Chapter Thirty Seven

Seconds later Doctor left his apartment.

“What are you thinking?” i asked.

Ethan moved around the sofa, tugging me onto his lap. “I don’t like his lack of knowledge, and yet we call him a doctor. What I also want to know is where others are.”

He stroked my thigh, sending tingling sensation shot through my body.

I snuggled in against him, pressing my palm against his heart. Ethan surrounded me with warmth.

“What if the mating helps?” I asked.

“I don’t know, Emma. I don’t want to put you at unnecessary risk. I would never change you.” He kissed the top of my head.

Opening my eyes, i stared at his chest. In the past year Ethan had shown me more love and affection than the woman I called a mother had in her whole life. we hadn’t slept together, and yet he left me feeling completely whole.

Tucking some hair behind my ear, I spilled the truth out for him to hear.

“It was my mom,” i said.

“What, baby?”

“My mom, she was always mean growing up, but she’d hide it away from Dad. He never knew th