“Ruby has quite a life. She’s an important person to many people that I hold near and dear.”
“Lou,” Ethan said. “If you want to warn me away or to tell me that if I hurt her, you’ll come after me, save your breath. I already know what happens to a wolf shifter when he crosses a paranormal creature. I’m not ready to repeat the experience for myself. What I feel for Ruby is real, whether she wants to believe it or not. That’s beside the point, though. She wants to have kids. A family. She won’t leave her work behind if it means she has to train her children to take her place.”
Ethan didn’t know Lou enough to be certain, but it sure looked like this new information was hurting him.
“Little Ruby wants to quit?”
Ethan nodded. “Yeah. She wants it all. A life, a home with the white picket fen
