Torrent (Alpha Love - a Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Romance Book 4) Read Online Free PDF

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    “Well I wish I could say I miss you bossing me around…” Finn’s voice sounds distant on the other end of the line.
    “I can do that from here, Finn. You don’t need to worry.” The banter comes out almost automatically, but Sofie’s attention is now on Ashton.
    “Sofe? You still there?” Finn talks into the silence that Sofie hadn’t even realized was stretching out between them.
    “Yeah, um, sorry. I have to go. If anyone asks you anything about me…” She knows she doesn’t have to say it, but it’s more for Ashton’s benefit than it is for Finn’s.
    “I know, I know, I don’t know anything.” Finn sighs theatrically. “Which is an act that’s far more difficult to pull off when you have an IQ the size of North Dakota -,”
    “Bye Finn.” Sofie ends the call before he has a chance to wax lyrical on his mental capacity. She knows that whatever Ashton has come in here to say to her, it isn’t anything she wants to hear, so she’d rather just get it over and done with.
    “There’s a reason I told you not to use your phone. When I tell you to do something, I expect you to do it.” Ashton’s arms are folded across his chest and although his expression is nonplussed she can hear the anger in his voice.
    “And I did remove my SIM card from my cell, as you requested – not told – me to last night. But you said you wanted information, so that’s what I was getting.” Sofie has no intention of letting him assume that he can order her around. As he has already made clear to her, she’s not pack; he won’t allow her to be, not really.
    “Calls can be traced, Sofie. Come on, you’re smarter than that!” Ashton shakes his head and starts up his pacing – the man really can’t stand still for two minutes at a time!
    “Not on Finn’s cell! He’s worked his magic on it. Have a little faith in me, would you? You’re right, I’m not an idiot or a little girl, despite the way that you insist on treating me!” Sofie plants her hands on her hips, well aware that her eyes are flaming with anger.
    “What the hell is that supposed to mean?” Ashton’s voice is a growl.
    “It means that you’re acting like I’m going to break or fall apart if you let me do anything that’s actually helpful. You won’t share your plans with me, you won’t let me out of your sight to do reconnaissance in the town and now you won’t even let me speak to my best friend on the telephone! I’m not someone that likes being controlled, Ashton.” Her tone is icy but she’s matching him volume for volume.
    It occurs to Sofie that Lola is probably hearing every word that they’re exchanging from the other room, but she can’t bring herself to care. For someone that has always been private to a fault she was really letting go. Just another one of the ways that being with Ashton was changing her, she thinks to herself, and not for the worst. But no, she’s supposed to be angry with him, she reminds herself.
    “I’m just trying to protect you! Why is that so difficult for you to get into your thick head?” Ashton pads towards her menacingly, but her body can’t help respond to the heat of his proximity.
    The desire that she feels is automatic, second nature, but in this moment her anger is overpowering her need for him. “My thick head?” She’s vaguely aware that she’s shrieking like a fishwife but she doesn’t stop.
    “Of course, that’s the part that you zero in on!” He throws his hands up in despair of her. “You don’t care about the part where I say that I want to keep you safe, that it would kill me if anything ever happened to you!”
    The concern and softness in his eyes is enough to quench some of the fire burning in her belly, but not all of it. “I know, Ash. I know. I feel the same, if anything were to happen to you, I don’t know what I’d do.” She closes the distance between them, resting her hand on his chest, feeling the way it seems to be beating double time.
    Ashton