Chapter 32

I told you. I can feel you freaking out. You’re afraid. What is it? What’s happening? Tell me. If you need me, need my help, I need to know where you are. The sob that bursts from my throat as he says the words I’ve been longing to hear since I last saw him breaks me all over again. That care and need to protect me because, despite rejection, he still has the urges of a mate. I blurt out my worry and break into over-emotional terrified tears, fueled by knowing I’m a freak with blood-colored eyeballs. My EYES are RED!! I think there is something seriously wrong with me. I snort and wail into the emptiness of my room, gripped by actual devastation. Really not too focused on the fact that he’s actually talking to me because this is bigger, scarier, and overwhelming. Jesus Christ, Lorey. I thought something was happening to you. Don’t do that to me! Stop crying! The sharp Alpha tone of dominance winds me, and I instinctively obey. I choke and then cough on a tear that had been midflow when