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Authors: Holley Trent
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He flashed Stephanie one of those bashful grins and pulled her onto his lap. “So you’re okay with me letting you do all the talking?”
“As long as you’re not hiding from me.”
“I’d never hide from you. Not me or my wolf. You make me feel safe.”
“Me?”
“Mm-hmm. You feel like home. I haven’t had that in a very long time. I’d be stupid to hide from that.”
“You’re definitely not stupid.”
“I don’t know about that. I know I’m lucky, though. I don’t know what I did to deserve you.”
“Probably about as much as I did to deserve you. Since I’m here, why don’t you pull up your homework? I’ll watch the monitors, and you can fix your sentences.”
“Okay.” He switched one of the screens to a browser display and navigated to his online documents. “I figured out what kind of degree I want to get.”
“What?” She squinted at moving speck on one of the screens. It turned out to just be a cat walking past the mansion steps. Cute little thing.
We should get a cat.
Something to tangle up Darius’s feet when he walked and make him swear in that hilarious way he did. He was so oddly eloquent in that one way.
She laughed even thinking it, then kissed his furrowed brow. He probably thought she was nuts, which was a little true, if she was being honest.
“Uh. Computer science. The pack needs to use technology more efficiently in our jobs. I think I can help with that.”
And he would probably have less face time with the public. A perfect solution.
“Just need to run it past Alpha.”
“He’ll say yes,” she said confidently.
“How do you know?”
“I brought him lunch. He owes me a favor.” She winked, and he blushed like a teenaged boy. A shy, gentle, lone wolf.
Her
lone wolf.
He didn’t need changing, and neither did she.
The End
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Holley Trent is a Carolina girl gone west. Raised in rural coastal North Carolina, she’s a lady with Southern sensibilities, but in 2011 her adventurous spirit drove her to Colorado for new experiences.
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LONER
Copyright © 2015 by Holley Trent
Cover art credits:
Couple - © barelko.com (Dollar Photo Club)
Wolf - © adore (Dollar Photo Club)
Copy edits by K. Stein, Missed Period Editing
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LONER
is a work of fiction. Names, places, entities, and scenarios in this book are products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.
