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everything that you
could to make me feel your rejection.  She struggled again ineffectively.
    “I know.  I…damn
it.  I didn’t mean any of it.  I know that I made you angry but I just didn’t
know how to…”  He closed his eyes and took a calming breath.
    “Do you remember
the last week that we lived together?  You marched across my floor with muddy
boots not once, not twice but six times Jordan and then you ruined one of the
two things that my Grams left me.  You knew how much she meant to me, you knew
she was the only one that ever made me feel like someone loved me and you
stomped your nasty muddy boots over my rug.  You knew how much I loved that rug
and you ruined it.  Look at it!”  She pointed down.  Her voice was cruel and
nasty as he glanced down at the beige rug with the big pink and yellow roses on
it.  Pink and yellow roses stained with red clay.  He grimaced.  He’d done
that.  He ruined something that she loved.  He’d been cruel and inconsiderate
that night, many nights.  “You shit on everything I had worth having Jordan. 
You didn’t care about my feelings then and you don’t care now.  You’re the
alpha and you’ve found yourself in a mess that you can’t figure out.  You want
me to get you out of it just like when we were young and you couldn’t do your
homework.  No.  I reject you Jordan Giroux.  I didn’t say the words before but
I will now.  I reject you and your pack.  Get out of my place Jordan and don’t you
ever come back here.” 
    “You can’t live on
your own without a pack.  Who will protect you?  Who will take care of you?” 
His eyes flashed dangerously at her.  His chest heaved and he was near to
losing control of his wolf. 
    “It’s funny Jordan
but living on my own doesn’t feel much different than living with you.”  She
hissed calmly but her pulse pounded at the base of her throat.  “Except that
there’s less cooking and less mopping.”  She’d had enough of this and of him.
    “If there’s no one
to protect you Lettie, things can happen to you.  Men can do things to you.” 
He ground his hips viciously into hers and she sneered at him.  “If there’s no
one to take care of you, a man could do anything that he wanted to you.”  Her
face calmed and she whispered.
    “Go ahead Jordan. 
You’ve taken everything else, take my dignity too, and then you’ll have it
all.  You make me understand suicide.”  Lettie showed him her throat.  If he wanted,
he could rip it out and end it all.  Jordan swallowed and pushed off of her. 
He stood and turned on one heel but stopped when he got to the door.  He didn’t
turn around but his voice was eerily calm when he spoke.
    “I’m sorry for
what it’s worth Colette.  I do love you and I always will.  I’ll let you have
your life but if you ever come to your senses and change your mind, you know
where to find me.”  He stepped through the doorway and closed the door
quietly.  Lettie shuddered.  She’d never seen him like that, utterly defeated. 
Lettie thought she would feel triumphant but she didn’t.  It made her feel
empty but it was finally over.  His mark was fading.  She could feel it leaving
her skin.  Hurrying to the mirror and pulling her shirt aside she watched it
disappear.  She was free.

Chapter Four
     
    Lettie opened her
door and shifted into her wolf.  It was nearly one and someone was in the
grocery store below.  The store closed hours ago.  Whoever it was would get a
shock.  Most robbers wouldn’t count on running into a wolf when breaking into a
grocery store.  She’d already called Mister Thompson and he was calling the
police.  She loped down the stairs and up the diaper aisle.  The coffee aisle
would’ve been closer, but she couldn’t scent in that aisle, only coffee would
fill her nose.  Lettie crept around a corner and met three enormous wolves. 
She was the one who was shocked instead.  The biggest turned and snarled