I rushed out of the house, jumped into my car, and drove off. The hospital parking lot was quite full, suggesting the hospital was busy. However, I didn’t care; I would have taken Erin out even if she were in the middle of an operation. Luckily, I only had to wait about five minutes for her to appear. She was wearing black trousers and a white shirt. There was nothing beautiful about her outfit. Perhaps Zoe was right when she said, in the boutique, that Erin spent so much time at the hospital that she had lost her sense of being a she-wolf. When Erin spotted me, she smiled, and I smiled back. She opened the car door and climbed in. I held her close and kissed her. “How was your day, honey?” I asked, and she kept smiling. “Dr Simms nearly killed me when I told him I needed to leave, but

