Chapter 12

[Alexander]

I walked Melissa to her door, feigning a smile when she turned to give me a curt nod, a genuine one curving her lips. I don’t know what possessed me to do what I did, but the regret was obvious, that even she didn’t have any further thought about me going inside with her. The light in her apartment went on, and the curtains closed on her window, just as it did on her desire for me.

The wolf cries I heard in the distance didn’t stop. Although in human form, I should have been able to understand why they cried, but only managed to interpret it as a hunt. Maybe my lack of understanding was owed to the fact that I had too much on my mind as I drove back home from dropping Melissa off at her apartment.

I didn’t expect her to take rejection so easily. In the two years she worked for me, she came across as a determined woman. But even when she had the crudest thoughts of me, she never did really act on them. I supposed the human was influenced by the Alpha in me, who demanded resp