Impulsive Destiny by Cassandra Lawson

Author:Cassandra Lawson [Lawson, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty

Lexi wouldn’t say she’d been avoiding Zane this afternoon so much as avoiding everything—not an easy thing to do when they couldn’t leave the house. This was their third day here, and neither of them were handling confinement very well. Yesterday, Lexi had really enjoyed sparring with Zane, and then they’d spent the evening messing around on the computer. Okay, they’d also had a lot of really fantastic sex. It wasn’t until she’d started reading some of the history for the last hundred years that her mood had turned dismal, and she’d insisted that she needed time alone. Zane clearly doubted her, but he’d left her alone anyway after making her promise she’d tell him if she needed anything.

For now, Zane was pacing around downstairs, while she stared out the upstairs window at the strange new world she’d found herself dropped into. Zane’s self-control was impressive, considering she could tell he didn’t like being away from her. If she was being honest with herself, she also hated being away from him. Of course, she wasn’t in any mood to be honest with herself, so she was pretending she enjoyed the solitude—which was normally true.

The restless sound of Zane moving around made her feel a little guilty because he didn’t have to be cooped up in this house. No, he was only here because of her, and she honestly didn’t want him to leave. They were supposed to have a room in the training center later that day, but Connor had insisted he couldn’t arrange it for several hours. Deciding they both needed to get out, she walked down the stairs, not surprised to find him prowling around with his fists clenched at his sides. Actually, she wouldn’t have been surprised to see him prowling around in lynx form.

When he noticed her, Zane visibly relaxed and grinned. “Hey there, angel.”

“Why do you keep calling me angel?” she asked because it seemed like a strange nickname for someone like her.

“Shortly before you were dropped into that creek, my father was trying to get me to couple with a female during her heat cycle. I’d even been forced to do an awkward meeting with her, where it was obvious she didn’t want to have my young any more than I wanted to get her pregnant,” Zane began, and she had no clue what any of this had to do with her question.

“Your father must have been pretty upset when you both told him it wasn’t going to happen,” she deduced.

Zane looked confused by what she’d said. “Why would we tell him that?”

“Why would either of you start a relationship if you didn’t want to be together?” she asked. “That seems like a pretty big step with a woman you don’t know anyway, but even worse when you don’t like her. Wait! You don’t have arranged marriages, do you?”

“Shifters don’t get married in the sense you’re thinking. We mate, which I guess is similar, but more permanent. In this case, we weren’t planning on more than sex when she was in heat,” he explained with a sigh.

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