To the Edge and Back [The Royal Wolves] (Siren Publishing Allure) Read Online Free PDF Page A

to it the wet daydreams she had been having about that man, and it was enough to make her grind her teeth.
    Reaching out, he picked the money up again and held it up between two fingers in front of her face. “Why won’t you just accept someone’s help?” he asked quietly. He knew from what the extremely chatty driver had told him that she had no family and that she was very much determined to make it on her own in the world.
    Remaining as he was even when she made to move around him, which was impossible considering where he stood in the doorway, he shook his head. “Sometimes people do things out of the goodness of their hearts, Miss Tremayne. Why are you so determined to see the glass half-empty and assume they are all doing something for you to gain something in return?” Janos didn’t know where the question came from, but now it was of paramount importance that she answer it.
    Since meeting her, all he had really were questions, and each answer he figured out or got from her brought up another ten questions. Not like him. He normally had zero interest in humans, but this little female was tugging at him in a way he never thought possible. Of course that might have had something to do with his very interesting dream the previous afternoon, late last night, and then again when he’d been daydreaming as the machine had tried to eat his totals for the previous night.
    She thought about his question and sighed finally as she said, “I won’t and can’t accept other people’s help because everything comes with a price.” When he went to argue, she shook and bowed her head. “The driver had no right to discuss anything about me, especially when he has never even said more than boo to me. I know nothing about him and in the end he knows nothing about me. You said that I see the glass as half-empty and assume that people are only doing things for gain.” Rolling her eyes, she looked up at him. “You more than any other should know that humans as a whole only do things for gain.”
    Grinding his teeth together, he took a steadying breath before he said anything. “I may have been a bit nosy with the driver, so don’t take it out on him. I can be persuasive when I want to be. As for the humans, I do know that they do anything and everything if it’s got some form of monetary compensation at the end. But I also know that not all humans are that way. Some are actually good of heart and soul.”
    Leaning in slightly, he caught her eyes and held her gaze. “But you shouldn’t assume you know me by lumping me in with humans, Miss Tremayne, especially since the rumor mill should have at least told you…I’m not human.”
    Letting his eyes change just enough that she’d get the point, he straightened. “If I said I did it to help, then that’s the truth. I don’t lie, unlike most of your species.” Stepping to the side, he held out the money to her. “Take it or leave it but don’t do it because you think I want something when I’ve never once indicated I did.” Putting the money into her hand once more, he moved away mainly to get away from the temptation of her.
    She once more put the money on the couch and turned on her heel, moving out of the office as quickly as she could. He was a temptation. Even though he was a Wolf, he was still the man she had been lusting and dreaming after, and it was killing her to be close to him.
    He watched her leave and shook his head. She’d gone and gotten herself freaked out. “Typical,” he sighed as he turned back to the machine and smacked it. Why did women have to be so damned stubborn? Grinning suddenly, he shook his head. That probably was the question of the ages right there.
    Out the door and on fleet feet she raced for the bus stop. She was not one of the people he lumped her with. She didn’t do anything and everything for money. Sure, she worked a job for money, but she didn’t ever, ever step on or harm anyone in the process. She had her own personal