“This is the real you, Christie. Once the mating call has been heeded, things will calm down,” he reasoned. “You’ll still need me as much as I’ll need you, but the desperation won’t be there so long as we’re not apart for long. But this is the you that was always meant to be. Since your first steps, you’ve been walking toward me, darlin’. You just didn’t know it.”
“Is this really happening?” she whispered, peering up at him again. “I mean, you really are a…”
“Yeah, I’m a Shifter, Christie. And you were born to be a Shifter’s mate. My mate.”
“I-I don’t know anything about Shifters,” she argued. “Nothing save for what I’ve read in books.”
He snorted at that. “Don’t worry about it. You’ll learn. Not that there’s much to learn. We’re deceptively simple creatures. Plus, my friend is newly m
