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Kaitlin! Why the
hell did you come to me if you don’t have control over your puma?! It’s
suicidal—as you nearly found out! Wolfs and pumas are natural enemies so to
have me chasing you was a stupid idea.” He dropped to his knees beside her and
pulled her into his chest. “I nearly lost you,” he whispered.
    “S-s-sorry,” she managed to say
through her chattering teeth.
    Her eyelids fluttered closed and
she fell into a consuming blackness.
     

     
    Kaitlin shifted and winced. She
hurt everywhere.
    Opening her eyes, she instantly
knew she was alone and in an unfamiliar bed. Glancing around, memories came
back to her of the previous night and she cringed.
    She’d hoped it had all been a bad
dream but obviously not.
    “Ugh,” she groaned, rubbing a hand
over her face.
    The bed beside her showed no sign
of being slept in and she wondered where Rhys was.
    Rising from the bed she moved into
the other room and found him sat at the kitchen table. His gaze was fixed on a
point across the room and his face was tense. “Why?” He growled.
    Kaitlin shifted stance slightly.
“Why, what?”
    “Why can’t you control your puma?”
    She shrugged. What could she say?
She’d never been able to. “I don’t know.”
    “Who trained you?”
    Kaitlin frowned at him. “What’s
that got to do with it?”
    “Who?!” He shouted, his voice
taking on an inhuman rumble, startling her.
    “M-my father,” she stammered.
    Rhys let out a ferocious growl and
she shrank back from him, her fingers latching onto the door frame as she
noticed his fingers had shifted to claws, digging into the table top. “I should
have known.”
    Anger spread through her, “What’s
that supposed to mean?”
    For the first time since she’d come
out of the bedroom he looked at her. A tic was pulsing erratically in his jaw
and his eyes were dark and stormy. “Have you not wondered how I managed to stop
you from…” he broke off and swallowed, “to stop you?” He eventually finished.
    That was an easy question. “You
used your Alpha.”
    He nodded and raised a brow,
waiting for her to get what he was saying. She thought it over carefully and it
suddenly hit her like a runaway freight train.
    Her father was an Alpha! He should
have had the same control over her as Rhys had!
    “Oh my God! Why didn’t he…?”
    “I think he wanted to control you.
A female shifter is becoming rarer all the time so for him to be able to
control you, by you being afraid of shifting, he can decide who you mate with.”
    “Tito…”
    Rhys’ lip curled at the name.
“Probably in on the plan.” Kaitlin shook her head vehemently. “Cat,” he said
softly, “you heard what he said that night. He was bragging and not in a good
way.”
    Kaitlin knew he was right. Things
had always felt strange between herself and Tito; like it had been planned. Her
whole life suddenly seemed like a lie. Closing her eyes she dropped her head
into her hands.
    “Cat…Kaitlin…I’m sorry you had to
find out like this.”
    The whole thing was playing havoc
with her head the more she thought things through and she could feel a headache
coming on, so decided to change the subject, mumbling through her fingers,
“Where did you sleep last night?”
    His amber eyes blinked slowly,
thrown by the sudden change in conversation. “I didn’t sleep.”
    “You didn’t? Not at all?” Grimacing,
she said softly, “Afraid I might throw myself off a cliff?”
    His voice was soft, “You were
unconscious so that wouldn’t have happened.”
    But he’d obviously thought about
it!
    Ugh, could she have made a bigger
fool of herself last night? In front of her supposed mate as well.
    Remembering that gave her an idea.
It was still early and her scent was still lingering in the air. She eyed him
appreciatively. “Since we didn’t get around to it last night…why don’t we pick
up where we left off?”
    Rhys’ eyes cooled considerably. “I
don’t think that’s a good idea. We should be