Jasmine

“The school called. It’s Sage,” Ryan whispered to me.

I was so single-mindedly focused on the sexy man before me that it almost didn’t register what he said.

“What?” I asked.

“It’s Sage. The school called and she’s sick and needs to be picked up. They can’t reach your mother.”

Sage was sick? She was a wolf shifter. We didn’t get sick. My fear for her trumped the ridiculous pull I felt towards the man at table five.

“I need to go.”

I turned and ran to the kitchen.

“I already heard. I called Michelle and she’s coming in early to help prep for lunch. Things are already settling down here. Go. We’ve got your back,” Candace assured me.

I hugged her quickly. “Thank you.”

I didn’t look back as I ran out the rear door of the café and to my car in the parking lot.

I was a mess a