[Isolde]
His fingers stopped moving immediately.
He stared at me with such complete, open shock that it would have been funny under different circumstances. Like I'd just announced I could fly or had won the lottery or something equally impossible.
Even I was surprised by my own honesty. Usually, I made a point of not feeding his ego. He probably heard how attractive he was everywhere he went: from every woman who crossed his path, from pack members trying to curry favour, from anyone with functioning eyes who wanted to sleep with him.
His head was already plenty inflated without my contributions.
But saying he wasn't attractive would be lying. And right now, in this moment, that lie felt impossible to maintain.
That was why sometimes... I still couldn't quite believe that the man si
