Pike
I sit on the porch with my legs folded to my body and my angry gaze cast on the ground. Cinder is talking to her second-chance mate, Jason, inside. They think I can’t hear them since I lost my super-hearing with my wolf, but they aren’t being exactly silent.
“He lost his wolf - you have to reject him!” Jason whisper-yells at Cinder. “You can’t be with a man that can’t even protect you. If anything, you will be the one protecting him if you choose him as your mate.”
Cinder draws in air through her nose before letting it all out in a heavy sigh. “I know, but...I still like him, you know?”
“Even if he is an asshole?”
Asshole.
Well...he isn’t wrong.
I clench my fists and glare even harder at the ground. I’m thirty-three years old, but at this moment, I feel like a toddler - weak, s
