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heading back.” He stood. “Get your
stuff and we’ll go.”
    Kaitlin stood there feeling like a
failure. Both as a woman and a shifter.
    What did it say about her if she
couldn't even tempt her mate into bed?
    Fighting back tears, she collected
her belongings, went outside and climbed in the SUV, not daring to look at him
in case the dam broke inside her.

 
    Chapter 7
     
    Two hours later the car pulled up
on the outskirts of the cat clan boundary and she reached for the handle, eager
to get away.
    “Wait.”
    She hesitated for a second, her
fingers still holding the door catch. “Why? So you can have another go at me?”
    Rhys sighed, “I wasn’t angry with
you. It was your father—”
    Pulling the handle, she pushed the
door open and climbed out. “Whatever,” she muttered, still too upset to listen
and slammed the door before starting a brisk walk down the street.
    “Kaitlin,” he called, “wait up.”
    If anything she sped up, hoping
he’d be deterred by the thought of running into a group of cat shifters. She
heard the car door thud shut and then footsteps closing in behind her.
    Or not, she thought grimly.
    “Go away.”
    “No.”
    “Rhys!”
    He grabbed her arm and pulled her
around to face him. “We need to talk about this.”
    “About what? The fact that I’m a
failure?”
    Rhys glared at her. “You are not a failure!”
    She snorted and wrenched her arm
out of his hold. “Just leave me alone!”
    Turning, she walked away quickly,
feeling the calming effect as she passed over the boundary and into the cat
clan compound. Taking a deep breath, she tried to forget about the man she’d
just left on the other side.
    It didn’t stop her hearing his
curse or the rev of his car’s engine as he drove off.
    “Bastard!” She muttered darkly.
     

     
    Kaitlin stopped off at Misha’s on
the way home so she could calm down. Her mum would smell the anger rolling off
her and jump to conclusions while her dad would probably question it at length.
    Especially after what she’d found
out.
    “Ugh!” She cried, suddenly frustrated
with everything. The magazine she’d been looking at flew across the room to
thud against the wall.
    Misha glanced across at her but
said nothing. She was still pissed off at her about that night at the club and
they’d barely spoken since she’d arrived. Misha was laid on her double bed
while Kaitlin was sat on the plush two-seater sofa on the far side of the room.
    Dropping her head into her palms
she swore at length.
    Her friend sighed loudly and shut
the magazine she’d been studying with a snap. “What’s up?”
    “Everything,” she muttered. Her
friend snorted. “My life is seriously fucked up, right now.”
    “If you say so, Kait.”
    She lifted her head to glare at her
best friend. “Look. I found something out about my dad and Tito. Trust me, it’s
fucked up.”
    “They’re not…?” Misha asked, eyes
wide.
    “What?—No!”
    Her friend got up and padded across
to sit on the seat beside her, tucking her legs beneath her so she was
comfortable. “Then what?”
    Kaitlin hesitated, for a second
wondering if her dad had orchestrated her having Misha as her best friend,
before answering. “My dad’s been controlling my life since I was knee high,
including who I…become involved with.”
    “Tito’s under your dad’s thumb?”
    “Yes.”
    “Holy shit!”
    Kaitlin grimaced. “My thoughts
exactly.”
    “What are you going to do?” Misha
asked, her eyes wide.
    She shrugged. “I have no idea.”
    Her friend bit her lip and shot her
a curious look. “So if you weren’t with Tito last night, were you with…?” The
wolf .
    Kaitlin groaned. “Yeah, that was
one big disaster.”
    Misha grinned, “I’m sure it wasn’t
that bad.”
    “No, it was worse. My puma tried to
commit suicide.”
    Although Misha was her best friend,
she’d never told her about her issues controlling her animal. She’d never told anyone .
She was worried it would make her