Wolf Girl (Wolf Girl, #1)(40)

My heart hammered in my chest as I ignored the footfalls and earthy scent of sexy almost-alpha male. I’d singlehandedly avoided being alone with him for two weeks, but I guess my time was up.

“Demi?” His voice held mock shock, “Weird seeing you here. We’ve got to stop meeting like this.”

I positioned a pin between my fingers and spun, pointing it at him threateningly. “You’re pre-med. You have no classes in this building, which means you’re stalking me.”

His face fell and he sighed deeply as he stared at the cuffs on my wrists. “Demi, you’ve been ignoring me…”

I scoffed. “Sawyer, you imprisoned me!” I held up a cuffed arm and shook it in front of his face.

He stepped closer to me and I held the pin up, narrowing my gaze at him.

He produced his arm, shoving it right in front of my face. “Go ahead. Stab me if it will make you feel better.”

I snort-laughed, I couldn’t help it. He was funny and fucking adorable. “Eugene will kill me.” I gestured to the giant man standing thirty paces back who was trying to pretend he wasn’t looking at us.

Sawyer shook his head. “No. I deserve it. Quick, before I change my mind.” He mock flinched as if anticipating great pain.

Part of me really wanted to drive this pin into his fucking arm for what he did to me and my wolf.

So I did.

Without thinking, I rammed the pin into his arm, only stopping when he hissed. We both yanked back at the same time.

“Holy shit! You really stabbed me.” He looked at me with half wonder, half amusement.

I snorted, falling into peals of laughter, and looked at the end of the pin. “This has your blood on it. I could take it to a witch and make a nice voodoo doll to cause you even more pain.”

A seriousness clouded his face. “Oh, Demi, nothing would cause me more pain than knowing I hurt you and your wolf.”

My gaze went to the red pinprick dot of blood on his arm which had already crusted over and healed. He reached out, slowly, giving me time to back away, and grasped the bottom of my chin, forcing me to look into his eyes. “Will you let me explain? Meet me for dinner tonight?” He ran his thumb over my bottom lip and I swallowed hard.

I knew what he was going to say, that he was trying to protect me. I’d read the book page. It said that I should be put to death; they even put it in the bylaws. But to have him force the cuffs on me, against my will, it was like being raped all over again.

“There’s more you need to know…” He looked over his shoulder to make sure we were still alone. “I’ve got one shot at picking the perfect mate and I don’t want to fuck that up with you.”

The air charged with electricity.

Wait, what? What did that mean? That he thought I might be the perfect mate?

My head spun with his words as he leaned in and whispered into my ear. “Meet me tonight? My dorm? I’ll cook for you. Don’t make me beg. I will if I have to.”

There was something so incredibly sexy about a dominant future alpha saying they would beg for you. With a shaky breath, I nodded and he started to pull away, which made me realize I didn’t want him to go. His smell, his heat, his everything. I needed it.

I wrapped my fingers behind his neck, crushing my lips to his. A moan let loose from his throat as I slipped my tongue into his mouth and stroked against his own. Reaching out with my teeth, I nipped his bottom lip harder than I normally would and then pulled back to meet his searing blue eyes. “If you ever force something on me again without talking to me first…” I shoved one of my cuffs in his face to indicate what I meant. “I’m done.”

His brow furrowed. “If it means I’ve saved your life, then it’s a risk I’m willing to take.”

Now it was my turn to furrow my brow. Did he really think someone would kill me because of what I was? His dad, his sweet dad who I’d met and seemed as alpha as a stuffed teddy bear would kill me over some bylaw? But the blazing yellow protective eyes that stared back at me said yes, he did believe that, and maybe I should too.

Fuck.

I released him and he plucked the pin out of my fingers. “I’ll be confiscating this, Miss Calloway. No voodoo dolls for you. I’ll see you tonight. After Sage’s surprise.”

I grinned and watched him walk away, more confused than ever before. How did he know about Sage’s surprise? I thought they weren’t talking.

Maybe Sawyer knew more than he let on and maybe he had saved my life. Maybe binding my wolf had stopped the scent or whatever was leading the vampires to me. Shit, I didn’t know what to think anymore. But I couldn’t wait until dinnertime to find out.





The drive to the Dark Forest took about half an hour. It was beautiful to weave through the mountains, houses topped high on the hills, verdant green trees dotting the landscape. When we reached a small access road, the school bus took a hard left and I clutched my seat to keep from tipping into Walsh.

“Now, the waterfall assignment is broad. I don’t want to stifle anyone’s creativity, so if you want to hike to the top and take a picture looking down in a bird’s eye view or whatever, it’s fine with us.” Professor Woods looked at Professor Hines, who shared a conspiratorial wink. They would make a cute couple. Lord knows they were always batting eyes at each other.