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Chapter 9
What was it with this place that people had to be up at all hours? Going home to the pack house after a long night was silent usually unless someone’s mate just about had it over something stupid. But this apartment seemed like it was alive all the time. Her stoop was aggressive. Just beyond the foyer was crowded with people just hanging out. Whether they were looking to start their night or end it didn’t matter. Just the fact that they were there and nosy kicked his protective state into higher gear.
It bothered him that Aislyn knew and that she dealt with this regularly.
“Your kinds’ no good here,'' someone slurred in their direction, and Aislyn only tugged harder on his hand.
“It’s not worth it,” she muttered to him.
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Asking how he destroyed the shower would have at least taken the pressure to function off of her, but oddly, Derek’s entirely too discrete movements were ruining her.She was going to die…It was all in the way he stood, carefully in her space that told her all she had to know about what he did. It certainly had nothing to do with what she did.“I’ve only got one strainer,” Aislyn supplied, finally upright. “I guess I should get another, so you have one too,” she babbled before facing him.Aislyn hoped the small talk would at least give her an idea of his status here in her apartment, where she found it more and more acceptable that he’d just stay.
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