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really. Not to me.
    The soda though, that’s fun. Sugary
bubbly fun and I can take a shot at burping the alphabet if I drink it fast
enough. Not really a trick I want to show Jake though. It’s neither romantic
nor ladylike and today is a day for both of those.
    I rub my feet together. They’re
getting a little cold. Most wolves are always hot and Jake is one of them but
I’m usually colder than wolves. I was always hotter than humans though. In
college, I was still wearing short sleeves and sandals when the others were
mostly in sweaters and corduroy. I wrap the robe tighter around me when the air
conditioning comes on.
    We’ve finished with the bread and
cheese. He puts the dome back on it and puts the fruit back in the fridge. He
takes my pear core and puts it under the sink. The trash can must be there. I’m
suddenly nervous. This is it. He’ll claim me next. I shiver. I wonder if he
knows I’m a virgin. I wonder if he can sense it or if I should tell him. I
think that it’s something that he should know before we get started but I’m not
sure how to say it. ‘I’ve never been fucked before so don’t hurt me.’ No. I
don’t think he’ll hurt me anyway. It’s Jake.
    He holds out a hand to me and I
take it. He’s leaving the kitchen and heading back to the bedroom. His cell
phone rings and he pulls it out of his pocket to look at it. He lets go of my
hand and answers it. I wander over to the blinds in the living room and push
two apart to get a better view. There’s a balcony but I won’t go out yet. I
look out over the skyline. It’s not a huge city but next to the town where I
grew up it’s gigantic. Traffic is buzzing below and I see a trail of ruby tail
lights moving like ants in a parade beneath me. That’s not for me. If I had to
drive in that every day the wolf would break out and make a run for it.
    He’s moving down the hall to his
office so I follow him. Jake closes the door softly behind him. Maybe it’s
private. I narrow my eyes and think about that but I keep walking. If I go down
this hall to the end and turn I think I’ll be in the bedroom. I can crawl back
under the quilt where it’s warm. I follow the hall, I reach the end and turn.
I’m in a smaller room than the bedroom that I remember. I feel for a light
switch and flip it up.
    It’s full of clothes. Women’s
clothes. “What the heck is this?” I ask myself. I touch some of them. There are
silks and woolens. There are doors, a double set of doors. I open them and dear
God I have never seen so many shoes. They’re all the same size but every color
imaginable. I exhale.
    Who is she? Who is the woman that
belongs to all of these clothes? She must have lived here. She must be
important to him for him to have kept this. I wonder if he’s come for me
because she’s gone. I feel sorry for her. She must’ve died to have left all of
these beautiful things behind. I feel sorry for him too. To have lost someone,
a person that you loved so much that you can’t empty their closet. I wonder if
Dad has started cleaning out Mom’s things. A tear makes its way down my cheek
at that thought and for Jake and the absent woman. Am I just a replacement for
her? A runner up. He said that he knew the moment he saw me but now there’s
her. Why would he lie?
    “Damn it Jane.” He scolds and I
whirl around. I’m caught snooping. I feel utter shame at my intruding where I
don’t belong and I my cheeks heat. Why didn’t I hear him coming? My wolf is off
her game. “You ruined my surprise.” I give him a look that says both ‘huh?’ and
‘oh shit’ all at once. He comes to me and puts his hands on my shoulders. “Do
you like it?”
    “What?” He grins. I shrug. I feel
stupid right now. Jake has an uncanny ability to make me feel stupid. He’s been
doing it for years. He’s smarter than I am and we both know it. When I was in
school, all of my schools, I always knew that I was probably the smartest
person in the room. Grades and