Gray left Alyssa alone for the first time in three days. He didn’t like it. The tiger inside pressed at his skin, searching for a shift, in agitation.
“She’s fine. Try and focus on what we’re doing,” Stripes said.
“She’s alone.”
“Tynder is with her. She’s far from alone. If she can ever get him to shut up then we might owe her big time.”
“She’s great, isn’t she?” he said with a smile.
“She’s fantastic. I’m not sure what she did to make you so receptive lately.”
He frowned.
“What do you mean?”
Stripes chuckled.
“You have never done more than grunt a word or two. You don’t hold long conversations and you don’t like people. But for the past few days you’ve been talking, interacting and communicating more than you have in the past ten years.”
He didn’t realize he’d changed so much si
