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something, I guess,” he typed.
    “I need to talk to you,” she texted back.
    “Isn’t that what you’re doing?”
    “I need to talk in person.”
    “When?”
    “Soon.”

7
    D rew was obviously angry. How would he feel when she showed up at his doorstep nine months pregnant? She grimaced at the thought of confronting him. Maybe driving to Fate Mountain was a bad idea. Drew hated her, and she didn’t blame him.
    She knew what she had done. She was Drew’s fated mate, and she’d asked him to mark her. Right afterwards, she’d run away and hid from the world. That had been a really shitty thing to do.
    Unlike humans, shifters were only happy with their fated mates. No one else but the perfect match would do. Humans might wonder for a long time if someone was right for them; shifters knew right away. Even their human mates knew.
    Quinn could feel her connection to Drew down to her bones the night they spent together. Her entire body had been filled up with his pheromones, and she’d been drenched in him. He had become her everything.
    It had all happened so fast, she couldn’t trust it. Nothing in her experience had ever prepared her for such an intense connection with another person.
    In all her life, Quinn had never been as terrified as the morning she’d woken up in Drew’s bed with his mark on her neck. It was like waking up in a nightmare. So she’d run. What else was she supposed to do? Stay on Fate Mountain and become Drew’s mail-order bride?
    Quinn hadn’t even been serious about a long term relationship when she’d agreed to the date with Drew. By the end of the night, she’d found herself under the expectation of a lifelong bond. She’d been far too freaked out to think straight the next morning.
    Now, after all this time in hiding, she needed his help. Quinn felt utterly vulnerable and alone. If Drew rejected her and the baby, what would she do? She didn’t have enough money to make any more mortgage payments on her condo. If she didn’t figure something out fast, it would end up being foreclosed. She had to figure something out fast, or it would all come crashing down around her ears.
    Quinn had to admit to herself that she might actually want to make things work with Drew. He was her baby’s father. And he was her fated mate. The feelings she’d had that night weren’t a lie. They had been very real. They were so real Quinn couldn’t accept them. She’d had a long time to think and search herself, and she realized that Drew might actually be the right guy for her.
    She didn’t know exactly why she was beginning to think that. Maybe it was the pregnancy hormones, or the fact that she was pretty much destitute. She wouldn’t know for sure until she saw him again.
    Quinn took the turn off from Portland onto the highway toward Fate Mountain. She’d already been sitting behind the wheel for a few hours and was getting tired. Luckily, Fate Mountain was only another hour away. Her mind played over what would happened when she arrived. She imagined Drew running to her and wrapping her in his arms. That probably wasn’t going to happen.
    Her other imaginings weren’t quite so sunny. She saw an image of Drew turning away from her and slamming the door in her face. That was much more likely to happen. What would she do if it did? Her only other option was to go back to Portland and try to get her job back. She’d messed up her career so royally, she didn’t think there was anything to go back to. She’d left her job as a PR executive without any notice. Her firm was pissed and would probably give her a terrible reference to any other firm in town.
    She’d been thinking about going out on her own for quite some time, but right now she just didn’t have the cash. Everything was tied up in the condo, and she was on the verge of losing that too.
    Quinn had always been a bit of a wild child and a party girl, but she’d never been totally irresponsible. In college, she’d been a good