Diane was once now not impressed. "Seriously, Tryson? You think because we bonded I'm suddenly, what, a possession you can just withhold from different people?"
"No!" he growled thru his teeth, eyes nevertheless closed in opposition to the pain. "Of path not."
"Then grow up."
"This isn't always an difficulty of being juvenile," he spat, then took a breath and opened his eyes to find hers. "The new bond is… it makes me hyper-aware of you, Diane . Drives me to maintain you safe."
"You cannot expect me no longer to meet with and talk to men. Apparently, I'm alpha! And that is simply all it really is here! I am going to have to discuss to males, Tryson. Meet with them. Eat with them. Be around them, and—"
"There is no want for you to be comforting them," he growled. Then his whole body s
