Coyote Law by Rhian Cahill

Author:Rhian Cahill [Cahill, Rhian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rhian Cahill

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Dale sucked in a breath and held it as Tatum’s words wrapped around his heart and squeezed. He didn’t deserve her love. He’d abandoned her when he should have protected her—supported her. Instead of running away to get his head on straight, he should have held her close, leaned on her to help him through his grief.

“I’m sorry.” He reached up and brushed a finger over her cheekbone. “I should never have left.”

“No. You needed to get out of the city, I understand that, but you should have talked to me. Taken me with you.”

He closed his eyes. “Yes. I should have.”

“Next time.”

His eyes shot open. “No. There won’t be a next time. I’m never leaving you again, Tay. You have my word on that.”

She smiled. “Just so you know, if you did go, I’d follow.”

“You already did.”

“Ha. Not at first.”

“I don’t think badly of you because you didn’t come after me. Not with the way I left.”

“I was mad about that in the beginning. But as the days passed and I thought about where you were, I knew you’d gone where you needed to be. When you came back then left again…well, I figured that was goodbye. I was really mad then. So angry I tried to ignore the changes in my body, to my scent, until Tavia said something. Her words and the pregnancy test she shoved into my hands helped me face reality. And then I knew I couldn’t accept that as goodbye. If you were done with me, I needed to hear you say it.”

“I’ll never be done with you.”

“Good.”

“How about this? If either of us feels the need to go, for any reason, we say so. No more hiding how we feel or what we’re thinking. I know that should be a given between mates but our mating was different than others and I think we, I, let that difference get in the way of what we are to each other. I hope you can forgive me, Tay, but I promise you, I’ll spend every day for the rest of my life making it up to you.”

“There’s nothing to forgive. I know you; you didn’t deliberately set out to hurt me. We were both in a bad place after Cade, struggling to find our way, not knowing how to reach each other. We let ourselves forget the most important thing we had. Each other. Instead we focused on what we’d lost.”

“Cade.”

A small smile curved her lips. “Yes. Cade.”

“Come here.” He pulled her into his arms and snuggled her against his chest. “I’ll never forget what we have again,” he promised.

“I don’t love you because I loved Cade. I love you for you, Dale. My connection to each of you is separate and not reliant on the other.”

“I didn’t think it was. Except so much of myself was tied up in my connection to Cade. For so long I’ve thought of him as part of me. It took me a while to understand I’m still me without him.

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