Mated With A Grey

Or mated with a grey, and then was murdered. Even so, she was my responsibility."

"Your father's, since he was still alive," Cassie said.

"My father was disabled."

"Yet she listened to him, not you. What if your father had moved the family?"

Axel Ash nodded, but the pain was still reflected in his expression.

"It wasn't your fault," Cassie said again, softly, with feeling.

"I came here to live, away from my home in Colorado, the life of a loner in the wilderness, a mountain man."

"Poseidon," she said under her breath.

"What?"

She took a deep breath and shook her head. "A mountain man. Or nature lover. That's what I thought you were when I saw you at the lake." And Poseidon, god-like, seductive, edible.

"I had been a mountain man, scruffy, scraggly beard, long hair."

She smiled.

He chuckled. "I looked like a wolf even without my fur coat on."