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I wended again, blocking her path just out of sight of my brethren “Jocelyn, let me take you home”

“You can’t go toback to my territory, where it’s safe You should do the same” Her jaw locked and her chin rose

“Where you go, I go,” I said slowly, reaching forward to brush the backs of my knuckles down her cheeks

“No” She shook her head, a fierce glint in her eyes “You’re not co with me I don’t want you Not if it means my life”

I sucked in a breath, but it wouldn’t stop the hee of shock that stuttered my heartbeat “You don’t mean that”

She looked me square in the eye “Look at me”

“I’ what the fuck was happening right now

“A?” She tilted her head “I don’t want you Not like this, and I have never loved you Now let o”

I waited for the tingle, the burn, the pain that cale sign that she was lyingbecause she wasn’t “You’re telling the truth”

She nodded once, then walked right past me

I blinked, struggling to gather s, then turned It didn’t matter if she didn’t love htered like the Baldwins had been Whether or not she liked it, I’d escort her back to her own territory where she’d be safe Mating guaranteed a good genetic , not love, and if it was one-sided, then I’d learn to deal with it

“Jocelyn—” I stopped,the forest

She was gone

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Jocelyn

My heart felt like a thousand tiny knives were carving it up

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