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standing in front of her. Tears streamed down her face as her reality crashed to the ground. It couldn’t be real.
    Stumbling backward, she fell over her feet and landed hard on the floor. She continued to crawl backwards until her back pressed against the wall and there was nowhere else to go. No words would come for a long time.
    He hadn’t so much as moved since he’d changed. She was almost afraid to speak, but there were so many questions and she didn’t even know where to begin. Sucking in a deep breath, she forced the words out “You really are a wolf, aren’t you? I thought…”
    He turned human just as fast. The powerful, nude body that stood before her was not the same one she’d seen when he left. “You had to know. I didn’t have a choice. Sarah, I couldn’t take you with me. It’s dangerous at times, and I knew you would be safer here. If I kept contact with you, a rival could have found out. But you had to know I planned on coming back to you. I told you the day I left that I would be back.”
    Oh, hell no. She felt the anger come back until she was sure she’d choke. “I never thought it would be almost sixteen years later, Devon. I thought you were just going to the fucking store or something! You said, “I’ll be back,” and kissed me goodbye. I was so drugged up on pain meds, I didn’t even barely remember you telling me.
    “For the first two years, I hardly left your mother’s house. You never called, never even wrote. What in the hell was I supposed to think?”
    “I’m sorry, Sarah. I am. Please, you have to forgive me. I’ll make it up to you, I promise.”
    “You left me at the most crucial time in my life. I needed you, and you disappeared. You can’t make that time up.”
    “I was just as heartbroken as you, Sarah. Never think that I didn’t mourn the loss of our child. I still do, every day! You don’t think I wonder what he or she would have looked like? I can’t even come close to children without feeling the pain of our loss. You weren’t the only one alone. If I would have stayed here, they would have found me and forced me to leave. That would have put you and my mother at risk. We’d just lost the baby. I couldn’t lose anyone else!”
    Sarah pushed herself off the floor to stand. “You could have left a note explaining things instead of leaving me to worry about whether or not you were even alive.”
    “Would you have believed a note?”
    She watched him walk over to her until only inches separated them. “No, probably not, but at least it would be something. All your mother and I knew was that you had left.”
    Fingertips traced down her jaw line, and all remnants of the devastating thoughts vanished. Something strange stirred in her insides until she rested her palms against his hard, wide chest so she wouldn’t mold her body against his. Deep down, she hated not being able to control herself.
    “Sarah, don’t fight the way you feel.” His hands ran up her back, pulling her closer. “I love you. Please tell me a part of you is still open to loving me back.”
    She quickly pulled away. Isn’t this what she spent years trying to avoid? Opening herself up to Gavin was one thing. He’d never hurt her, She could feel it. Devon on the other hand had.
    “I can’t do this right now. It’s too much. I’ll keep your secret, but I have to go.”
    Sarah quickly ran out of the apartment and back toward her own before he could stop her. She was surprised to see Gavin standing at her door with flowers. Once again, he’d come back. She couldn’t help but love his perfect timing. The last thing she wanted to think about was what she just learned. Gavin could help her with that.

Chapter 7

    “I couldn’t leave. I’m sorry. I thought I’d take you up on your offer to stay over.”
    Sarah nodded, and turned back to see Devon standing at his door. All he was wearing was a pair of shorts. The built of his body combined with the expression on his face caused her