“Come with me.” He mutters, dropping his arms from around me

I follow him through to his office. I’m not sure what it was, but every time I was brought in here, I felt like I was going to be told off. That everything was going to suddenly crash down around me.

“Eric said you had a weird feeling.”

I nod. “Before Trey appeared. I… I don’t.”

“You can’t explain it.” He mutters as he sits at his desk and leaves me standing in the middle of the room.

“No, it just didn’t… it didn’t feel right.”

“What did she say to you?’

“That Trey wanted to see me. That…” I screw my face up because her words just didn’t make sense. “That he wanted to remind me.” “Remind you of what?”

“She didn’t say. She didn’t really have a chance.

“Klaus interrupted her.”

I shake my head, “Beta Eric. He just wanted to protect me, just like Klaus.”

He doesn’t acknowledge my comment about Klaus.

“I should have killed Trey when I had the chance.” He mutters with a frown.

Slipping into the empty seat in front of him, I watch him scribble a few things down. Wondering what he was writing.

“Alpha Dane, how did they know? How did they know where I was?

“A question for Klaus when he has healed.”

“Klaus?

‘I’m not saying he was involved, but he saw Cassandra before you did. I need to know what happened in those few minutes before she attacked him.” He glances up at me. “Are you sure you are not hurt?”

“Confused.” I mumble, trying to make sense of it all

“I will handle it.” He changes the subject, asking me if I had bought anything nice.

“A few bits and bobs. I think Raven has them.” I pull the credit card from my pocket and slide it across the desk towards him. He picks up the card and smiles. “I tell you to buy what you want and you barely spend anything.”

He pauses and his crimson eyes lock on mine. “The city was too much for your senses, wasn’t it?”

‘The first quiet place was the bookshop. Klaus said it took him almost a year to adjust.”

“It did, particularly his hearing. It’s why he lives so far out of the centre of the pack. There are a lot less people coming and going about their day and it was just easier for him. Unfortunately, you don’t have that luxury.”

“Because I can’t protect myself?” “Because I want you in bed with me, every night. Not hiding out in a house, somewhere in my pack.”

Alpha Dane takes me with him when he’s told that Klaus is back to a hundred percent.

He is sitting‘on the edge of the same bed that thad been on when! <> thought t was dying. Klaus had taken the band out of his hair, letting-it hangloose around his shoulders. Ane quietly drums his fingers onthe béd.

His eyes see me first and he quickly jumps up. “Are you okay?

I nod my head as Alpha Dane gives me a reassuring squeeze. “Are you?”

“That fucking arsehole came from nowhere.”

“Which one?” Alpha Dane questions him.

“What do you mean?”

“The blonde, Cassandra, she was the one who knocked you out first, right?”

“She asked me if I could reach a book for her. As I stretched up, she clobbered me across the back of my head with something heavy.” “Have you met her before?” Alpha Dane presses.

“Never seen her in my life.”

“And the when they left, that guy came from nowhere, almost like he came down from above me and sliced all the way down my spine.” He glances at me. “Don’t worry, all healed. I’m a fast healer.”

“You’ve never met them, spoken to them before?”

“Are you asking me if I set this up? Dane, why would I risk being almost killed? You know I’m smarter than .. that. Theguy barely missed my x heart. And I would be an idiot toxtry messing with you. I’ve seen what you.do to those that cross you. I would rather be on your side than Standing against you. ”

My eyes flicker to Alpha Dane but he doesn’t notice. I had only seen him kill Kyle. How dark could he go?

“Right.” Aloha Dane murmurs, turning away.

“Am I clear to go?”

“Sure.”

“Are we still having a tutoring session tonight?” Klaus asks me.

“No, not tonight.” Apha Dane answers before I get a chance to say anything.

He doesn’t sound angry. But he doesn’t sound happy either. It made me nervous. Because it made him unpredictable. Klaus leaves without speaking another word and Alpha Dane just stands there, with an unreadable expression.

“Are…are we going back to the house?” I ask after what seemed like forever.

My question ssems to pull him from some sort ofttrance. He smiles and nods his head. For the rest of the -> evening, he barely spoke to me bit appeared to be watching my every moveto the point he was making reNervous. ike) 4

It was only when I was getting into bed that he asked me if I was accidentally linking them.