Total Eclipse of the Heart by Crystal Jordan

Author:Crystal Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

It took Jerrod the rest of the day to track Lena’s scent to an apartment building in North Hollywood. Which was a good thing because I sucked at tracking. But once I got inside the building, her scent drew me like a Lorelei to her apartment. I took a deep breath, and I could smell her in there. This was definitely the place. Lifting my shaking hand, I made myself knock firmly. I’d messed this up. I would have to mend it.

“Go away.” She probably hadn’t spoken above a normal volume, but my werewolf hearing picked up her words.

Leaning my forehead against the smooth wood, I gripped each side of the doorjamb in my hands. “I’m not going away, Lena. Please open up.”

Silence greeted me. Tears welled in my eyes. I’d hurt her. I knew it. So tough and stubborn on the outside, but vulnerable to me…and Jerrod. And I’d betrayed that with my fear and anger. “Please, my mate. Don’t deny me.”

The door snapped open, and I swayed as its support fell away from me. My hands tightened on the jamb. Rage sparked in Lena’s dark eyes. “Deny you? The way you denied me?”

All the words I’d mean to say, all the apologies I’d practiced in my head slid away. I scrambled for something—anything—to say. “We spoke to the pack. You need to go before the Alpha tomorrow, but from what he said, I’m pretty sure they’re going to accept you as a member.”

“And that makes everything okay?” She swung the door to shut it in my face. “Goodbye, Rachel.”

I caught the door in my hand, each of us applying a bit of our superhuman strength. It stayed half-open, neither of us strong enough to overpower the other. “No, it doesn’t make it all right. I just wanted you to know.”

She glanced over my shoulder into the hallway. “Where’s Jerrod?”

“Downstairs.” A weak smile curved my lips. “He’s giving me ten minutes to get my foot out of my mouth before he comes up.”

“Why bother?” Bleakness entered her eyes, and she relaxed her grip on the doorknob. “I know where his loyalties lie.”

My hand snapped around her wrist. She tensed, a shudder running through her. “With us. His loyalty is to both of us. Could you really ask him to choose? He’s mated to us both.”

She shook her head until her ebony curls whipped around her shoulders. “I know who he would choose.”

“I don’t.”

“What?” Shock flashed across her face. Good, I had her attention. Now if I could just make her listen to me, forgive me for being a royal bitch.

I shook her arm lightly. “Why do you think it would be so easy for him? He needs us both.”

“But the two of you—”

“Were incomplete without you. As much as I love Jerrod—and I do more than anything—he can’t fulfill all my needs. I want men and women. It’s always been that way for me. Always. But when Jerrod came along, I thought that was it. Game over. Fate

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