Chapter 44

"I'm trying to help you, Rose, don't make this harder than it has to be. I need you home, I will explain things there. I need to get you home, it will calm both of us down." He was talking through clenched teeth with his hands fisted at his side.

“I am calm."

And She was because what she was asking made perfect rational sense. He gave her a twisted smirk that made something drop in her stomach, and she held in a shiver.

"I wasn't talking about you," he said,

"Oh."

Was all she could say. Zander never spoke much of his wolf, but she could tell by the time she have spent with him that although he hid it, Zander was more animal than man, which was odd because a human and their wolf were always equal, but not him. He's proven it time and time again to her.

He acts on instinct, he's primal and no doubt lethal . . . It worried her.

He would be a force to work with if his wolf was in control and she still wasn't even used to Zander in control.

She needed him calm.

"Fine. But I