Now it felt like I had kicked the legs out from under it.
“It’s getting late,” she said after a moment, taking a small step backward. “I should probably head home.”
My wolf immediately bristled.
The idea of her walking back into that house, back into whatever mood her stepmother might be in tonight, set my nerves on edge. At the same time another part of me was panicking for a different reason.
If she left like this, with that doubt sitting between us, there was no guarantee she would give me another chance to fix it.
“Are you sure?” I asked. “With the way your stepmother was acting earlier…”
I hesitated, then pushed through it.
“If you want, you can stay at my place tonight. Just crash there. No funny business, I promise. You’d have a safe place to sleep.”
The words felt clumsy co
