“Gray?” I whispered. “I did want a wolf mate, when I was younger and didn’t know just how much I could love someone without a wolf. I love you. That’s not going to change just because of what you are or are not.” He replied. “Why didn’t you just reject me in the beginning, before you got attached?” I asked. “Because he wouldn’t get a second chance if he did. If you get a second chance, it’s only if you were the rejected person. You would have had to have rejected him.” Amber explained like I was an i***t. I stared down at my hands. Gray said he wanted me from the moment he saw me. He never tried to give me up and he never tried to get me to give him up. He could have told me how to reject him at any point before I was kidnapped and I would have done it. “We can’t just stand aside