Chapter 12
The secretary’s words didn’t explain Hunter’s absence, but the tense knot in my stomach abruptly eased anyway. My mate was still evading both my calls and my presence, but Meeshi’s suggestion that I wasn’t just one girl in a long string of love ‘em and leave ‘em encounters helped. I had to trust Hunter to come back to me if and when he became ready.
Trust. I definitely needed to work on that.
With Hunter’s absence dealt with as much as it could be, I only had one question left. This final query had far less potential to tear me apart than the others had, but just asking about the rogue bloodling could toss the kid into hot water if I wasn’t careful. So I eased into the last round of the inquisition slowly and sideways. “You’re Hunter’s secretary,” I said. “Does that mean he’s
