deal with one. I tried to call my upset and hurt his assumptions, but in reality, I probably looked terrifying beating the s**t out of Mike. That cowardly SOB went down in only a few punches.
I had fallen into a fitful sl
