Loneliness

[Hyacinth]

My body feels warm all over as I nod my acceptance while at the same time I feel a cold chill as if a cloud were sitting over my head.

Regardless of what he says, Ashlynd will have a problem with this. It doesn’t matter that he says we are “just friends,” she will see this as a date.

“Forget about that,” a voice in my head says, “follow your heart.”

“Follow my heart,” I whisper. He looks up confused. “What? Were you saying something?”

“No,” I lie, grinning.

Part of me knows that if I wanted to be smart, I’d stay far far away from him, just like she warned me. Instead I let him guide me out of the office and out into the sunshine.

I don’t know what I was expecting from lunch with the Alpha. Maybe someplace fancy with too many forks. It was refreshing when he took me to his favorite deli instead. The wolf behind the counter was a connoisseur of fine lunch meats and I soon found myself rejecting my sad peanut butter sandwich for a beautiful double-fisted sub sandwich